They're using them to rack up frequent flier miles. Apparently you can buy the coins from the mint for face value and free shipping, get the...
Nice.
Yeah Hawkwing, Fox Valley Coins is where I go. It would probably be worth a trip for you and it's right off of Rt. 59. They have a lot of higher...
I picked this up today - it's a 2 centavos coin from a Colombian leper colony in 1921. Things like this are what I love about coin collecting....
The OP's experience sounds a lot like mine too, with a few key differences. The shop I go to is mostly buying and selling silver and gold because...
Some examples: http://cgi.ebay.com/1980s-BRASS-CINCO-PESO-MEXICAN-COIN-LOT-2-/280704728327?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item415b4e3d07...
Generally I'm looking at Mexican and British coins. Sellers tend to frame the listing like "10 pesos Mexican coin" is all you'd ever want to know...
... to put the year of the coin in the description? This should be the most obvious thing when you're trying to sell something is to give all the...
I'm with you on this. Everything I bid on is only a few bucks, but when you win a few auctions every day it starts to add up. And sometimes I bid...
I agree with the people who said that BIN is usually overpriced, and if you use eBay a lot, you come to expect that. I still buy coins with it,...
You're lucky. I've been searching for this one for my Mexican collection for months now with no luck. I'm looking for a bargain though.
Thanks everyone!
I need help identifying this coin. The side that appears to have the denomination looks a lot like a Sudanese coin I have, but the side with the...
I can't think of any reason a person would ever roll coins in the gimmicky way you see all these eBay rolls if they weren't planning to sell them...
thanks, that does help. To be clear, is that the buy or sell price?
Those other people weren't necessarily dishonest - eBay charges a lot of fees so if they do a deal outside eBay then can sell for less and still...
If you're really a collector then this is just natural. Maybe some people can just get that one set and then move on to fishing or model...
Without going into the details, someone who doesn't know much about coins has some Kennedy silver halves to sell and was asking me how much they...
Recently I saw a thread on here where someone wanted a coin but couldn't find it and someone else offered to get it for him and trade for it. It...
I see a lot of these Napoleon III coins from the mid 1850s in the value bins. Usually they are pretty worn and you are lucky if you can read half...
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