So after the hammering at CNG, I had some hot money in my pocket. A friend showed me this one. As I love Elagabalus relating to the Emessa Stone...
Sorry to say, but my money would be on either falling in a hole somewhere or stumbling across something like drug smugglers and "disappearing" the...
I see the same. Go to a show and pick up a 70 and maybe a quarter of the time I see a mark that should have made it a 69. More rarely, I have seen...
Its a very important point Doug makes about fresh coins onto the market. Did you ever wonder why Morgans, (a not particularly attractive coin),...
I would agree. I do happen to own for some reason a 1926 Sesquicentennial half in Good. I have no idea what that story is. Must have been a pocket...
There is one dealer at a LCS here who has some circulated. However, most never entered circulation at all. Only a limited few were released into...
I would agree you bring both great knowledge as well as humor, I simply believe women have a different perspective on average than men. Some of...
This hobby has always been older white male dominated. I went to a coin show in the 1970's and it was mainly old white males. What does this tell...
I got just DESTROYED in today's auction, so no newp's for me.... :(
I agree. I wrote a thread about it about a year ago, how writers were "laying the groundwork" by postulating the grade. Who knows if this was done...
Lol. You have about the same "negative midas touch" as I have sir. If I knew for sure where to invest I would do so. Since I don't, I simply...
I would mainly agree sir. However, I would point out that the reason coins were dipped white was to prove there was no damage under the toning. I...
It is now, but when toned coins first started bringing good prices it was because collectors were appreciating the original, undipped surfaces...
What is sad to me, and I have said it all along since toning became popular, is how many perfectly nice coins are ruined to create fake toning....
I agree the buyer got a good deal, but I disagree with the original buyer "lost". How much enjoyment did the original owner gain from owning them?...
The term comes from bags of Morgan dollars. When coins are in a bag, during movement they tend to hit each other and make little dings on the...
I find a lot of new collectors, when seeing 1960's coins, believe the coin is unusual. In the 1960's the mint actually struck coins with relief,...
I was just at a local coin show Sunday and a couple of dealers had junk halves for 13.8x. One had probably 1000 halves in his pile for sale, WL,...
I agree. The second coin especially looks a little "baggy", but could be the slab. To me, any slab is simply an opinion of grade, one which I may...
Could it happen naturally? Yeah, but it would be exceedingly rare. I would be a lot more comfortable with it if there were a touch of progression,...
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