Yes, I have done this with my Roman emperor collection. Most of the coins are raw with a few in slabs. I take pictures of the slabbed coins and...
This is another example of the mint putting shaft to the collector to please the flippers. This thing is bogus from the start. If you want to...
Your "over $300" rule for slabbed coins is not a bad one. If you heirs get ready to sell, I can tell you from experience that they will probably...
For as long as there have been grading companies, there have been “A”, “B” and “C” rated coins within the number grades. I agree with you that the...
Right now I am collecting one of every emperor to Constantine UNLESS it's one that costs thousands, like Didius Julianus. It was neat that he was...
I understand that they did that in Massachusetts with the silver coinage. When I lived in New England, dealers sometimes had cull Massachusetts...
Especially fermented grapes that came in bottles. I've read that he and friends got a lot of inspiration for his poety from the effects of...
How about this one? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] No, it's not my coin ... It's in the British Museum.
Maybe there was a reason why these guys let the lettering mush out on these coins. If you could not read the source or the moneyer, you would have...
MS-63. I see some hairlining on the reverse.
If you exclude the Proof coins that I have, which have business strike counterparts, it might be this Pan-Pac $50 round with a net mintage of 483....
The argenteus coins with the four leaders around the altar provides interesting symbolism, but getting all four of them in that format gets...
The cataloger thought that it might be Chester. Dealer Andy Singer looked at it and was not sure. The North number is 853. I have barely gotten...
Most of my reference books come from the Friends of the Liberty bookstore that my wife works with in her volunteer work. As such they are mostly...
Neither, according the cataloger. The claim, without any equivocations, is that it’s Bristol with Ricard as the moneyer. Since that is a...
One of the frustrating aspects of these coins is that even when the piece is well made for the type, the lettering is still mushy and hard to...
Let’s face it. When I was strictly a U.S. coin collector a decade ago, I would have looked at that Henry I penny and dismissed it out of hand as...
[ATTACH] William the Conqueor penny, Spink 1257 William the Conqueror issued nice coins for the medieval period after he seized England in 1066....
Real estate can make a lot of money for you. I know because I have made a a lot of money from it. I'm not so sure about about owning rental...
When copper-nickel coins corrode, they turn black or brown. That is true for nickels and clad dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars.
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