Ah, yes. Thank you, that makes total sense and I understand. Excellent explanation with examples and all. I love it.
Medoraman's comment was interesting. I think he was saying that the strike figures into the grade on ancients than it does for US coins. I know...
That is a really interesting statement. Are you saying that a coin with a weaker strike will have more luster than a similar coin with a stronger...
And only a few months in between the sales? When I buy a coin - that has some rarety - that has at anytime been in a heritage sale I look for it...
Wow, just wow. I could throw in "disturbing".
I love your analysis. Since strike varies so much on double eagles, on gold generally from what I've seen, I don't completely agree but you...
Um,Yes, clearly an issue. Could you put a number to that (as meaningless as that may be?)
I am thinking that the variation between these two pieces, both type III double eagles from the same mint (Carson City) is interesting and perhaps...
That is a really lovely and interesting set. War year proofs, sweet.
that 1803 is really nice.
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I think that's what I said? The question is how do you wind up with a plethora of circulated coins that are of the same variety?
I have a modest collection of type 1 double eagles. A few years ago a bought an 1853/2 variety coin in a circulated grade. Very nice piece and...
I like to limit my collecting so that I don't just buy random stuff. So after collecting type 1 double eagles for a while I stumbled into 1840...
Congrats on the 35 - Here's mine: gotta love the reverse! [ATTACH]
It's especially nice that it has a sweet reverse. They are often all washed out or had poor strikes to begin with.
So, question here. Isn't the demand in Asia and India a major factor in world gold prices - more so than US demand? I thought that was the case....
You keep junk silver in a safe? Wow, you must either have a lot of space in that safe or a lot of junk silver - or some combination of the two....
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