Before you fire up that drill, please realize that your scale appears to be reporting "oz", not "ozt", and that 5 troy ounces is about 5.48...
Washers? Mint-state Seated Liberty coins?
Persistere.
I've been getting some bright and lustrous 2015-Ds in change over the last few weeks that have atrocious die deterioration. I should try to get...
Wear hits the edges hardest. Take a look at some slick Barber dimes sometime -- you can probably get 70 of them stacked into a tube that's...
Yes, that's true, unfortunately. It makes the NC resident's problem sort of the opposite of the California resident -- we get socked if our...
Yes, I think I remember that list, or something like it, from my pre-Internet childhood as well. I'm curious about its origin too, but I imagine...
I'm shocked, shocked to discover that some of the tactics dealers use to "comply" with local tax laws are themselves of questionable legality. Or,...
North Carolina has no threshold -- any purchase of coins or PM, no matter how large or small, is taxable (unless you're buying from the US mint...
Keeping in mind, please, that his most-cited five-point summation is not something that he actually wrote, and that his own theses seem rather at...
Exactly. There are some rare examples where dime was accidentally struck at the Mint with a cent die; those are valuable. On those coins, though,...
If I'm remembering correctly, he's planning to roll it into one of the ultimate high risk/high reward vehicles: a new business. To which I say, as...
Followup: the CSR I spoke to on the 28th said I should hear back in 24-48 hours. I've heard nothing. I've been meaning to escalate, but it's been...
The three 40% coins contain a good bit more silver than the one 90%. You lose some advantage, though, because 40% silver trades at a discount --...
I've been following Coinflation for many years now. In that entire time, I can remember maybe once noticing an article that was distinctly...
Yes, some of them have always talked like this, always made huge claims. Some of them say different things at different times, or at the same...
Yes, I know exactly what label you want to pin on me. It's just that it doesn't fit. (I'm also amused at how you slip a derogatory term like "the...
I also think that it's bad for a grocery store to charge you more than the marked price for an item, but perfectly fine for them to charge you...
Usually. But the confusion can work to the (or at least one) buyer's advantage. I remember seeing a listing for "1886 Morgan Dollar", BIN at...
Nobody. I can't get them.
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