Several discussions here have mentioned that slabs for certified coins are not air-tight. I would assume that a copper cent that is certified as...
What's the downside? They cost very little (you could get 10,000 of them for $100) and they don't take up much space. I plan to save the ones I...
Don't forget that silica gel packs become saturated and have to be regenerated (by heating in an oven) periodically. How long they last depends...
MS62 RB and MS63 RB
Prescient advice I found this in a Consumer Reports Money Advisor from October, 2005. "Partial-ounce gold coins like the 1/10 ounce Eagle...
You are so definite about it. Where did you get your information? That's $1040 an ounce for gold. That's a lot more than the usual markup by...
I have only one each of the Jefferson proof and unc which I will not be selling. However, I have 4 complete sets of the MW and AA coins (16 coins...
Is it likely that would happen only on one face? The reverse is absolutely normal.
What does this say now about the $840 per ounce we paid for the First Spouse coins? That's only $30 over today's price of $810. I might just keep...
Thanks. I thought it might be gold-plated. I will save it just for the novelty. It only cost me 50 cents.
My bank finally got in some half-dollar rolls and they were more than glad to have me take them off their hands. ($120 worth). The whole set was...
All that "dividend stuff" has tripled my 401K plan in the past 4 years. I'm invested entirely in mutual funds which is a mixture of winning and...
You're leaving out dividends which can be reinvested resulting in compounding, something you don't get with gold which is simple appreciation....
In terms of 2007 dollars, gold was well above $2,000 an ounce in 1980. The peak price of $850 an ounce in 1980 was the equivalent of $2,150 an...
I'm from New Jersey, too, but in the northern part, near Morristown. Nobody famous related to coinage ever lived around here except some guy...
With the price of gold rising, even spot is approaching the original price of the coins. I plan to buy the Madison coin because I want to collect...
The term "Early releases" is the same fraudulent and deceptive crap that the term "First Strikes" was. This change in terminology shouldn't fool...
Probably no story can top that of the Collyer brothers who lived in a row house in Harlem early in the 20th centry. Both brothers were crushed to...
Where do you get rolls? My bank doesn't even stock them.
Today the US Mint began offering the First Spouse Bronze medals in sets of all 4 medals issued in 2007. These include the Dolley Madison medal...
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