Bad analogy, IHMO. On a playground, a pest can generally bug one other kid at a time. That kid can choose to walk away. On a site like this, a...
I've seen more than one person here recommend that all collectors occasionally sell some stuff, just to calibrate their expectations about value....
In a shop that doesn't specialize in coins and has a batch of cheap/badly-stored modern stuff, I'd have a hard time convincing myself that such a...
One risk, of course, is that you may not be able to find that knowledgeable buyer when you need to sell. Suppose you managed to land a...
I'm no expert, but I've always thought the year could come at the beginning or the end. Then again, I have to deal with international date...
For what it's worth, I fiddled a bit baking cents with a giant Fresnel lens and sunlight. Zincolns wrinkle and spill their zinc core; at the peak...
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$390, and the winner will think he got a bargain because it didn't go over $400. Good luck getting a "problem-free" PCGS AG03 for any less....
It didn't have layers to start with. A corrosive agent or oxidizer reacted with the coin's surface, long and hard enough to go fairly deep. This...
I think of counters and rollers as mashing the metal down, not gouging it away. So I'd expect to see remnants of the design underneath. I may be...
Then it sounds like, for you, it's time to sell. Is gold likely to go up in the future? Yes, eventually. Down, too. Soon? Hard to say. Soon...
Hey, depending on when you bought in 2013, that might even fit in the "post your $50 or under purchase" thread! (Of course, an ounce of silver was...
As I recall, gti2 lists tons of "survival silver" lots at well above melt value. I don't remember if he's one of the ones who sold silver "by the...
I might have too, but not at that level. (And that's why I don't get a lot of big wins.)
I dunno. Looks like the underbidder had been in it for a while, and put in a "nuclear snipe", but got out-nuked. The high bidder might have been...
Wait, what? Unless it's coming directly from a Congressperson's office, I don't think so.
This is the same argument used for .999 fine silver vs coin silver vs sterling and other scrap. The big difference is that gold is very easy to...
And if I'd listed those coins, the odds are good that I'd have missed the variety, listed them at what I considered a fairly hefty BIN, and been...
Still different from what I believed in the wake of previous discussions. I'm not sure if it's "illegal to hold" them -- there's no penalty as...
Did you know that every "real Federal Law" can, in fact, be looked up on the Internet? 18 U.S. Code § 489 - Making or possessing likeness of...
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