Grab bags are a waste of money... There are no 'trustworthy' ebay sellers of grab bags. There is no 'chance' you will get a good deal. If...
I would say MS60
that Bowers really knows how to sell a book!
I have one set - coins that I have purchased and not sold. :p
Late 1700's english guinea in better circulated grade.
everyone who collects coins knows how to grade coins - fewer of those people know how to do it according to the market accepted principles - far...
In my beginning years (I know, I'm still in my beginning years) of collecting coins, I purchased a small bag of canadian large cents at an auction...
semantics, really. restoring a coin is cleaning it - in this case by experts who are professionally trained. For shipwreck coins and ancient...
I've been thinking about the differences of 'coin collectors' vs. 'coin investors', and I found myself wondering just how many of these people who...
I think there is really only one wrong way to collect, and that would be to go into the hobby with the expectation to make money in the future....
as they say, Simon, truer words... excellent post.
I imagine that if everyone in the 30s and 40s were coin collectors, not only would that walker be in the same condition it is now - it would have...
positive or neutral? Man, that's bait and switch - and that's a hands down negative feedback, if you ask me. Problem there is that I'd wager...
amen to that! I think this guy earned his name... estateDOCTOR
I could buy obnoxiously high grade coins, I guess... I choose not to, because I can by ten times that in high grades of circulation. To me, there...
I would suspect this is probably due to the fact that higher grades of MS cause exponential price increases, so a rip is more difficult to...
I'm not familiar with this coin, but what made you conclude that it is lead?
sounds to me like you are collecting just the way you like it - which makes it the ideal way to collect. You aren't alone in sticking to slabbed...
That's funny - classic Mike. I like the magazine... Mike did forget about the fancy wallet card and the secret handshake.
The tough part about large cents, if you believe what's out there in reading material, they are not uncommon victims of coin doctoring - even in...
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