It's because they, like most people in numismatics, consider them to be nothing more than a hunk of bullion. Would you handle a 1 oz silver bar...
Could be the pics, but it looks like it has been lightly polished to me.
10x is too strong, and that is precisely why professionals recommend to not use over 5x. Any coin, even a valid 70, will show flaws at 10x....
Interesting, I would have suspected both of you to say the opposite. I think it's cast base metal that has been gold plated. There's plenty of...
There used to be a couple for individual countries but most of those web sites are dead now. Bottom line, there isn't anything like what you want....
Try selling some. You'll be amazed at how much more you learn from selling than you ever will from buying or collecting.
There is nothing wrong with ebay itself. The problem is some of, I'd even go so far as to say most, of the sellers. Ebay is not the same place it...
To a large degree there was another reason that happened. During a ruler's first year of reign they knew little about the actual goings on in the...
Go here - http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml - look up the closest office to you, and give 'em a call.
Then tell me one other place or other selling venue, that is effective, that is as cheap as ebay is ? When you can't tell me that one other...
It's happened, but very rarely. And when it did the TPG always honored their guarantee.
No, they didn't. They have one for silver too. And both prices are documented just like Fatima said they were.
Like I said, you are fooling yourself to believe that. Everybody get's fooled by a good fake sooner later - including me. Ask any of the most...
Pretty much every collector there is has a counterfeit or an altered (date or mint mark) coin in his collection and doesn't even know it. Some...
As I said earlier, I pretty much know that since Cambridge has a chair in numismatics. I just do not know what the particulars are. Nor have I...
Depends on the coin. It's pretty much common knowledge that coins of exceptional value, rarity, or pedigree are given grade bumps. And since the...
I disagree, and I don't care about the surviving specimens either. I only care about what the law was at the time. Now I cannot speak with any...
When you made the coin doesn't haven't anything to do with it in my opinion. Your opinion differs. No sense arguing about opinion as it cannot be...
The other thread started by the OP on the same subject is better suited to providing answers.
That depends on the specific date and mint.
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