This is one of the best moderated forums I've ever inhabited on the internet. They do such a good job their work is largely invisible. Having had...
Yes, even experts and very intelligent and erudite people can fall for confirmation bias. Many simply do it to themselves.
Confirmation bias is a very difficult thing to fight against, because people tend to believe what they want to believe despite evidence or...
A number of bust types I picked up over the past year or two. The 19th century was not as prudish as often thought. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]...
Those are some of the most fascinating and beautiful coins ever minted. I have about 5 of them myself and I can't get enough.
Yes, Japanese dates aren't as hard as they look, but you need to know more than the numbers and that pre-modern coins read right-to-left instead...
For those who have no idea what we're talking about: [MEDIA] My father had the great pleasure of meeting and talking with Jimmy Durante in the...
Sorry for the off-topic question, but are you any relation to the great Jimmy Durante? It's a long shot, but one never knows. :D
There is a thread on another forum about this coin/token and that thread also claims that it's Sun Yat Sen, or the poster thinks that it's Sun Yat...
That might be John D. Rockefeller on the obverse, but otherwise, apart from mentioning the Federal Reserve and the date of its founding, I can't...
That's a beautiful mutilation! What does the reverse look like? My morbid curiosity needs to know. :D
I have sold on Ebay for years and unless an item inspires a bidding war I almost always lose money because they take 10% of the selling price and...
I completely agree with this and at coin shows I avoid booths that do not display prices as though they crawled with high levels of antibiotic...
I have experienced no issues with Apmex over the years. I've also been meaning to buy some poured silver from Beaver Bullion.
Though I haven't visited a local coin shop for quite some time now, the vast majority of them in my area have execrable customer service. By this...
I would never buy something that expensive from eBay.
The US mint did release one of their best recent commeratives with the Apollo 11 coin, but the 2019-W cent emits the stench of an arbitrary...
I have made far too many purchases that I've regretted on impulse, so I've stopped doing it.
The date on the coin, "平成元年," is pronounced "Heisei Gan'nen" and means roughly "First year of the emperor Heisei," or Emperor Akihito. It will be...
That could be. I thought about 会, but then I saw that the coin manufacturers were able to reproduce the same angles on the 館 character much more...
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