First of all, talk to your accountant and ask him/her. In simple terms - if you sell a coin, (slabbed or raw makes no difference, nor does it...
If he does I've never heard of one and I've known him for 13 years. edit - As for numbers on the slabs - they are useless for trying to date a...
Well there's your problem. Got a Krause catalog ? Get it out and look up KM# 2041.2
Here's a thread that will help with identifying the PCGS slabs -...
I sure wish I had known you during all those years I was searching for them Mark. You're probably only the 3rd or 4th person I've ever talked to...
It's a Reader's Digest copy. What I was responding to was you calling it a "fantasy" piece. It isn't a fantasy piece. A fantasy coin is one that...
I would agree, it does depend. But there is this to consider when making such a decision. In 30 years of searching I managed to see 1, let me...
Enough. This thread has become an exchange of personal insults rather than a discussion. So it ends here.
Here is a link to one of the more recent threads - http://www.cointalk.com/t192161/ Look closely at the reverse of the coin I posted pics of....
No, it's a copy of a genuine gold ducat. The copies were made by Reader's Digest some years ago and given out as a promotion.
All coins, slabbed or not decrease in value all the time. They go up and down like a yo-yo.
I think it'd be more accurate to say that archaeologists have pulled off the greatest thefts in archaeological history. I suspect this one pales...
You do, it is a first ;) (In one of your threads anyway)
I believe it is, yes. But it's not silver, it's base metal. The genuine coin is quite rare and was minted in gold.
Gotta give ya credit, that's one heck of a lot of work ! I don't think 1 person in a thousand will ever recognize it, but Boy Howdy you sure are...
No those are the counterfeits. Any Netherlands ducat struck by the Russians is a counterfeit. The Russian govt. knowingly and quite intentionally...
If not for the tiny cud above the O on the obv and the spot on the rev, I may have actually gone 68 with this coin.
I closed this one for you.
Know what ? They won't care if ya do.
1 - agree, returnable - forever 2 - neither agree nor disagree because it depends on the situation. 3 - neither agree nor disagree because it...
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