Yeah, if selling "quick", selling to another collector will be best value for you. Dealers will take a pretty massive cut. I know deals get done...
Yea, that blue is common for certain era proof nickels. Anyone ever read why this is so?
I agree. The real Lydian coins that possibly could be confused for this were electrum and had striations on the obverse and a punch on the...
I see why the OP was concerned. Justinian gold can sometimes look "weird", meaning the bottom of the face like jaw and neck do not strike up. This...
Scythians or Mongols maybe? Remember though, what the west refers to as "The Huns" were the Black Huns, the weakest amongst the Black, Red, and...
I have always heard any old large copper they could find they simply countermarked for new circulation at the new tariffed rate. No copper could...
Actually, both of those kingdoms led the evolution of copper coinage in this period. They invented 40 and 42 unit coins long before Anastasius...
To me its a microcosm of coinage evolution. Coins in the fifth century and part of fourth century were very chunky and thick. Then they...
Man, I wish I had your discipline. I am serious. I simply cannot maintain a want list, since it is whatever strikes my eye at the moment....
Want lists tend to grow in proportion to income in my view. I used to want 1 gold Byzantine, now own more than that and not even a main collecting...
Must invest in different stocks than I do. I collect about 4% annually in dividends for my "play money" stock portfolio.
Problem with buying slabbed PM and thinking its ok because I "will get the premium back". Let's assume that. Let's say you buy 10 ASE MS70's...
Wow, wildly not bullion in the least. I have wanted one for a while. For those who do not know the story, Saudi only wanted gold in payment for...
There definitely some who more closely define a "set". Many with deeper pockets insist on a denarii set, all portrait and a lifetime Caesar. Makes...
The ancient collectors have been seeing spikes all through Covid. Its one of those things that makes you glad you bought what you did when you...
Not from me. Its cool, but unless there is a provenance associated with it, (listing dealer lot number, auction number, etc), I do not see why it...
Yeah, definite eye appeal winner.
You well could be right about Arab Sasanian. I was thinking it could have been a one off, kind of like figural Turkish bronzes, a celator ran...
Good point. I don't know what prices were for in the 50's, but bought quite a few originally sold in the 70's so this price would not have...
$25 for that coin? Guessing in the 1970's. By the late 80s/early 90's an 1807 like that they would be asking $80/100 in my memory. Anything before...
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