We have gone over this you and I, I will just say its probably not optimal mathematically, but seems closer to optimal by giving a structure to...
Cloud, you can cover your eyes since I know you hate this recommendation, but I would recommend dollar cost averaging into silver. IF you have no...
I admit I like worn bronzes like this a lot. I always thought what it would be like to have brand new ones, and I seriously do not think I would...
I was going to ask the same. I have had families bring me entire collections that were mostly cleaned and/or grossly overpriced that their father...
Investing in the mining companies has problems, and if Mr. Paul does indeed invest in PM mining companies on their own I personally am now very...
Before I saw the slab I was going to guess gVF/aXF, (leaning towards gVF) depending on how it looked in hand. I see wear flattening designs on all...
Considering its graded by PCGS, I would imagine the area Doug highlighted and the dots I mentioned are toning. While the pic looks flat, without...
But that is the entire purpose of having a standard. I look up stuff on the internet and find wrong information all of the time. There is no...
That's what I meant, if the slab said S and it looked like a D I would be hesitant to second guess them, but labelling it a P when it clearly has...
While I like the cd's and think they are helpful, I am a hard copy kind of guy. The Krause's have life sized photos of coins which I find very...
I know it sounds like I was talking out of both sides of my mouth, sorry. I will 98% of the time go with whoever sees the coin, but with the...
Like Doug, I would go with the TPG, (or any experienced dealer/collector), who has the coin in hand versus someone looking at a photo. Being able...
Fair enough, but it is hard to be determinative. OP, I would take the half to another dealer and ask about these things. Either that or a...
I am just not good at telling harsh cleaning from photos. To me the potential problems I saw were what you described on the reverse and the 5 dots...
Ah you New Yorkers and being able to actually meet fellow board members.....Must be nice! :) I am stuck out in "the middle". At least we have one...
I would suggest this as well sir. Official presses are rare and expensive. Why buy a press when you could have them make them to your specs?...
It looks like the reverse should be turned a quarter turn counter clockwise. Other than that I have never seen anything similar in ancients, and...
I just see XF's grading AUs, and AU's grading 62, (TPG grader confirmed this in a recent NN article), and 63's grading 65 nowadays a lot. I don't...
I would go AU53 as well, especially in today's grading environment. I read this post earlier and guess I am just flabbergasted. I haven't kept...
Collectors collect. Even if I were having a harder time I would find ways to collect SOME kind of coins. :)
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