Fair enough sir, but do you think it still could be done if a person employed a buyers rep? I don't know any for world coins or I would suggest...
Fortunes were lost predicting correctly the dot com bubble burst and the housing bubble burst. It is never enough to be right on the idea, you...
Those are token, exomania, in which the item is semi currency, not stamped by government but by another authority. Those are a hybrid....
While the cheap ones for mercuries will be cheaper, I woudl think for a kid the barbers would be easier to obtain every date. There are no...
October 21st 9:39 am October 28th 9:39am Thanks! Chris
I buy from European auctions every year Doug. I would never buy unless represented though. US collectors should feel better about it by paying the...
I thought technically a medal was simply a stamped piece of metal without a government stamp of value that would turn the piece from a medal to a...
About and Good are commonly used modifiers for ancients. The continuum would be Fine, good Fine, About VF, VF, good VF, about XF, etc. I am...
Congrats to you Box, I remember the coins and they looked good to me. This kind of brings the point that most coins in slabs are the best...
Its a subject that should be brought up more often. Part of the problem is the US grading system, where an old AU58 was technically a superior...
Thanks guys for also saying they are replicas. I opened up the post and immediately the coins looked suspect. Besides the letter R and the...
I never claim to have any insight or wisdom Inflexion, just an opinion. In my opinion, what worries me a little on silver long term is the Implied...
Just curious, do you consider these massive coinages of ASE and other issues to be "used up"? This is the details in which these statements get...
I don't disagree with either point, just pointing out I really don't view the abberation of Hunt's action as a true price of silver in 1980. I...
I hear people say this, that gold is at an all time high but silver is not. I believe both are in nominal dollars if you agree that the Hunt's...
This is the perfect point. The dirty secret is that the US funds most medical research in the world by our high prices paid for drugs, prices...
I would think paying cost of production is nothing, missing out on seignorage would make most countries to print their own money. Seignorage is a...
Personally, to the extent I am seeing US pricing, I am seeing a lot of softness of traditional collector coins. Just my impression, but unless its...
I would say at least 99% of all of these coins are fakes. It was one of the first heavily faked Chinese silver dollars, the original has always...
For silver ancients, like Doug said Gordian III makes nice, large, bright silver coins in high grade for not a lot of money. Another option would...
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