Getting back to the original topic... Current POS from Coinflation is $31.92. Here's a quick table of Coinflation "melt value", Provident buy...
That's what worried me the most, along with the denticles on the reverse from 3 to 6 o'clock. Somebody popped for it at $325, a few hours after...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Looks cast to me. Any chance a real coin could look like this?
His post count has decreased considerably since this morning. Someone's working clean-up (thanks!)...
I'd go beyond Chris's statement. A new poster shows up here, and his first EIGHT posts are resurrecting old threads to trash-talk a specific...
Like surfing around here looking at pictures and descriptions of coins we couldn't possibly afford? :) First, I don't think PayPal is the...
POS was a dollar lower at the time this auction closed. Looks like it went for exactly spot, within 1%, not bothering to do the math for the bit...
Maybe all three, but spaced out a bit so as not to monopolize the "recent threads" list? Nearly all my thread-browsing is through recent threads,...
Math check on aisle 1... :)
My fee calculator says 4.95% total for eBay and PayPal fees combined. Pretty sure that PayPal would choke on a single transaction that size,...
mebbe we should ask for a CoinTalk discount. :)
So I'm sitting here looking for bargains to pop up on BIN, and I see this: Complete 18-Coin 1909 Mint Set #1 PCGS Registry Barber Lincoln...
The "substantial discount" I usually see at local coin shows is around 30-40% below melt, compared to maybe 4-5% below melt for 90%. Those are buy...
It's got about the same proportion of silver relative to face value as other coins of the era. For the first couple of years, though, they were...
You're neglecting the cost of getting that nickel back out of the war-nickel alloy. As I've said in other threads, war nickels trade at a...
Hey, I remember your intro thread about that collection! For me, it was my grandparents -- they had a small assortment of older coins that they'd...
Gaahh! I'm guessing the chloride ions would make it attack the coins a LOT more quickly than plain vinegar. I might experiment with this with...
Wow, they were calling them Barber coins five years before he was even born? :)
I'd love to, but I have no idea what you were trying to say...
LOL! Any time you can get non-cull Morgans for $26 each, grab 'em with both hands. As for the premium stuff, I'm in no position to grade/price raw...
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