American Platinum Eagles were first minted in 1997, when gold fell below $300/oz, and platinum was closer to $400. When the American Palladium...
Yes! Every time I see that dark color, I hope it's a war nickel. Usually, it is.
I... I just don't know. Maybe I'll miss some opportunities, but there's no way I'd consider sending money to someone who was in a situation like...
Nickels can turn all shades of brown, gray, and everything in between. Most war nickels (35% silver) turn a distinctive greenish-gray, but I've...
Good thing museums never get bombed, then, isn't it? ;)
That's a really tiny clip -- less than 1%? -- but I see what looks like a distinct Blakesley-effect dent 180° away on the obverse rim. Can you...
Yup, there isn't any copper "inside" to get "exposed" in a nickel, it's 75% copper/25% nickel all the way through when it's struck. Nickel is a...
At $15 over melt? Yeah, that's one way to preserve availability, isn't it?
I was super-annoyed that they did the diameter wrong on these pieces -- I wish they'd done them like the .999 Kennedy in 2014. But if I ever have...
Looks like a circulation hit to me.
I can go check new BIN listings in Coins and Paper Money, and I'll routinely see currently-circulating Lincoln cents listed for hundreds of...
OK, my mistake here -- when you said just now "have heard that many times before", I thought "that" was "shop owners lying". I went back to your...
Thing is, your message wasn't "think twice about doing business with this dealer", it was "think twice before buying gold maples". And you just...
And yet, the dealer told you and that other customer that it DOES matter, but only for Maples. I think he was lying. I think he'd try the same...
Bang up one of your AGEs or Krugerrands. Have one acquaintance take the banged-up one to the dealer, and another acquaintance take a pristine...
And if your house doesn't catch on fire, anyone else with a fireman's axe can do the same, with no particular rush?
Heck, I'd settle for finding a stack of 100 wrinkly, stained, stinky $100s.
If only that were true for the First Spouse gold issues.
Is the dime wider in diameter than others? Does it have reeding on the edge? If it's a true broadstrike, it won't have reeding. Nice finds!
Not seeing it at all here. With that kind of surface and these images, we're deep in ink-blot territory, I think.
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