I'd say you got that backwards. It is a hobby that evolved into an industry.
That is something that surprises a great many people. What they find even more surprising though is when there are 2 coins, graded the same by the...
Boy Howdy ! I'm gonna have to agree with Mark and Mike both - in the same thread :bigeyes: Somebody call Chicken Little 'cause the sky is...
All told there were about 150 (give or take a few) years that no ducat was minted by the Netherlands, mostly due to wars. But that is from 1586...
Depending on how bad the marks on the cheek are, and how much the fingerprint shows up - 65 ?
Agreed.
I have purchased many, many coins from them. They are among the best !
Even when those coins were released not everybody could get one. They were the first modern commems, that I am aware of, that were a sell out. It...
To be honest the pictures are kind of blurry and it is impossible to judge the coins based on them. But from what I can see in the pics it looks...
It's common to find polished examples of any coin. When someone says a coin is polished, all it means is that somebody took the coin and polished...
Don't know what to say. I would suggest that you contact Peter as he is the only one who can fix such things.
The long mark in the rays, is it a scratch, on the plastic, or a die crack ?
Well wherever it is my friend it's certainly a nice neighborhood :thumb: And ya know, you can always keep on as you have been and work on the...
Bart I meant to do it yesterday and forgot. But I stll have a few books that Conrad doesn't have yet. I'll check when I get home and see if I can...
:eek: :bigeyes: Elizabeth ! I'm comin darlin ! This may be the Big One !!
The coin appears to be an ordinary circulated '36 Buff. What made you think it might be a Proof ?
I don't think any of us would disagree with you on that count. And that is exactly the point we are making. The coin is over-graded, just like...
No, I was merely pointing that the kind of album you have, the Waite Raymond albums, are very well known for causing coins to tone. Some people...
Congrats on the new ducats :thumb: Who knows, maybe one of these days you can complete the set I never finished. You'd be the only one to ever do...
Coins cleaned like that often lose 50-80% of any value they had before the cleaning. Most of them would be worth melt at this point.
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