One word - patience. The coins are out there, but they are popular. So in the grade/price range you want they don't come along that often....
That was written because it actually used to be true. It's not true anymore and hasn't been since 2004.
It's pretty much just what it says. Imagine, a coin has a bad mark or several smaller ones. If you know what you are doing you can use tools to...
Simple, because if people anywhere want to break the law they are going to break it. If people worldwide didn't break the law prisons would be...
That one little word is why everybody gets hung up on the idea of a 70 coin. If that word had never been used, nobody would ever have a problem...
Then you're going to have a problem because probably 99% of the books you'll want or need are not going to be found in a brick and mortar book...
You can look here for some - http://www.cointalk.com/t14152/ And there are several members of this forum I can think of off the top of my head...
Derik - what you are talking about is pretty widely known. Krause values are almost always too high or too low. And sometimes by extremes. I by...
Educated buyers set the market price, always have.
There have actually been quite a few threads on this subject. And there have even been more posts about books within other threads on other...
I have to agree with high XF.
Darrin - I have no idea which error it is. But to answer your question about value, a problem coin can be worth anywhere from 20-80% of what a...
I was going to say that if you were as old as him then you'd have a pretty good handle on things too. Then I looked, you are almost the same age...
No, not right. As Tom already explained, the recessed portions of the die used to be etched with acid. Today they are etched with a laser. But...
Well that's exactly the problem Hunter. Numismatic terms have established definitions, and when people begin applying their own definitions to...
I dunno, I think frosty is misused as much as blast white is. The term frost or frosty refers to a coin that has a look of having frost, (just...
Yeah, and you live, and buy coins, in another world Chris. You cannot compare ancients to US coins. Or even medieval world coins for that matter...
What Tom said is the key to answering your question binxter. What you should do, what everybody should do, is to only buy coins from sellers that...
Yes. That is because PVC residue on coins is caused by gasses, not by direct contact with the material. As the softening agent in the PVC breaks...
I would say that 99.9% of people used it with a Star Wars reference in mind. Over the years there were constant phrases posted like - you cannot...
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