It didn't have layers to start with. A corrosive agent or oxidizer reacted with the coin's surface, long and hard enough to go fairly deep. This...
I think of counters and rollers as mashing the metal down, not gouging it away. So I'd expect to see remnants of the design underneath. I may be...
Then it sounds like, for you, it's time to sell. Is gold likely to go up in the future? Yes, eventually. Down, too. Soon? Hard to say. Soon...
Hey, depending on when you bought in 2013, that might even fit in the "post your $50 or under purchase" thread! (Of course, an ounce of silver was...
As I recall, gti2 lists tons of "survival silver" lots at well above melt value. I don't remember if he's one of the ones who sold silver "by the...
I might have too, but not at that level. (And that's why I don't get a lot of big wins.)
I dunno. Looks like the underbidder had been in it for a while, and put in a "nuclear snipe", but got out-nuked. The high bidder might have been...
Wait, what? Unless it's coming directly from a Congressperson's office, I don't think so.
This is the same argument used for .999 fine silver vs coin silver vs sterling and other scrap. The big difference is that gold is very easy to...
And if I'd listed those coins, the odds are good that I'd have missed the variety, listed them at what I considered a fairly hefty BIN, and been...
Still different from what I believed in the wake of previous discussions. I'm not sure if it's "illegal to hold" them -- there's no penalty as...
Did you know that every "real Federal Law" can, in fact, be looked up on the Internet? 18 U.S. Code § 489 - Making or possessing likeness of...
When PayPal went public, I was a Power Seller on eBay, and did enough PayPal business to get invited to their IPO. I bought the minimum 100...
I don't think any eBay policy can help with that, any more than it can help me make money on the junk silver I bought for 25x face value.
I don't know. I think it'll be less interesting five or ten years down the line, after they've decided to start giving numeric ratings on all...
Nice save! :)
Take another look at the relevant statutes. Previous discussions here seemed to establish that it's only illegal to fraudulently utter or sell...
And "commerative".
"If it's old", she says -- with a photo featuring a nice, shiny 1974-S cent right in the middle, minted after I'd already been collecting for...
Imagine how rich you would've been in that day to be able to gamble tens or hundreds of dollars on a poker hand. Now, imagine being that rich...
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