Silver has a much greater loss due to its inferior cost and as well as reactivity. Gold, I have read, is still about 99% in human hands all we...
Really? I own a few, but have always thought they were overrated. Yeah, nice and chunky, but never thought the design was much. Best thing about...
I love knowledge too, but I find having a coin from a particular culture or ruler gets me more engaged with the history. So yeah, my collection...
My wife always tries to wrangle me into a central Florida vacation each year by dangling the FUN show in my face. I have been there the last 3...
"Sets" are overrated. Most people I know who complete "sets" find the last few very unsatisfying. Coin collecting is the pursuit, not the finish...
A house or other real life things always need to be taken care of first. Personally, I have buying some double eagles around MS63 or so cheaply...
Looks like damage revealing the inner zinc core. Take a sharp object to a penny in your pocket and you can see this.
Yeah, I have thought about buying a group, as I am a firm believer of buying into hoards. Problem is, the type has never really interested me and...
THanks for the clarification. My eyes knew something was wrong, but reading your explanation explains to my brain what my eyes were saying, if...
Almost all of these are dated 1974 or 1975. It was a big thing then. Lincoln, of course, the most common.
Who owns and what happened to most silver ever mined? It is long lost to the ages. Silver is not valuable enough to remain 99% still in human...
Sogdian Traders, maybe one of the most authoritative books on the period, describes how all Chinese taxes were payable Persian silver. They used...
I would say that statement is a little exaggerated but true. A huge amount of silver net net moved to China via the silk road. Much of it was paid...
The Hmong fought Ghengis Khan? I must have missed that. I wouldn't have any other suggestions than there is a book about seige coinage out there,...
Lol, I was't going to cast a coin right there Doug. I was thinking of bringing a broken mold that was used 1000 years ago to make the coins, but...
Hmong coinage will be spread out amongst other books. Michiner might be your best bet for what he has, probably Non-Islamic State edition. There...
I would be at high VF. Scarce date, so I do not know if the graders would "upgrade" for that. I have never been a believer in raising grades of...
Lol, I have to actually put a similar set together tonight. My son is in Chinese immersion elementary school and I am going there Wednesday to...
Websites like these or a good book on error coins will be invaluable OP. If someone collects error coins, they need to become an expert exactly...
I liked him on some threads, not so much on others. I am with you. I love lively debates, getting out of the "old man" seriousness. Fatima as...
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