And sometimes the people who believe a company like that is a "value investment" ignore the warning bells. A company that is supposedly growing...
If it were me, I'd have carried those bags into the shop, in a backpack or whatever. There's no way I'd leave $50 grand in coins lying around in...
Oh my gosh, at first glance at that thing I thought I was looking at a cheap Chinese imitation!
I never heard the rumor that the geologist had faked his own death, although with Bre-X, I guess anything was possible.
How in the world did that Olympic dollar develop such toning?
At first, I thought your Cleo coin was this 50 piastres piece :)
Specific gravity is a measure of the ratio of density of a substance to water. Gold has a specific gravity of 19.3, meaning that is is 19.3 times...
A very pretty '21 Buffalo!
Well, according to Krause they made a billion coins of that date, so it's probably only worth exchange rate, which would be about 3 cents.
It's raw, and I bought it as an AU. When I compared it to my other Peace dollars, I became concerned because the luster looked different. So I...
Yes, it's mine. I bought it about 16 years ago from a dealer I had known since junior high. :)
All of the AU+ 1921 Peace dollars I've seen have looked like this-- no cartwheel effect to speak of. I don't know if that's typical for the date,...
Thanks :)
Just remember, they get paid whether you make money or not.
And then there was that company called Bre-X that "found" a "huge" deposit of "gold" in Indonesia, and its chief geologist fell out of a...
Actually, lead is much less dense than gold, and platinum is denser than gold. http://www.farm.net/~mason/materials/specific-gravity.html
1857 Flying Eagle cent
1913 2-mark coin from Germany commemorating German defeat of Napoleon
Denarius from the Roman Republic
"Since the discovery happened several millennia before the invention of writing, we have no evidence about how it was made. However, tin and lead...
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