Commodity based money backed by fiat currency - sounds sorta like modified fractional banking to me.
If the US is hit by hyper-inflation as feared by some the coins are fairly safe. The metals used in producing our coinage will increase in value...
Daggarjon - "dunno who your talking about... but its not me. Regardless of if something affects me personaly.. if its right, fine... if its not,...
I would like to read the proposed legislation - what is the bill #.
True some increased value arises from collector's fascination of the error which in turn the increased value captures tha fascination of...
Didn't ring the transaction up? Hum sounds like a sales and income tax dodge to me. I bet inventory shrinkage is well above average in that store.
I remember an afternoon many years ago under the guise of deer hunting my father and I having a discussion of many pointless topics while in the...
Coleguy - I suspect a significant factor concerning profitability of the mines you are speaking of can be traced to environmental compliance....
I posted this fact recently in another thread. The total amount of gold mined throughout history is estimated to be about 160,000 tonnes. To...
I am some what confused. When Gold reached it's high water mark in March of 2008 @ over $1,000.00 an ounce The exchange rate was $2.01990...
Pictures really are not good enough to draw a conclusion. 1931-S Buffalo had a fairly low mintage - somewhere around 1.2 million. With a mintage...
Just a gold standard inquiry. The total amount of gold ever mined is estimated at about 160,000 tonnes which based on the current price would...
The US mint is probably the largest single consumer of zinc. Replace zinc with another metal in the production of the cent and zinc will fall...
US coinage that are attributed to specific working dies or die pairs. Based on the growth in China's and India's middle class and the...
As gold and silver tanked over the last 2 days - what happened to the US Dollar?
In most instances wouldn't the selling price be its cost adjusted for inflation? Assuming you sell it at FMV which is equal to the same amount of...
I am confused on the concept of sub-standard collection. Can someone give me a definition?
I don't think it is 001 either but the photos on coppercoins are MDS. Looking at the photo of the "W" of the coin submitted - I see what maybe...
US Coin silver is manufactured and alloyed within very strict tolerances. Therefore in most applications it does not have to be refined. You can...
There are exceptions but rule of thumb An ERROR is an anomaly on the coin attributable to the manufacturing process of the coin. A VARIETY is...
Separate names with a comma.
