Not much, maybe $5 or so.
Probably not as high as they did. I dunno, depends on how bad those scratches look in hand. But certainly no higher than 64, and if they really...
I think the machines work on color mostly and the way certain substances reflect light. So the slab should have no or little effect.
I think your answer is pretty simple Matt and will soon become very evident if you run a few more coins, any coins, through that XRF machine.
Patience is a very good thing when it comes to buying coins. And trust me Petro, that money is NOT going to burn a hole in your pocket ;)
Owle, generic gold is following and has been following the spot price of gold for several years now. You can say whatever you want, but that is a...
If you want to call them traps, OK, whatever. But if you do what I told you and remember what I told you, you can walk right by most of those...
You're asking a lot of different questions, and nobody knows the answers to most of them because nobody has a crystal ball. But the one question I...
Are you sure those are all contact marks ? Or could a lot, or even some of them, be the toning itself making you think you are seeing contact...
Honestly ? I think coin forums had more to do with it than anything else. Coin forums for the most part didn't even exist until the late '90s. And...
No idea. Your question is based on the premise, or perhaps assumption would be a better word, that prices are still going up. A better question...
Owle, the slide as you call it, isn't really a slide. It's nothing more than generic gold doing exactly the same thing it did over the past few...
Yeah it does. There are no shortcuts to knowledge. You either study and learn it or you don't. If there were shortcuts they wouldn't have colleges...
Just remember this - with older raw coins, 80% of them are problem coins of one kind or another. So when you go wandering through a coin show,...
The white stuff is verdigris, or it used to be anyway. Sometimes when people try to clean verdigris off a coin it can turn that whitish color. And...
When it comes right down to it toning is corrosion. So yes, those coins being out in the elements were toned, from being out in the elements. But...
Tell ya what Petro, if I were you I'd wait and keep looking. There are nicer examples out there and lots of them - and for the same money. And if...
Chris it's no different than with the definitions of any word. People always have "their version" of what a word means. And often "their version"...
Then you are missing a LOT ! You have no idea how much more there is to be found in books over and above what you can find on the internet.
There were many years that I spent way more on books than I ever spent coins. Some of my books are even worth more than many of the coins I used...
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