Not genuine, I'm afraid. This is a well-known design, and people have been making copies of it since before your grandmother was born. On the...
Yes. But when he was buying them, he wasn't at all concerned with their numismatic value; it was only when his colleagues started asking about...
This was a MAGICIAN, looking for PROPS. On what occasion do you suppose he had been "told not to buy uncertified coins"? If I'm looking for large...
I think a lot of people are losing sight of this. I saw a guy who was trying to sell six silver quarters, worth about melt, in a single lot....
Let's hear it for the free market!
Sometimes sellers accidentally select "Buy It Now" when they meant to specify a starting price. Sometimes they'll eat the loss for goodwill, but...
Your previous posts above gave the impression that you still haven't learned better. Rereading them, do you understand why we might have that...
For a rude wake-up call, take a look at high-grade coin prices from the mid-80's to present. There was a huge bubble around 1990, and many (most?)...
This is probably also a good place to re-post the link to David Lawrence's priceless and free online reference library:...
I disagree. Even if they got a tenth of the 150 million active accounts, they could be hacking ten thousand a day, and it would still take them...
Hey, every buyer has to start somewhere. They don't, however, have to start with a $1500 coin. More specifically, they don't have to start with...
The date was one feature I zeroed in on. My eyes are better able to pick up detailed differences in fonts than in facial features. The "1" on this...
I think the main problem with the obverse photo is that it's over-sharpened. The fingers and background look weird in the same way that the coin does.
Yep, you should buy circulated coins only if they've always been spent by people wearing gloves. :) Those are terrible photos, but between the...
I got three ads from them late last year through the email I gave to Numismatic News (Numismaster). They seem to think that they're still a going...
That sounds secure, but I have to say that 4 tries would be too low a threshold for me. It's a bad day when I need four tries to get in, but not...
I've never had anybody break into any of my online accounts, but I have had a burglar steal every laptop in our house. Fortunately, I had my...
Yeah, I'm thinking maybe they hit it crooked/off-center the first time and got a partial impression (bottom line and part of the middle line),...
Looks to me like "Alameda" with "California" stamped over it. Like they hit it once with the stamp, then again with just the bottom edge of the...
Ya know... for FIFTEEN YEARS, I had my real full name as my eBay user ID, and a spectacularly weak (five lower-case characters) password. Never a...
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