[ATTACH] [ATTACH] This is an interesting coin that turned up recently which was recovered from the SS Central America. It is an 1854 Chilean One...
Wow 75 years collecting , fantastic! I will never reach 12000 posts but God willing may reach 75 years collecting, I am on year 60.
On page 2 of this forum you will read about the sinking of the SS Tilawa. See https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-shipwreck-corner.417027/page-2...
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This is my AI answer ( not me ) This is specifically, a Merovingian silver denier or an closely related early Anglo-Saxon sceat (sceatta) dating...
That's what I thought had happened but clearly this was not the case with Randy, sadly nothing surprised me any more with auction houses.
On Ebay I use Auction Sniper because if there is something stupidly described, if you bid you attract attention and then the bids pile in. My bids...
Hi @Randy Abercrombie . Don't be disillusioned. Probably means they are honest! This is how it works. You bit $300 but someone bid $400 the day...
Coins are likely shipwreck coins @Chris B . If they have been cleaned and show environmental damage they likely to have never reached Spain. If...
I just noticed that today is the first anniversary of the day I started this thread.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I was pleased to pick this coin up at a South African coin auction recently. It is a gold 1/3 Mohur (5 Rupees) of the Madras...
I have some similar issues and had some great advice on this recent thread @mrweaseluv...
Personally if you like the coins I would pay spot silver + 50% as silver is likely to increase by the time you sell (hopefully) . I’ve learnt that...
If anyone could recommend one, I'm in too. I'm not too concerned about Chinese knockoffs because half of the luxury goods we buy and most of our...
[IMG] [IMG] A Britannia and that is purely for one specific reason. In the UK if I bought this coin for $50 and it increased in value to $200...
You are absolutely right @-jeffB I was looking at this :...
You can get an XRF tester for under $2000 and they are not radioactive so perfectly safe. In a couple of weeks I will post about how an XRF tester...
If it was my coin and I sent it to NGC they would call it scratched. Is it a raised line?
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] If you had asked me a few years ago where the nation of Niue was, I would have struggled, as I had...
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