What truly amazes me, is when two identical coins in the same grading service holder are auctioned off with the inferior coins fetching multiples...
I have the big brother of the series, the 100 Franc crown in BU listed on eBid if you want it. It's raw, but a pretty nice looking coin....
They do if the goverment sells off their 2 trillion in US bonds and distributes it to everyone. Or do you doubt the communists would ever do...
If only the attempted punch could tell us its story.
Sending modern coins in for grading is a waste of money in my opinion. It's almost like a woman asking if a particular garment makes her caboose...
Shareholders aren't generally able to influence the day to day opertions of a company. In the case of PCGS, they are owned by a holding company...
Agree. I have coins in both holders, but the fact that NGC is independent and not owned by coin dealers who might get preferential treatment...
Yup, there are dealers out there who will still do it for you. The guy I deal with here in KC even splits the shipping costs with me when he has...
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The real reason coin dealers are no longer interested in submitting coins to PCGS: There's no money in it for them. At one time, dealers had all...
Auto doesn't seem to work well up close anyway. At least not on my lens. I typically have it in manual and adjust the camera (via tripod) to get...
The Russians counterfeiting ducats was simply a matter of expedience. The coins were of full content, and widely accepted. Much more so than a...
I'm using a Canon 50mm with satisfactory results. With the ring flash attached, you get that "UFO about to land on the slab" effect which can be...
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Very interesting. I have only seen a couple fakes make it into slabs, and in both cases they were also Russian coins. One was an extremely rare...
Well, got my prova back from NGC. The good news; --it's real. The bad news; -they claim it's an AU58. Was really hoping for an MS60 or MS61....
And do you think I would win? Or would I have to be a 94 year-old woman in order to convince the judge I was taken advantage of? I suspect...
Probably all true, and a great reason why keeping savings in the form of gold in a safe deposit box makes so much more sense. Just the anonymity...
Agree. The whole "China is the world" theme has already become so 2007. As in dated. If prices realized for Chinese numismatic material are any...
Agree. The long decline began in 1961 when Reagan was still a democrat. Few people realize it today, but the Soviet Union was the second largest...
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