I don't think they were actually fined, but they were bankrupted by a civil suit [in which I was one of the plaintiffs] that determined they had...
Commodity exchanges do NOT trade silver. They trade silver Good Delivery Bars - GDBs. At the time they also traded bags of $1000 face junk...
@ Clawcoins: "In 1979, the price for silver jumped from about $6 per troy ounce to a record high of $49.45 per troy ounce (on January 18, 1980),...
I think the 'close door' does work - as long as you have the "emergency responder" key turned on. And I have read that they actually do work all...
As others have said, a confusing situation. Here is my take [not necessarily accurate]: Items were going in the Heritage auction at a ridiculously...
The certificates you show are pretty common - generally go for less than $5 on eBay. You can check eBay "Coins and paper money/stocks and bonds"...
You are right that it makes no sense to say "Doubled Denomination". But when it comes to the double (or doubled) serial number, I have seen it...
Smiley face emoji noted, but I can't resist pointing out that there is the "Double Denomination" note - one value on the face, a different value...
One of the main reason people buy slabbed coins is that they do not want to overpay. They don't want to pay XF price for a VF coin, for example....
My definition: Scarce means you should be ready to pay a bit more than a common similar coin; rare means you need to be ready to pay a lot more....
Depends on the type of apocalypse. If it is just financial [as opposed to total societal breakdown], ASE's and AGE's may be nice to have. That is...
Good post. And I might add, that the post office has an operating profit in most years, but in it's wisdom, the edit Congress decreed that the...
When I started collecting [about 65 years ago] the old timers told me to clean my silver coins with baking powder! Not as bad as the Metropolitan...
Probably lots of reasons, conscious and sub-conscious, behind the Hunt's thinking, and the one you cite is probably one of the major ones. If I...
Keynes started his speculations in currencies. At first he was well ahead; then his investments went under water. That is when he made the...
Shorted silver at 15 during the Hunt brothers debacle of 1980. Took my losses at 25. Watched it go to 49, then drop to under five. To paraphrase...
Thanks. As I said, I am not an ancients collector, so I probably never would have found that page without your link. It looks like the "Concordia"...
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