Nobody really answered your question - not completely anyway. Yes, if you over-dip the coin it will affect the coin in a negative way. But if you...
Yep, there are some out there, no doubt of that. There may even be a few collections out there that consist of raw high quality coins, or have a...
A member sent me a PM with the question of what books and web sites I would recommend to help him learn to grade. Now at first glance that would...
A couple of things here. Just about every museum there is, regularly takes the coins in their collection and has an employee wipe them all down...
Or all the more reason not to.
And you won't, because there isn't one. Even if you pulled and melted every fake that was found, they would just make more.
Then ya better give up on trying to buy coins because it's going to a rare dealer indeed who has not unknowingly passed a fake. And don't think...
Seriously ?? Just how many nice, or high quality, coins do you think there are ? And who exactly would be the owners of these collections ? And...
Oh I dunno, some sets of golf clubs cost many thousands of dollars. A boat - nothing but a hole in the water that you pour money into. I've got a...
True. But that doesn't matter. It exists.
Every state has a law that says that you can't sell counterfeits as genuine. So if you buy a coin from a dealer and find out that it is a...
There is no such thing as a "safe" investment - ever.
Then make doubly sure to never tell her that you shouldn't compare investments, not even what some call investments, to expenses in order to make...
Not anymore no. But then I never claimed it was the Chinese doing it. In today's world it cost more than a cent to make a cent, so they are no...
Yeah, they do. And they do it willingly. Coin dealers on the other hand are required by law to guarantee the coins they sell are genuine. In...
Let me ask you a question rysherms. Hundreds, thousands of dealers have unknowing sold fakes. The TPGs have slabbed fakes as genuine, and still do...
Sure wouldn't bet on that happening. If they are very, very, lucky, they might get back what you paid for them. Maybe.
That's where you are wrong. Nobody is saying he shouldn't be responsible. If he sells a fakes, knowingly or not - he is absolutely responsible to...
Any time somebody loses money somebody else is making, or has made, money. But anybody who bought coins between 1987 and held them for 3-5 years...
No it's not adjusted for inflation. Those were actual dollar values for each year listed.
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