There is a huge difference between something that is secret and something that most simply don't know. Of course it's not a secret. If you read...
Glad it did - it confirms what I have always said - that premiums on toned coins did not start until around 2002. That was just the beginning of...
No idea as I have not been trying to keep track of them in regard to quality of strike. Something worth mentioning though - you have been claiming...
You said - "One of these days I'm going to blow the lid off of taping & flowing in the dry wall business." So - are you an ex-sheetrocker ?
Rule of thumb - PCGS will only list varieties that are in the Red Book. NGC does a few more, but not many.
OK - but how do you sort out all of the idiots on ebay who pay way more than the coin is worth ? And don't even try to tell me that any coin...
In 2008 those on Heritage ranged from $4000 to $7500. In 2010 they ranged from $3200 to $4600. Seems like quite a reduction to me....
Just about any place you want. Now you personally may not define the prices as low, but they are without a doubt lower than they were 2 years ago....
Sorry to hear that, thanks for telling us Roy. I shall miss Brad.
You can read about the Goodacre coins here - http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page24.html - and there are 2 different types.
The same thing that happened to all those things you've always asked me not to tell anyone else ;)
Even if I could - I would not repeat it since it is supposed to be confidential.
It's a modern reproduction comonly sold to tourists in the Caribbean.
I'd say it's an absolute certainty that it has been dipped - over-dipped even.
Even thinking that a hobby that has lasted 2000 years or more is going to go away any time soon isn't very good thinking IMO. Yes the hobby is...
Then you need to start looking closer. Again - you are only assuming they are planchet marks. And what does a lack of planchet marks have to...
What about them ? Nobody even knows what methods NCS uses. We only assume that they dip coins, but we don't know that they do. Nor do we know what...
To say or even think that planchet marks don't ever make it to a finished coin is foolish. But it is equally foolish to think that there are as...
marbury - have you ever read the Terms And Conditions for the European auction houses ? They say the same thing. As I said - all auction houses...
Pics are too blurry - can't see it. But given what you say it says, it's some sort of token, commemorative, or modern private issue.
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