According to today's CDN, the police have arrested five suspects in this murder/robbery! Congratulations to the police!
But how do prospective bidders get pre-screened on high-end coins? No auction company wants jokers queering their deals. I remember a friend's...
All they need is a name, adress, phone number, and their IT experts can probably get the rest.
I was wondering how auction companies prevent either insolvent or non-serious bidders from bidding on lots in their auctions? It is relatively...
Agreed! There are coins that only come around once in a blue moon. Do we allow family members to kibbitz on our other financial decisons? Yes...
This from "Sovereign Society" recently, clarifying a possible reason for the tumble in the gold price: "And on the last day of February, just a...
If yoiu are looking for common date $20s there are a ton at historical lows. The rare dates in MS63 are extremely hard to find. You are lucky to...
I don't know how he works the ploy and whether he gets people to fall for it. People see a rare date coin that should sell for a lot more. They...
Very suspicious when rare coins worth many times more than the common ones are being offered at common date prices. When called he said something...
As a Coinplex member I have gotten their daily/weekly bulletins on buy/sells, stolen goods and warnings on bad dealers. The Greenberg warnings...
Are you? If you call for them they aren't available. It used to be the scammers on Coin World would offer uncertified rarities at impossible...
It says "We do not have the heart to make a profit on the estate so we are working on a small brokerage fee. The family's loss is your gain."...
I called him and he said that the coins offered at those prices are based on notional auction results etc., i.e. sorry but availability is...
Here are some inexpensive places to stay in Baltimore, for those on a budget:...
I have been seeing Mr. Greenberg's ads in Coin World (p.109 March Trends) and elsewhere, anyone here have experience with him? He stated in his CW...
You go armed with a lot of knowledge, an empty stomach and some bucks. I ran into a dealer there years ago who had sharp vision and who bragged...
Well, one of my sisters makes reference to "Silas Marner" and a brother uses the term "shyster" occasionally. Basically they want me to make...
My father worked at the Danbury Mint as a director of special projects, working with Roger Tory Peterson and Eric Sloane on various projects. But...
"Bluebook" is also interesting, kind of like "Bluesheet" more a wholesale than a retail guide. Redbook pricing is high, similar to PCGS and NGC...
I don't know if this is a cultural thing, but there really wasn't much coin or bullion collecting in my family background with the exception of my...
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