There's a few different ways. One is if the coin is stored in a loosely fitting acrylic holder, repeated movement within the holder can cause...
Typically, for a coin to be of great value it has to at least be part of a set. And there also has to be enough of them to make a market. So when...
20% ? Not really. There are plenty of coins that have dropped 50% or more in the past 2 years.
Way cool ! :cool: I didn't think there were any more of those out there, thought they were all accounted for. Seems they were not !
I didn't think of it until a few hours after I posted but I made a reference to a Henri D'Or - and it isn't of course. It's a Franqois D'or....
Body-bag material if you ask me.
Well not exactly, it's a bit more complicated than that. If what you said was true - how did Fisher win ? And on land it's more complicated than...
Unless I'm blind, that coin did not have the star designation. But OK, I get your point.
I agree Green, and that's the point I have been trying to make all along. People toss around the word expert like they do the word rare....
Not really. What you are thinking of was a reference I made to what a ducat would have been worth in US money back when ducats were still being...
OK - why ? Because he wrote a bunch of articles ? Writing articles doesn't make you an expert, it just means you write articles. Mike writes for a...
Yeah, a coin here or a coin there, you're right. But what about the guys like Mel Fisher or any of the others that have found shipwrecks &...
Thought I made that clear - for the toning.
Love it !! :thumb: Another one I always wanted but never got.
That diamond paste, it's placed on the zinc plates. It is mentioned several times in the articles. It is also mentioned that they use different...
That depends on the buyer to a large degree. Some folks have no problem paying up for problem coins, others do. It also depends on the problem,...
No, you need to watch what I actually say much closer - instead of what you interpret me to be saying. And I mean what I have said in in other...
As does just about any other govt., including our own. But since they make it the law of the land, it's not really considered stealing. And since...
OK Paul - I'm gonna guess you paid about $600 for it. My reasons for that are simple, it's pretty coin but not extravagantly so. So the premium...
The process is documented, that's how I found out about it. But you will find very few references to it. I had to search and search through many...
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