Be sure to buy a decent sized desiccant for your safe. Fireproof safes are famous for getting very musty over time...like mine did.
The price the seller paid for the coin is irrelevant. Just make him an offer that you are comfortable with and leave it at that. Hopefully you...
Thanks! The unit was $28 or so with free shipping on feeBay. Takes a couple of weeks to get here from China, but I've been satisfied with it so...
Would bubbles under the copper account for the nearly straight diagonal line that runs from Lincoln's temple through his ear? The line is at the...
For those of you who were curious, the coin went for $35 plus 13% buyers premium (39.55) (plus shipping of course!)
I'm sure Shirdi Sai Baba is startin' to get a little ticked off that he's doin' all this work, and Evan Rofheart is cleaning up! You'd think the...
Hi all, I was thinking of springing for one of these strictly from an investment point of view:...
The best advice I can give with regard to investing in anything is a concept called "dollar cost averaging". Here is a link that I thought was...
Just got my new, cheapo USB microscope Friday from China (of course), and decided to pull it out today and play a little. I remembered that I had...
Also, I've started avoiding sellers who post such poor, blurry photos. Granted, I'm no expert at photography, but at least I know that my point...
Here is the nickel and the cent. Please let me know if you want photos of the reverses. Thanks! [ATTACH][ATTACH]
Hi folks. I recently purchased this at auction advertised as a 1960 6-coin Canadian Mint set. I don't know a great deal about Canadian coinage,...
Holy smokes! He originally listed it for 99¢ :eek: I just remembered that in addition to my penny jar, which probably has 2000 lincolns in it,...
I did a quick search of the forums for this but didn't see anything posted about this. Heritage auctioned off a 1992-D "Close AM" last month for...
Thanks Conder! I was not familiar with bulk submissions, and how they work. I guess when you back a truck up to the back door of NGC and dump...
Auction doesn't start for 2 more weeks, so there are no bids on it yet. They are just now putting their catalog together. I haven't been able to...
Saw this coin up for auction: [ATTACH] Is this an early predecessor to "Details" slabs, or "Improper Cleaning" slabs? I've never seen an NGC...
Seems to me if they were "bubbles", they would have existed on the planchet and the press would have stamped the die directly onto them,...
Paul von Hindenburg had a mug only his mother could love. Fortunately, I just sold this one! [ATTACH][ATTACH]
Another source is...Amazon! I have always wanted a copy of Krause's 2011 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000. I put it in my cart and then...
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