Here's a silver round from 1973 I have, I think that may be the first year they started using .999 stamped on a coin. Although there has been...
As I looked at this example a little closer you can tell that it's been messed with and it don't even say .999. Oh well, back to the drawing...
Yes I've had a couple from the 80's that I sold, here's one from 1969. Anyone got anything earlier with .999?...
I am wondering how long the term .999 has been around in the world of numismatics? I'm sure it wasn't used in the 60's, does anyone know? ;)...
Two choices here Eye! Keep looking like an idiot or suck it up like a man and say you've learned a lesson from your experience and move on. I...
No doubt he's asking way too much money for it but it's certainly not out of the ordinary on ebay and as far as I know he's not violating any...
Interesting! In the neighborhood I used to live in "short snorter" meant something completely different. Suffice it to say that everyone who knew...
You got that right!! If I was Gil I would not have been able to keep my cool at all. EEW, I guess you think every forum in the world should...
The television coin auctions do that stuff for their unknowing customers as a sales gimmick, and it works!! Just like P.T. Barnum said years ago,...
I have a super nice slave token listed on ebay with a small starting price in comparison to the other tokens listed for sale, but you be the...
Cool coin site, WTG!!
I was talking to a friend about the beginning of ebay and what kind of impact it had on the coin industry. I mean there must have been some...
That is a really cool Florin. IMO too cool looking to take a chance on making it a ring myself, if I owned it I would frame it somehow and slap it...
I'm at work but here's a couple!! A 1980 silver onza and a Y2k coin from Liberia and one of that country's handfull that are actually .999 silver....
Yep and normally overpriced too!! :D
There are tons of sleeze bags like this dude on ebay and I'm glad to hear you're taking him to task! :D WTG!!
Hard to tell from scans as Racebannon said b/c the luster is diminished with scans and the luster is a must-er.:D It's definitely not an MS coin,...
I'll have to get the silver issue as my coin budget is depleted and I'll have to push this one thru the boss!! I'd like to get at least one gold...
Good looking coin, as far as private mints go! :thumb:
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