If you base any buying decisions based on prices you looked up on ebay - isn't it obvious ?
This is a simple fact, not an opinion - individual, hard plastic coin holders are the best option there is. Every other coin storage method there...
I am quite familiar with how Rick Ponterio grades coins and I have bought many coins from him. And this would not be the first coin that I thought...
Prince - there is no book anywhere, about any coins, where the prices listed in the book are worth the paper they are printed on. You do not buy...
Honestly, if you can't see it then there's no point in discussing it. But it is right where it almost always is - on the high points.
I strongly disagree with that.
Costello - there's not much you can do to help those coins. IMO, soaking the dimes in acetone is a waste of time. As for the cents, yes getting...
Ken - most examples of the coin are going to be Deep Cameo. So that designation really doesn't make the coin anything special. The grade of the...
Jwt - there are many different ANA courses. And while taking the correspondence version is not as good as taking them in person - it is far, far...
Ya know, eventually enough people are going to catch on to the over-grading done by the TPGs. Knowledgeable collectors already have. And when...
Yeah, and that is exactly my point and why ebay should not be used as a value reference - there are way too many people on ebay who have no clue...
I would say they graded the 100 Frg correctly, and over-graded The Lady In The Clouds.
While I agree with what you are saying about values Prince, I would not recommend using ebay as a source to check values. edit - if you want to...
Post a couple of pictures of these coins, it will help with providing guidance.
I think with these kind of fakes they used what we call a silver wash. It basically entails dipping the coin in an acidic solution with silver in...
The Krause catalogs are the standard, basic, references for world coins. For a lot of coins they will provide things like size (pictures are...
pcalvert - First of all I want to thank you for your post, it brought back a lot of fond memories for me. You see, over the years I have...
That '14 is a truly gorgeous coin !
Michael I forgot all about the teletype, at least until you mentioned it :o I never used one, but I can recall seeing them. 'Course the internet...
A couple of things that have not yet been mentioned. When I was a kid stores like JC Penney, Sears, Woolworth's, as well as many other department...
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