How confident are you in your ability to distinguish fakes? If it's a counterfeit, but still minted in coin gold, sure, it's worth melt. If it...
So, if I list a coin with a higher price printed on the 2x2, does that imply it's a bargain? Time to start adding a zero to each of my prices... :)
It sounds like you're confusing acetone and "dip". "Dip" is for removing tarnish (sulfide deposits), and is typically based on a strong but...
Check out this "proof-like" "valuable" 1907 "$10 gold coin": Valuable 1907 $10 gold coin I can't quite tell what's stamped on the back, but...
But one can always point to "manipulation" in one form or another. Everything anyone does in a market "manipulates" it, to however small a degree....
I was going to pounce on this quickly before the seller realized what he had, but I decided to let the rest of the folks here have a turn for a...
Currencies may be "pegged against each other", but the important issue is what they can buy. I don't have any idea what relative changes were...
Except in (say) 1979-1980, when gold went up, what, five- or sixfold, while the cost of living went up maybe 20% or so -- and then gold went back...
I can think of quite a few -- for starters, anything electronic. And they're all terrible "investments". :)
Here's the retraction abuse I've seen: Seller lists an item with a great Buy It Now price, but also lists a lower starting price, and requires...
I am in North Carolina, and I ain't steppin' in that.
The article I read was discussing decreases over the last few months, though, not multi-decade scales.
Ah. I had the impression that the coin itself was questionable. All the same, the item as a whole is counterfeit, and so I'd expect it to be...
I knew there was something tickling at my memory about this, and I finally found it: Antimony Coin It's certainly not a "coin" in the same sense...
I fell in love with chemistry as a child even harder than I fell in love with coin collecting. This is very, very cool. :) People ask...
On the topic of returning coins won on eBay: As I documented in earlier threads here and here, I bought a counterfeit coin from eBay, and got a...
That lighting is really weird -- on the reverse, it looks like the eagle's figure is in relief to the field, even though the details appear...
Yeah, but I was asking after the ones in banks. Apparently they're often free of surcharges, and sometimes the bank personnel can open them to...
Looks like the first anything he ever sold. But he's been buying lots of cheap clads.
Hmm. I think of it more as "we're all victims of early-80's radio playlists". (searches around for the "doddering old greybeard" icon...)
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