Yep. Grade A copper is currently around $2.50/lb. Last I checked, retail shipping costs (once you got past USPS flat-rate options) tended to be in...
Well, I'd hope he was at least teaching how to recognize the problems. That's important, whether you're willing to collect the coin anyhow or not.
Every day we get several people starting threads with obviously manipulated or damaged coins, and they're sure they're mint errors. This isn't...
I'm mostly concerned that we don't go back to the days where it was okay, and sometimes recommended, to (say) scrub your coins with an eraser. If...
Of course he did. If we weren't careful to spend lots of time teaching people that "details" coins are "worthless", they might be misled into...
As have others, since at least the 1980s. Wherever there's a market, some will see conspiracies.
But there are layers. The outer layers are 80% silver and 20% copper, bound to an inner layer that's 80% copper and 20% silver. The layers...
No, the pernicious thing was missing out on the opportunity to sell it for a 3X profit four or five years later, then restock more recently. ;)...
Chemical-free coins! Hard vacuum inside of a coin-shaped cavity.
No, no, before submitting it. Although I'm sure there are plenty of people who think that a nice, long acetone soak is just the thing to remove...
Like gold?
A bit less than one cent, because it's damaged enough that some machines might not accept it.
I've seen all sorts of colors along the edge of 40% halves. Usually the 20% silver center layer is darker than the 80% silver layers, but they...
It was never, ever illegal to buy or sell gold in the form of jewelry, not to mention collectible coins. Furthermore, the dollar was still pegged...
Don't you suppose that stems from some material that's transferred from the roll onto the coin, where it sits and continues to react? I wonder if...
In fact, if they were, any time the coins were carried in the cargo hold of an airplane they'd be subjected to several pounds of pressure pushing...
So maybe all those "Original Bank Rolls" of Morgans on eBay really are legit! Some? Any?
More than 1000? Yes. More than 10,000? Probably. More than 100,000? No. The number that justify individual attention is a lot lower. Bags of...
So, no growth, no new production, nothing to increase the pool of goods competing for a limited supply of money (which causes deflation)? Nothing...
Sometimes I find it hard to understand why someone would enjoy numismatics without actually collecting. Then I remember that I enjoy astronomy.
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