Looks like horn silver incompletely cleaned to me.
@Gam3rBlake I would be careful with your logic. To say "I paid too much but its worth more now so its ok" is a pretty weak argument. PM is PM. You...
Or Ireland either removes such a punitive tax, or move. My gosh, 23% tax on a purchase made with after tax money......ridiculous. I get mad as...
I like slabs for what they were supposed to be originally, a way of being able to handle a coin easily without fingerprints, a professional...
We all do. No one here knows everything, (well maybe @Barry Murphy ), but the rest of us plebs are here to share what we know and learn what we...
Yep. One of the oldest sayings in coin collecting is "if you do not know the coin, know the dealer".
Thankfully, it does not appear the Chinese have attacked our market segment. However, we have CENTURIES of history with fake ancients. Its not...
No doubt there has to be disadvantages. It simply appears from this side of the pond that the EU is going out of its way to try to enforce MAXIMUM...
I have followed Brexit all along. The EU is going out of their way to "punish" the UK for daring to leave. Its all about fear. The EU, if the UK...
Yes. $10 was $10, be it a GC, SC, fed note, an eagle, 10 Morgans, or 1000 cents. Any bank would give you change or exchange any legal tender items...
Yeah, but you forget sir I am a hoarder. A coin with me is a lifetime commitment. I can give away though. Maybe I should donate them to the Boy...
Especially for everything but the cent and half dollar. Those two seem to have the highest demand from set collectors. I have a pile of nickels,...
Eh, that is what you effectively have to do. Sell it as junk silver, and pay the premium AGAIN to get the coin. I simply removed them, (superman,...
I think it would depend on how persnickity you were about your "Type" set definition. I think most emperors have coins with but a few examples...
That is my understanding. All bills passed at face value. Some were US notes, some Fed Reserve notes, some silver cert. and some gold certs. All...
We can agree to disagree on the point, (I remember dealers wanting premiums on all old gold at those price levels where I lived), but the main...
I do not think so sir. I always read they were simply bills just like US notes or Federal Reserve notes, they simply had banking of specie...
Payment in gold was fulfilled since our money was backed by gold. Let's say they owed you $100. The interest paid to you could be a $100 bill, and...
All coin collectors should study the minting process. It makes your coins more interesting, and answers a bunch of questions. When a coin is...
I won't tell you how to get pretty rainbow toning, but will say sulfur, oxygen exposure, fresh silver metal, and heat are all factors. AT use too...
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