Having dealt with Russian customs on more occassions than I care to remember, I can say that I am fully versed in the difference between graft and...
None of the gold coins had very high mintages, even the more common non-commemorative gold 100 Schilling coins all had mintages of 50,000 or so...
Interesting article, on the periphery you could call it a Zeppelin medal in that Vom Rath was a supporter of that whole endavour.
Is it just me, or do my MS62s pretty much blow away the MS65s and MS66s in this thread?? LoL(!) But in all fairness, to truly appreciate the...
You'll notice they are pretty old holders, not a chance I could afford them either if I had to buy them in today's market. Maybe the Leopold 25...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]
OOoooooh. That would explain it.
Newest coin added to the collection, from Clark Smith. Two year issue, slightly better date of the two. Looks considerably nicer than MS62 at...
My biggest complaint has been the inability to select my own user name on the website. Just went to the new improved site, clicked on "forgot my...
A mintage of 20,000 isn't low mintage for ANY modern coin in my opinion.
Are you sure they are all gold plated? The Looney dollar looks like it is bronze plated. That would for-sure be a numismatic first! Kind of...
The aforementioned 1929 Albanian 100 Franga was never struck for circulation, only as a prova. Which, in Krause at least, is listed in a seperate...
Yup, it's in there, but I've never seen one in 20+ years of collecting Albanian gold coins. I've got every other gold coin struck under Zog...
Krause lists an 1926 issue of this coin. There is a 1926 issue of the Skanderbeg coin, but the Zog issue?? In 20+ years I've never seen one,...
Well, I guess that's one way of looking at it. I too have benefited from the same buy/slab/sell routine. I'm not so sure that works as well as...
Nice. Now go look at the PCGS registry set for the coin, and you will discover others graded as high as MS68, though many of them have some sort...
Very true, he's just another player among many in the hobby. My point being that many dealers act as if David Hall were some sort of larger than...
I've always thought Collector's Universe owning and operating both David Hall Rare Coins (along with a number of other coin related sales venue)...
In my own case, I suspect some of the hesitation comes from seeing photographs in hobby related publications with captions like "An obvious...
I can see where ancients would be even more problematic than modern coinage when it comes to TPG. Add in patina, and any number of other grading...
Separate names with a comma.
