Question to OP - why are you buying? Because you want to collect, or amass a stack of bullion? The ASE is considered by some to be collectible...
GSA Morgans are cracked from their slabs every day and they still don't command much, if any, premium over a raw CC. The mintage is only one...
That's impossible to predict. Personally, I wouldn't pay double the value of a product that was released so recently. That seems like the very...
nice specimens. The Mexican varieties seem particularly hard to come by. Does anybody know if Japanese and Mexican dollars are faked as much as US...
Some Japanese trade dollars do. I don't know enough about them to know why some do and some don't.
Thanks for the info. I think I will be pursuing a set...I'll have to decide where to draw the line...the straits settlement coinage (of which I...
not at all. Much better pic. Thanks.
I'm not a big a European coin collector, but I find the English coinage to be both fascinating and attractive. I too have had difficulty finding...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] A French Trade Dollar - a Piastre de Commerce Indo-Chine dollar, discovered in the same cigar box as the British dollar posted...
I'm beginning to think that $24-$25 silver is the new normal. Once physical inventory catches up and the "fire sale" buying levels off, there...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] British trade dollar, discovered in a coworker's grandfather's old cigar box
There's merit and drawbacks to holding PMs in the home and offsite locations. Most people make their decision based on their faith, or lack...
Gold and silver dropped dramatically over the course of two days this month. A 10 day minimum holding period is problematic in a business where...
It's a short term buying binge brought on by a sizeable drop in prices. Silver will either rise back to the $30 range and buying will slow down,...
The cent and dime for all the reasons already mentioned.
My dealer claims that junk 90% gets melted every year, and 2011 was a good one for melting. Incidentally, he happens to believe the Franklin half...
Trade dollars are fun coins to pursue...I've got a soft spot for them. I recently came across a British trade dollar and French trade dollar. I'm...
Silver is used widely in solar panel applications, and a growing number of biotech applications. Gold's industrial use can be called...
There is not a single coin dealer or shop in my area that would sell any of the OP's coin grades listed at junk silver prices. JFK's and 1960s...
NGC has a free app with a searchable database of all their registered coins. If ANACS has a similar database, you don't need a photo - just the...
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