Are coins an investment? In general, yes, coins are a bad investment.
I like the avatar Paddy . . . fits the reply perfectly.
And while you're at it @Doc J, please also note how few of the top 50 are large gold coins and how many are small gold coins. That aligns with...
Interestingly, 90% silver goes as you describe, but the gold market does not. I don't know where you get your data, but the premiums for large...
Actually, most counterfeit gold coins are of smaller denominations because, unlike larger gold coins, they sell at a much higher premium to their...
I still keep at least a dozen reminders of how deceptive good counterfeits can be, and could probably find records of another few dozen fakes I...
Surfaces have been altered. I've seen other coins offered by the same seller, and thought the same of those as well.
Good response. The deficit and the debt are two different things. The debt is how much we owe in total. The deficit is how much more that we...
You're wrong about that Christie. CoinTalk is a politically diverse community of collectors, and we consistently suppress controversial political...
Coming around? I've been a debt hawk all my life. I'm not sure what you think I was blind to, but if it will lead to a political discussion,...
I understood, and chose my words carefully. That was why I wrote, "if only the OP could . . ." instead of, "if only the OP would . . . " - Mike
Definitely cleaned . . . polished even.
There . . . I've flung the post to Coin Chat. Now, if only the OP could fling better photos, the poo-flinging might be averted, but I fear some...
Collectors come in all shapes and sizes . . . some are smarter than I think and some are not. Heck, as a younger collector I was pretty darned...
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. . . and some of the worst buying decisions can be made by trusting the photos available in the catalogues.
I'd venture that, if the hundreds of gold coins you've looked at were all raw, you've probably seen at least a dozen fakes and did not know it....
Tell that to the communist leaders of the former Soviet Union, and to the grateful citizens of the many liberated eastern bloc countries. The...
Oh, this is very sad, and a great loss to our community.
Most on CoinTalk seem genuinely concerned about our indebtedness, But there are some who almost seem to be cheerleaders for a failure of the US...
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