My main collecting interests nowadays are ancients and bullion. So I haven't really seen declines. I still have my US coins from a few decades...
Looks like it was "pinch in" around a backing plate, possibly with a ring to hang it as a pendant. I have seen coins mounted that way from 100...
Yeah, but is it really the mint's fault? Who the heck can use government union workers and manufacture something for less than a cent nowadays,...
I wonder if it was a microscopically coated piece, with silver or PT, like a lot of the "cladless" state quarters.
Wow, that is a pretty deceptive fake. Its been a few decades since I collected these, but this one wouldn't have been flagged by me if I saw it on...
I do not see how you think it's a scratch on the die. Both pics show coins with incuse marks. For this to be on the die, it would have to raised....
Just a question, (forgive the ignorance). If it is unpublished, what links this coins to the Visigoths? Many other civilizations struck imitations...
This comic is exactly what I thought of when @Kentucky posted, so glad you posted it. I think we all get to that some days, hopping from place to...
It is toning. Remove it with a coin dip. I agree with @Suarez it is interaction with Sulphur, most likely paper but any paper source. Fresh silver...
The "world" to that manager might be running out of gold, but his "world" is probably means close to the surface, very rich deposits like they...
Interesting set. I bought some of them for the kids. Edit: No offense meant by this, they are pretty well done just not in my collecting interest.
I apologize if I derailed your fine thread sir. I have edited my previous post. I just get upset what is happening to this hobby from all of these...
I have had the same argument about genuineness of ancients in NGC slabs. I have literally waited for dealers to look it up at the NGC site that...
The saddest part of all of this is that everyone reading this will pay for these fakes. Some will enter the hobby, read they should protect...
My wife can translate it tonight. I have most references, what is the diameter? Btw, sure looks like Rama V to me.
This could be a way to do it, if you want. It surely is not the only way sir. I buy coins for what they ARE, not grade. I would challenge nearly...
I agree. As long as a person is not betting his family's future, buy what your heart buys. Every coin I own is with "waste it" money, since I will...
I wonder which way to read this chart. It easily could be an indictment of the political indoctrination of the university system in America.
I don't think its a dead horse. Your original post was talking about atheists possibly objecting to the phrase. I posted an article talking about...
To me this is a tough question. I own maybe 2-3,000 ounces of junk, (don't judge me that I don't know lol). So I basically stopped buying it, its...
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