I found something I had been searching for for years at the first table at a show. Jumped on it. Continued around the room and found a better...
While I suppose this could conceivably be an inconvenience in some jurisdictions, we’re talking the UK here. To my knowledge they have most...
While not hard to acquire, I can't endorse supporting night hawks. When I visited the wall several years ago I brought with me a Hadrian...
You lose so much not having the coin in hand. For example, IF 11 o’clock on the obverse is 5 o’clock on the reverse then it’s a tilted strike....
I only buy from established well known sites and dealers. Of the dozen or so fakes I have unwittingly purchased (I have intentionally bought some...
These Baetyls caught my interest because they are likely meteorites, another hobby of mine. I should imagine a stone falling from the sky would be...
This coin has sharply struck XF features, yet the individual who prepped it thought leaving a layer of black “patina” (which would safely dissolve...
I saw this kind of thing years ago when I sold a different type of collectible on eBay. Sometimes auctions were runaways. Bidders competing like...
From that photo it’s impossible for me to tell. It could be an overly cleaned corroded real coin. Or it could be fake. Photos are never sufficient...
As a point of reference, it takes about thirty years of constant usage for a freshly minted modern coin to wear to the point it is less than Good....
Beautiful coin. Pharos is a favorite of mine as well. My first and only auction win was the drachm. Didn’t know any other representations of the...
I don’t have any aurei, gold or otherwise. But I will share this as I find it fascinating. [IMG] Ionia, Uncertain Circa 600 BCE 1/24th Stator...
It doesn’t appear to be a die match to a known Allectus fake as far as I can tell. The only thing I see from the photos is it looks a little...
I don’t have many coins, but octobols are something of a passion of mine because I can enjoy them without glasses. Mine weigh 84.55, 87.208 (not...
The coin also looks smoothed. I’m not trying to be negative here, but with so much done to it I’d personally worry that there may be active bronze...
If you are referring to VCoins or MA-Shops, the sellers are (almost) all reputable and dealing in good faith. The chance of a fake is low. If one...
If you don’t like it now I doubt you will like it more once it has been cleaned. The lighter brown in the corrosion pits on the reverse looks...
Generally speaking, copper oxides like cuprite (red patina minerals) won’t naturally form on copper carbonates like malachite (green patina...
The sad part is you don’t need gradeflation. Think deBeers. It’s an unregulated market where all you need to profit is change (rimshot).
Having gotten too close to this quite by accident in its formative years, I cannot stress to anyone seriously contemplating investing in modern...
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