You aren't the first to say this, and others have insisted that only halogen (incandescent) bulbs are acceptable when examining a coin to grade...
It looks to me like the camera focused on the label text; the coin surface is out of focus. It also looks like this image is very heavily...
I'm still wondering whether eBay does this as a simple sale-category check (and I can't imagine how else they would do it). If that's the case,...
Dire international events have always tended to spike gold prices. So, if you're the sort of ghoul who cheers on those events, congratulations, I...
Tell that to the people who bought in 2010 and sold in 2011. Or the people who sold in 2017 or so and never delivered the goods.
Well, there you go. Assume that a coin holds a fairly steady value. You buy it at (say) $1000. If you paid that money to a dealer, some of it...
Did you buy them from a dealer? Did you sell them to a dealer? A 20% margin is actually quite low for most dealers in coins -- heck, for most...
Well, yeah, but isn't it a little expensive to get ambulance service from Europe or Asia to the US? Or is that just another US healthcare thing? ;)
So, just to make sure I'm following along: "Every piece of media" is corrupt. CoinTalk is a "piece of media". YouTube is not a "piece of...
You still owe some of that to @Garlicus. Or you could send him the silver he paid for. Nobody here cares if you start singing the praises of...
So, did you convert that silver to Bitcoin a couple of years ago instead of sending it to @Garlicus after he paid you for it? Or did you just put...
Ya know, I'd be able to sleep a lot better tonight if the international news had caused gold to drop by $100 and silver by $2. :(
Where the IRS is involved, talking to a CPA and/or an attorney is much better than guessing. ;)
For the younger set who are recoiling at this notion, or the older set who've forgotten, I'll point out that my college used SSNs as student ID...
How many "average people" would care that it was altered? Judging from the number of 1916-D dimes worn down to AG or lower, "average people" don't...
Well, if someone starts carving on you with a knife, you'll have to decide whether you'd rather open the safe for them or lose some pieces. If...
I'm in my late 50s, and I've been in my house for about 25 years. Bank holidays during that time: 0 Break-ins during that time: 2 Break-ins...
Yeah, that looks like a die scratch or crack, at least to me. There are more knowledgeable people around here who may weigh in. In any case, it's...
That means when you got it it was already nearly twenty years old, right? There's plenty that could have happened to it during that time, believe...
Just a matter of hanging out in the right (or wrong) environment. Sometimes exposure to heat can cause that kind of color, but given the other...
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