Wow. When even gold fund managers are confident enough to speculate that gold is going to go up, what clearer signal could anyone need? :rolleyes:
I just had a look in Bill Fivaz' United States Gold Counterfeit Detection Guide. This coin looks like a dead match for the counterfeit 1857 shown...
I forgot to set a snipe earlier this week for one that was titled "1942 P WALKING LIBERTY SILVER HALF DOLLAR". Thing is, it was for six of them,...
Find a coin on the sidewalk, and it's an immediate infinite return -- but that's not really "investment", is it? :) When I'm biking in to work, I...
By that "technical" definition, new jeans don't "shrink" when you wash them, either. :) You're welcome to refer to them as "thickened" or...
"Ever get the mood to tidy up?" Not. NEARLY. Enough. But that's been my battle for all my life. At least coins are much less space-consuming...
Standard weight is 11.34g. 11.5 is probably well within tolerance. How good is your scale? What weight does it give for the other clad coins in...
Instead of what?
That's beautiful. My previous job was in an imaging lab that had a couple of micro-CT machines; I regret that I never got to try imaging coins...
Especially since none of the clad ones are getting melted, and almost none of them are sustaining significant circulation wear. There will likely...
Let me attempt an on-topic summary, without the extra pages of discourse about what sort of discourse about discourse is appropriate in which...
Fastest and easiest: I'll leave this to someone who has more experience using acetone with coins. Latex: Not the worst choice, but really, it's...
Huh. I've never encountered one that charged admission. Admittedly, I don't get to many, and those I have attended outside of Raleigh were pretty...
Thank you for helping to keep things on track, particularly with your informative post upthread about the virtues of urban living (containing not...
And I still disagree. The circle of life in numismatics is the same as it ever was. Kids get interested when they find coins in circulation, or...
Let's put it this way. Dealers at our local show pay $100 to have a table from which they can deal; customers get in free. Do you really think...
I'd have to disagree here. It seems to me that it's been about this grey for a long, long time. I went to my first show over 40 years ago, and...
I can think of a lot of reasons that coin collecting might be weighted toward older folks. First, money -- typically, you don't have much until...
AKA "buy low, sell high"? :)
Funny, that. I just went back and re-read the first page of the thread, and yours was clearly the first post that "went negative". TheCoinGeezer...
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