$20 silver by the end of 2011 wouldn't surprise me. I think we have a bubble, and it will burst sooner or later. After all, what are people going...
I'll wait for silver to come back down to a reasonable level, and maybe then I'll buy one out of the entire set. Even after silver falls back to...
Good catch on that privy mark. I suspected there was something subtle and totally missed that. On the obverse, the clothing on the lower graded...
Now that I've been checking my coins, I've noticed that there are still a lot of war nickels out there, and circulating minor error coins (off...
Heritage usually does a heck of a job in realizing top dollar for their clients, so even though I'm in the neighborhood of their office, I rarely...
I've seen several demi-francs from this time period in local dealer's melt bins. I'm happy to buy them at that price, but I don't think they trade...
Weighing the coin is the best way to be sure. Australian shillings of the time period were popular for love tokens, but a mint error like that...
I would recommend getting the coins out of the leather bag. Leather is usually treated with some chemicals that can be very harmful to coins. As...
The pre-1800 Krause catalog seems like a good place to start. Anything before 1800 is usually beyond my grasp though. Anyone else have a...
Hmm... I seem to have messed up that image post. Here goes again: [ATTACH]
US Philippine Peso My favorite US coin imagery is on the US Territorial Peso. I prefer the obverse (liberty striking the forge of freedom) even...
Odd story there. Do those still come up for auction, or did the Saudis melt them all down?
Someone sent me a real story of ebay schadenfreude last week: http://gizmodo.com/5713664/this-great-ebay-scam-will-warm-your-heart
Weird. It looks like JFK took a vacation in Tahiti and got some body art...
That looks like a cast token - is that a Zodiac Aries on one side and a tree on the other?
Those are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. Do you have any resources recommendations for learning more about shooting thalers? I'd like to learn a...
My understanding is that there is some variety in the weight and fineness of the French issues. One of the coin shops I was at, the owner had some...
Interesting. My understanding is that there was a serious coin shortage during the war, largely due to the introduction of paper money (Gresham's...
Ah, thank you. That clears things up.
What's to say that it's a contemporary counterfeit instead of a contemporary one? Didn't these see a lot of circulation as trade coinage in Asia...
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