The Victoria gothic crown is definitely in my top ten most beautiful modern (as opposed to ancient) coins. Others would be the British Una and...
HA does survey at least part of the customer base on an annual basis. I've been asked to participate several times. To encourage compliance,...
I agree folks that own a 5-figure coin will likely have enough liquid assets to last a few months. But the economic downturn will last a lot...
If the recession is significantly worse than 2008, good chance mid-priced coins will decline in value. It will take a while for folks who are...
I checked and they will pay the lesser of a number of things including "declared value", which is what I expected. I always put market value on...
I wonder if that's true of private insurance. I'll have to check my policy. Cal
It may be unpopular to stick-up for PCGS or NGC, but I've been treated more than fairly by both. A few examples: a. Had a CC Morgan graded by...
Completely agree. But getting rid of DP images is not politically acceptable. If their portraits are removed from coins or bills, too many folks...
I finally watched the video and didn't find contradictions with what I had posted. I surmised that Sheldon had sufficient wealth to collect...
Sheldon had a PhD and MD and was a faculty member at the Harvard, Columbia and Univ of Oregon medical schools. I imagine he had a lot of money...
Sheldon wasn't the only numismatist to steal coins from ANS. In 1989, a surgeon named Juan Suros, was caught with coins he lifted from the ANS...
Yes, Ivy League schools. The students gave verbal consent because they were told that the photographs would be used to check for health problems...
Pretty much agree. Do you think paper catalogs will go away? Cal
I think coin prices at auctions, all on-line (including phone, mail, fax) now, have held up well during the pandemic. And there are likely to be...
Sheldon had other dark sides. He was the inventor of the discredited theory of using physique to predict personality aka constitutional...
If I could just get my DeWalt fixed, I'd have a holed collection too. Cal
The U.S. Mint designed and made coins with holes, like the one pictured in the link below. It's a J-1724 nickel. Some folks collect them. And...
Mostly, jewelry and tableware. Silver was used heavily in photography and radiography for over a century. However, in the first half of the 20th...
Nice coin and nice series. I considered collecting it myself at one point, but for old copper, decided on 2 cents. Why not go for one per date?...
Many of us are old enough to remember when $1 silver certificates were a common type of dollar bill ... as opposed to federal reserve notes, which...
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