Yeah, I'm a bit annoyed at the "BU" coins I bought that I now recognize as cleaned or damaged. Of course, I bought them at coin shows, or at local...
If you're going to be buying silver from uncertain sources, you really, really ought to get a scale with more precision. You can probably get by...
Find me a holed 1916-D dime for melt. Heck, find me a holed Trade dollar for melt. Have you looked up the value on an undamaged 1865-P quarter...
It certainly does matter if it's a rare date, and 1865-P certainly is. But are you sure that it isn't just an 1865-S with a hole where the mint...
Looks more like PMD (a hit to the mintmark) to me. That, or it's an extremely rare issue from the Rochester mint. :)
A $3 Gold at melt? LOL! The cheapest one that's sold on eBay lately was close to P01 on both faces, and got $310. Trashed, holed, and soldered...
If you're trying to maximize gold weight for your buck, it seems like Liberty $5 (half-eagles) run the lowest premiums. Then again, I haven't been...
I also can't imagine that whales like APMEX or MCM don't negotiate their own more-favorable terms.
Take your choice. List under Bullion, avoid the 90-day return, and see up to 2% lower final prices because your buyers aren't getting 2% eBay...
Dude. If you've got a working time machine, you can do way better than hauling chunks of metal back and forth. :)
Zombucks are not denominated in dollars. Norfeds were. You can make your own novelty tokens, denominated in your own novelty units, but you don't...
I don't know whether all those sites search the stuff themselves -- I suspect not -- but it seems likely that a lot of the folks selling to them...
It's tempting, but I'd rather not saggle myself with that much debt. :)
Is that wear at the ear, temple, and cheekbone? I would've thought so, but I see the same effect on Photograde's MS63 image. Even if not, I wonder...
Well, it's an error in judgement to plate a coin gold like that, but it's certainly not a mint error.
Wow. If you really see that as a 3, I guess there just isn't much more to say. (Well, I might go over the difference between Shift and Caps Lock,...
eBay, of course. :) Oddly enough, although dateless SLQs are usually worn enough to be 5-10% underweight, they usually still trade a bit above...
Looks like a pretty clear shadow of a 4 to me. Oddly, I just got what I think is a similarly-faint 24-S in a batch of "dateless" SLQs yesterday.
Yep, that's a beauty!
DON'T EVER clean silver coins with baking soda! Even though that dollar looks like it's been cleaned before, and it's probably damaged from being...
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