Honest question - then why don't you leave and stop posting here ? By your own words you'd be happier. And I'm pretty dang sure that a whole of...
I'm pretty sure that's not a valid diagnostic for improperly annealed coins.
I thought I'd made that quite plain in other threads Kurt. I believe interest in and participation in the hobby is and has been growing for some...
Well, that's a point on which we are going to have to agree to disagree. But that's OK, I'm used to people disagreeing with me. At least until...
I think you need to learn how to read Kurt, or maybe see. Gold and silver were climbing rapidly in 2008 to 2012 while the coin market dropped...
What's it say in the Red Book Kurt ? Well let's see, it says prices rise as, reason #4 - the price of gold and silver increase. And, if gold and...
What people refer to as copper spots on gold is nothing more than toning. And like all toning it's a simple matter to dip the coin and remove it....
It's not short term values you need to be concerned about. But rather somebody selling you a coin (or coins) on a monthly basis for say $35 - when...
There's quite a few dealers that offer programs similar to that. Most of them call them Coin Of The Month or something along those lines. If you...
I would ask you, does why matter ? And no, I'm not being fippant, I'm quite serious. In your original question you commented that you had noticed...
That's about all it should be for anything up to and including MS63 for basically any generic gold coin. What's a generic gold coin ? Most of them...
Comments like this are common and you'll find them in books, articles, websites, forums - basically all over the place and about all coins....
It works for a general rule, but I wouldn't put a lot of faith in the color progression chart because mother nature doesn't always follow those...
The reason some are or get confused with the term uncirculated is because they don't know the definition of the word when it is used in...
When I was still collecting I set out to be the first to assemble a date set of Netherlands gold ducats. Given the number of years they had been...
The idea of putting reeding or some other design onto the edge of a coin goes back to 1643 when it was first invented by the Royal Mint of France....
They've been using that blue label since about 1998. And no they don't go sequentially for all coins, each coin has its own unique coin number....
Typically marks like that are from either a counting machine or a rolling machine. In other words, it's common post mint damage, nothing more.
For the most part, you're right. However, I would offer this "warning", and I'm using quotes around that word because the word is accurate in this...
Cert numbers don't tell you much in regard to when it was graded because each coin has it's own series of cert numbers. In other words it may have...
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