I would call them up and talk to a person. If you explain it will all go into the trash and you aren't interested, a sane company would save the...
If, (and its a big if), they know enough to avoid fake slabs. The problem with slabs is they take the coin away from examination, so lots of...
The reason for the "buy the keys first" advice was that for decades keys went more more by percentage every year than average coins do. However,...
I agree the US was not the last at all. We might have have been the last major country minting high purity silver in the billions. Good list. To...
I think what you have is a "mint set" someone put together. I do not think the US mint made them in 1968.
Lots of coins I don't care for. I understand the economics of modern coins and low relief, but why can't they make collector coins in higher...
ETF has its place. Its a good way to invest in a metal when physical premiums are too high for instance. Right now, when markets are in doldrums,...
OP, there have been more issues than over the last couple of decades. In fact, I cannot recall a single instance where a dealer offers to store...
Doesn't make sense. Faking a coin for just a few carats of weight is not really worth it for a coin this size. People of Apmex have seen more...
Honestly, it is better to determine if its a fake of not by a picture of the coin. Do you think PCGS scratch tests coins sent to them? Btw, exact...
Um, are you sure you didn't just hit a section of imperfect metal mixing? I wouldn't suggest scratch testing, since by definition you have...
I would say you are assuming this coin was average for the grade IMHO. That is a big if, since all of us have seen over and under graded slabs....
I believe it was MArgaret Thompson's work on overstrikes that established the order Doug. I am with you that they may have been struck in that...
I agree. I think a lot of coins that are "dated" to a certain timeframe probably were struck for a period thereafter. A coin die was an...
Good ideas. I also believe you need to make it more interesting to non-collectors, (almost all of the rest of the world). My suggestion would be...
65, but a 65* with a very quick dip to make the surfaces more even. I very well could be wrong though, as I have never likely blotches of toning,...
To OP, silver dollars really aren't "junk silver". They haven't been for a few decades now. They always sell on a premium since people like large...
Regrets is why I am a hoarder. I haven't looked at my US coins in 20 years, yet they just sit in the bottom of one of the SDBs. I am sure it is a...
Hmm, you are the same age as me. :) I miss actually talking to other human beings. I loved being at the airport or on a plane and just getting to...
Nice Bactrian camel example JA. I need to spend some more time on my Kushan bronzes. I bought the remainder of the collection of the author who...
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