This coin spoke to me like few have. The luster, color, strike, and die anomalies make this example very special. [ATTACH] When I was presented...
My mother’s house was $110k, and it is quite nice. She’s been living there since 2003. I take it you are not really familiar with the real estate...
By that, I am referring to next summer, when I will (begrudgingly) get back to buying/selling to help pay for my last semester of school. Then I...
I am no longer buying and selling US coins. I just have a few more coins to sell that I bought a couple months ago. I have only bought two more US...
I’m not sure why I have to explain myself to you holier-than-thou contrarians. I no longer enjoy the pursuit of US coins. I no longer enjoy...
My point was that the coins are far more common than their prices suggest. Athenian owl tetradrachms are the same way. I am not paying $1000 for...
I was going off of the dentil relationship and the tilt of the 7, but that 5 is pretty hard to ignore. [ATTACH]
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My gut said fake when I saw the color and surfaces, but the date gives me pause. If it is fake, it is a die transfer of a genuine 1857 large date...
I like early (pre-1826) US coinage, but to get any of these in decent condition usually costs hundreds or even thousands of dollars. I have always...
Both are applicable to some degree
Ebay and facebook
I can’t tell you how many times I have wanted to just give up collecting coins completely. But I have isolated my frustrations to the US coin...
It was a tounge-in-cheek comment for GDJSMP. Also I was not complaining how well my purchases did during resale. I am just fed up with the US coin...
It has been fixed. We’re good to go :)
I was disappointed with my latest NGC order. Among their mistakes and 2-month wait time, this was labeled as a type 1. It graded EF-45 though.
Yes, being a coin dealer is extremely discouraging to me because I have to think of coins as a commodity. But it is a means to an end.
It can’t be. The left and right characters are not the same.
My gut said South Song, but I could not find a match. The closest match I could find is Minh Duc Thong Bao cast in Vietnam 1527-1530.
Fixed so you can stop whining.
Separate names with a comma.
