I'm fairly confident your definition of "good purchase" is heavily weighted toward "something I'd be proud to own and display", or at least...
To take a slightly different perspective, if I had $800 ready to buy this one, I would absolutely wait until I'd saved up another $800 to buy an...
I bookmarked a piece on eBay that was a "pre-Centennial" (1676) Brandenburg 1/3 silver thaler. It doesn't appear to have "Brandenburg" displayed...
I wonder if I can get them to slab an SD card if I promise it's got a Bitcoin wallet stored on it? :rolleyes:
I'm strictly a US collector, but I'd consider branching out for a piece that bears my surname (Brandenburg). Very nice!
So far, the stuff I've gotten taped to cardboard was mostly already junk silver. I send a note to the seller asking them not to do it in the...
Well, neither would I -- but I won't be having any other $5K coins in my collection any time soon, either. :rolleyes:
Gets you more prompt attention from the nice customer-service folks with the walkie-talkies, too.
I never said you were trolling, you must've read that into it yourself.
But there's nothing childish at all about trolling, is there?
To be fair, non-native English speakers might have a problem remembering whether it's "not sure" or "sure not". :rolleyes:
1936 Gobrecht Dollar $1 PR Proof VF Details PCGS I still can't muster much enthusiasm for the Seated Liberty obverse design, but I love that...
In the new concrete patio you're getting poured, I hope? :)
Easy to argue with any random shot of a toned coin, but harder to argue with an old-style slab. :) Nice catch!
Man, I wish I could find a bank that would order bags of Ikes for me. Then again, it's not like I've spent much effort looking.
Oh my gosh, I think I remember that! The store I'm thinking of was called "Two Guys", in west-central Maryland. Actually, I just realized that I...
That's a gold bean, right? Between that, the color, and the provenance (still having the BMM cardboard flip!), I'm not sure he's being all that...
I understand that you may not be happy with the answers you got in the previous thread, but starting another identical thread in the same forum...
I have never calibrated this scale. Not even once.
About.com claims, without citation, a tolerance of +/- 0.259g for the 1964 Kennedy. (Oddly, they say current silver proof halves have a tolerance...
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