Good call-out, guys. To clarify a little bit, by "hoard" I do NOT mean "keep most of your net wealth in cash", and by "inflationary" I do NOT...
If you're hoarding fiat, you're doing it wrong. If you're hoarding fiat change, you're doing it doubly wrong. Clad coinage has a "melt value" of...
Just one question: who decided that a large-dollar-sized coin deserved a dime-sized mint mark?
I immediately saw the one big red flag that's easiest for me to recognize: @Jack D. Young started a thread about it! ;)
Not as I understand it. It's a machine hiccup, not a die state change. https://www.error-ref.com/machine-doubling/
The markets can stay irrational longer than we can stay solvent, and the fan can stay clean longer than any of us can keep breathing. It's good to...
Classic fatty devices, classic Beijing toning.
From what I've seen, with a little patience it's not hard to find common double eagles at low premiums. For eagles and half-eagles, I'm not sure...
Sure is great, though, for people who bought when the premiums were lower. I'm probably not under water on any of my (few) ASEs at this point,...
Trying to do some quick mental calculations about crush strength to figure out just how much stuff is in some of those boxes -- looks like it's...
How do you find time, between opening all those boxes? ;)
Yep. They clearly screwed up the label because it disagrees with itself, but the Accented Hair attribution does not match the coin.
Hmm... apparently I was in that thread. How embarrassing. To be fair, it has been a while.
I'm trying to figure out how they could've gotten the attribution AND an MS grade onto the same label. Is someone faking ANACS slabs now?
Oh, it's a special trinary at that, where each digit is an integer multiple of 3! ;)
This all sounds quite... organized, doesn't it?
Point your friend to PCGS Photograde. ;) Looks like a solid F to me, assuming it hasn't been cleaned (can't tell from these photos). I see all...
All those years with more money than time, and all those coins. Aren't you glad now that you were buying coins, and not, oh, say, designer...
It is gold plated, which makes it "collectible" in the sense of magazine ads and TV infomercials, but just "damaged" for actual coin collectors....
It's not "overgraded" and it's not "not genuine", and it looks to me like those are the only two failure modes where their guarantee covers "loss...
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