BTW, thanks for starting this thread! A lot here to digest. (Pun intended, I guess; in chemistry, "digest" means to break a substance down by heat...
OK, I'm curious about this, and here's one of the first links my search turned up: New Safeclean coin cleaner AARRRGGG! — Collectors Universe...
Well, there is only one world whose coins are widely collected at present -- at least as far as we know...
"Lucky finds" are kinda my thing; the joy of the hunt is probably my main motivation in the hobby, and since I was raised a cheapskate, it's only...
Found in a bag of junk/cull coins: [IMG] In its retirement home, prior to selling for several times the cost of the entire bag: [IMG] One of...
Without knowing who in particular we're talking about, I assume it's just someone with an obsessive interest and absolutely no ability to perceive...
This was the other hobby-killer I was going to name: the disconnect between coin-store or eBay prices, "book value", and what you get when you go...
I think about this kind of thing every time I see "NEW IN UNOPENED MINT BOX" items on eBay -- all the risk, but with zero chance of doing a return...
If only someone could have predicted this sort of thing might happen before the relevant laws were passed and court decisions handed down. Oh,...
It says it's the luckiest coin on eBay. It gets to sit there, admired by dozens of viewers, and it will never have to endure the stress of being...
I don't follow.
The comparison with astronomy and department-store telescopes is interesting, but I don't want to sidetrack this discussion. (Bottom line: I'll...
I've seen worse. Heck, I've got worse in an album or two. It's one of my limits as a collector: I'll never pay up for a nice problem-free example...
I'm intrigued by this notion of "fair market value" for BitCoin. Tell me more.
A whole lot prettier than the G-VG one I (briefly) had!
I got hit with that bad surprise on a lot of silver dollars, back when silver was much higher. Fortunately on that lot I came out ahead even after...
Not unless @BadThad gives up the recipe, which seems like a foolish thing for him to do. It might also be a bit hard for individuals to get the...
That's a monster coin in a monster grade, to be sure, but -- those field lines look an awful lot like scratches in these images, and I don't know...
If your college bathrooms were anything like some of ours, it would really drive home the concept of "filthy stinking rich".
Yeah, I used to occasionally snap up obviously-mistaken BIN listings, then message the seller pointing out the mistake and inviting them to cancel...
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