I would have been dumbfounded if the "industrial use" had NOT decreased, what with a crushing recession reducing nearly every sort of...
No, it meant you could trade it in for one silver dollar, containing somewhat less than an ounce of actual silver.
Now, don't be snippy...
Thanks for the detailed explanation, coinman. I've been mostly buying lots at or near melt, and picking out any treasures I come across, but it's...
How do you figure?
Coinman0456, are you speaking as a dealer or as a collector?
Numismedia lists FMV of $81 in VG8. I don't know how to translate those prices into retail or collector-to-collector expectations. I generally...
Based on Photograde, looks VG-10 to me, but I'm not an accomplished grader. What's your question?
I feel confident that one day, probably in the next few decades, we'll see an enormous melt of nickels. It's hard to imagine something like the...
$200 CWR of halves, or so I thought, this afternoon -- turns out 5 of the rolls were short, so not only was I skunked on silver/proofs/NIFC, I'm...
Or they could, you know, say something about an 8% eBay Bucks promotion on their web site. Maybe in the same spots where they incessantly flog the...
Stay tuned, EyeEatWheaties. There are a couple more "collection" items that I've bid on and won, and I'll be telling those stories in the next few...
I really can't see anything there other than off-kilter color balance on the entire photos -- compare the background on the first and third with...
I've been tempted to try it if only for the $10 back on your first transaction. What's the deal with 8%? eBay really could do a better job of...
And the polishing. Don't forget the polishing.
Okay, I won't drag this one out -- this one turned out to be more or less as advertised. The SLQ was advertised as 1920, but if it has a date, I...
There sure are. Some of them price things way too high, and those auctions sit, bidless, until they expire. Some of them price things way too low,...
...just popped up: 1920-s Liberty Walking Half.High Grade Hmm. You don't suppose... nah. It couldn't have been cleaned. Lady Liberty's...
Ugh. I was heading into the grocery this afternoon, and saw that an attractive young woman was getting ready to dump change into the CoinStar....
Without "skipping ahead to the answer", I'll say that I only return items if they are "substantially not as described". One of the down sides of...
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