I have never heard of them. Do they have a website? "Fleur de coin grading" in Google search doesn't seem to return an obvious site. Or even any...
I love and hate both slabs and raws. Slabs at least give some measure of assurance that you're buying the real thing, but, as already said, fake...
Germs are everywhere. As said above, you're more likely to get contaminated from the cell phone you put in your face multiple times a day than the...
Ummm... mine is... ummm... a happy splashing fish wearing tightie whities. It comes from one of the drawings on the site that I'm either on break...
One can only fathom the situation under which someone carved that coin. Yikes.
Yes, that's true, but the losses from the cent and the nickel are more than made up for by the profits from the dime, quarter and other releases....
Maybe, no one really knows, but I think such a situation would instead drive a move to electronic means of money rather than more coins.
Oh my, I would miss the lovely beaver nickel - one of my favorite modern circulating coins. But apparently some think it will happen: Canada will...
If anything ever happens with US money (apart from going electronic), I see Congress moving to polymer notes before switching to minting more...
Wow... I feel overwhelmed just looking at those pictures. Wow. The advice given so far is good, so I'll try not to repeat it. To speed up your...
They're not extremely expensive in AU grades. You can typically find decent Meiji 1 Yen dragons in the most common years somewhere between $100 -...
Sleazy dealers definitely exist. I've had run-ins with more than a few. Some have tried to pass off things to me as something else more valuable,...
Remember that, just like one person's trash is another person's treasure, one person's roadkill is another person's lunch. Perhaps that was...
Hm. Something makes me want to keep the slab as it is regardless of the error. The discrepancy doesn't really bother me and it does serve as a...
There is no emotional value price guide. Nor could one exist, because "EV" encompasses nothing but the utterly subjective. Each of us would have...
...when the slab is wrong. [IMG] The slab reads "M25 (1892)" or "Meiji Year 25" which should look like this on the coin: 明治二十五年 (going clockwise...
No shows in my area this weekend... but plenty more to come... time to freeze the credit card again...
It's fun to speculate on what the coin market might do, but no one really knows. Regardless, I have also heard that world coins have seen a...
Wow... that thing took a good beating... I unfortunately don't know much about chops, but this is one of my favorite coins and I've never seen...
As much as I love the US and Canadian mints, they both release an annual flood of material with hefty premiums that has just become overwhelming...
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