I have some similar issues and had some great advice on this recent thread @mrweaseluv...
Personally if you like the coins I would pay spot silver + 50% as silver is likely to increase by the time you sell (hopefully) . I’ve learnt that...
If anyone could recommend one, I'm in too. I'm not too concerned about Chinese knockoffs because half of the luxury goods we buy and most of our...
[IMG] [IMG] A Britannia and that is purely for one specific reason. In the UK if I bought this coin for $50 and it increased in value to $200...
You are absolutely right @-jeffB I was looking at this :...
You can get an XRF tester for under $2000 and they are not radioactive so perfectly safe. In a couple of weeks I will post about how an XRF tester...
If it was my coin and I sent it to NGC they would call it scratched. Is it a raised line?
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] If you had asked me a few years ago where the nation of Niue was, I would have struggled, as I had...
Here is some more information @LakeEffect I just added a post to the Shipwreck Corner...
The loss and recovery of the SS Egypt treasure. [ATTACH] On 19 May 1922, the P&O ocean liner SS Egypt departed Tilbury, Essex, bound for...
You are absolutely right @LakeEffect , dangling on a wire hawser with the chance of getting hung up on the wreckage wouldn't be "my cup of tea"....
[ATTACH] This image is from David Scott’s classic book, The Egypt's Gold, and shows the first salvaged coins from the SS Egypt being cleaned;...
I collect a lot of things including shipwreck and medieval so here we go. For a collector of shipwreck silver, every coin is a physical survivor...
Outstanding !
I think 3 too.
I must appear American @GoldFinger1969 :playful: The other main issue for me is that it takes at least three months to get anything graded and...
That's a good point @GoldFinger1969 , my problem over here is that it costs more like $70 to grade so I wouldn't even consider grading circulation...
@daveydempsey that's good to know, thank you. The three Morgan's I considered grading were in Leuchturm Quickslabs which I guess were the slabs...
Sounds like a plan @ddddd and I will take your advice and that of @johnmilton and others. Thank you all.
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