Huh. Wonder what he did to finally go over the edge...
Of course there is. In fact, he might have bought each property outright, then mortgaged each in turn to buy the next one. The point is that he...
I'm guessing that a second discovered instance of the one in the article will raise the value of both considerably...
Well, the fact that they were foreclosed hints that they were financed with mortgages, not purchased outright, doesn't it? Now, if he instead had...
Is there a survivorship issue, given that the smaller coins may have circulated more, were probably more easily lost, and were certainly used more...
The symbolism is almost overwhelming.
Investment and speculation are all about risk vs. reward. To my mind, bullion is a much poorer investment than equities -- put $10k in each, hold...
My thoughts are that I don't know enough about the series to offer a useful opinion, but it reminds me unpleasantly of some of the fakes posted...
NO, bullion investing is NOT "safe" in the sense of "I'll make a profit in ten years". Take a look at any long-term silver price chart. There are...
Yep. Of course, mail-order was a gnat compared to the behemoth of the Internet. Sometimes a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind.
If only one in many thousands on the Internet is good, that still adds up to many, MANY thousands that are good. And now they're all at my...
Bravo! My opinion probably doesn't count for much on this issue, because I'm proud and happy to collect even problem coins if they appeal to me,...
But we've agreed not to discuss politics here. I think the good the Internet does is critical, as long as we can keep the evil from destroying...
The "semblance of security" is still very much a thing. "Critical mass" aside, grifters have always been around; if pre-Internet isolation kept...
Barbers were hard-working coins, and it shows. Some, the dimes especially, have lost significant weight due to wear -- I've measured some dimes at...
Yes, I too remember the Golden Age before the Internet made deceptive promotions possible. :rolleyes:
But -- but -- how? The Federal government is where money comes from! ;)
Interestingly, if you buy from a third-party seller through the Amazon marketplace, you still may not be charged sales tax as part of the...
I think the usual phrasing is "quite ill", not "ill quite"...?
I know the accepted phrasing for the principle is something like "understanding your market", but the vernacular when I was growing up was "seeing...
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