If you read the entire thread it will explain why there are so many fakes. It's because years ago Reader's Digest magazine did a promotion and...
Eduard you're not barging in at all. I remember your coin quite well, and yes, it is the same variety as Conrads. That's specifically why I...
The list would fill a book, literally. Back then, common date Morgans in MS65 were selling for $1500. Today, you can get them routinely for $150.
Eduard - I'm the one who told Conrad (silvereagle) about Delmonte and taught him how to use the book. I also attributed his coin for him before he...
Absolutely. Toning and its changes are entirely dependant on storage methods and environment. They can occur gradually over a long period of time,...
No Mark, the only coins from my youth, that I managed to keep past my youth, were those same two coins that I polished up so diligently - a 1903...
This was a fad that started around 2001 and became popular for a year or two. You could get slabbed coins autographed by all sorts of people. For...
Ads like that, from that time period, are exactly why a whole lot of people lost their entire life savings by "investing" in coins. Today those...
That's what I was looking for. I wasn't too far off with my guess then.
Oddly enough, the English Noble was copied from an even older coin of the Netherlands. So the Netherlands Noble is a copy of a copy that was...
CHAMELEON - You ever hear the adage that a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing ? With all due respect, I think you are making an...
The debate to get rid of the 1 cent coin has been going on for 30 years or more. Yeah, 30 years. And it's not gonna be settled here on this forum....
Shows you how much attention I pay to them.
I stand corrected. Must be they are the only ones with the incuse mint mark then. I know they were a first for one of them.
I think more a case of not knowing how the system works than one of iressponsibility. But I understand your point. chip - when a coin is graded...
You misunderstand. Bill is just offering to show us, on a coin of his own, what this wiggle cut looks like. He doesn't need anybody to send him a...
It'c because they are being sold as bullion only, for whatever the gold is worth in other words. They aren't being sold as coins. And you always...
Post away Bill, show 'em a close up.
Now I'm probably gonna get forty eleven comments about how old I am because of this ( do so at your own risk :D ) - but I can actually remember...
Mike - when you are finally going to get into your head that the ANA are the ones who invented market grading ? The ANA has not practiced...
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