Fair enough sir. I am sorry if it came off poorly. I honestly was doing it on purpose, trying to scare the OP away from trying to take chances on...
Lots of fakes. This advice works if the OP is an expert in the series and can tell the fakes from good coins, knows how to tell a cleaned coin...
This one is not so straight forward as the Greco-Bactrian piece in the other thread. I would lean towards a cast fake personally upon only...
Sorry if you took that insultingly. I specialize in coins from this area of the world, not Greco-Bactrian per se, but more Persian, Parthian,...
Dude, that coin is so fake as to be laughable. If you cannot tell that, I seriously encourage you to ask us here where to buy coins. That "item"...
Yes, there is less. I am not sure 3.25% is terribly "significant", but it is less.
Someone brought up a good point of world gold. World coins, even though smaller than an ounce, are not really fractional. When we talk fractional,...
So did I. Its cool for a while, but after you buy a few the coolness wears off. Personally, I like the Mexican 50 pesos, the St Gauden's eagles,...
I hear you, but every other price increases had reasons "its different this time" and it hasn't been yet. Btw due to inflationary pressures, every...
Have to disagree. Was this post written in 2011? Exact same things said then, its different this time, the silver manipulators will be exposed,...
To be fair, the market the futures and options were on raised margin requirements to protect itself. The volatility had increased tremendously,...
IDK. I was here around 2010-2012 and it was high pm prices and high premiums for over a year. You can go back and review threads in that...
What many who talk about "manipulation" do not understand is that "spot" prices are real. If you can afford it, you can pay up front for a...
Supply has little to do with price. Demand still high at retail since Covid relief, some people still nervous, etc. Spot price is big money,...
Lol yeah. I just went to visit my sister where I have some shipments sent. It was kind of shocking when I tallied up what I spent on those...
Just curious how much extra people might have been spending on coins the last year due to everything else being locked down. I was wondering if...
An event like an economic shock. In the late 70s it was inflation, in 2008 it was housing shocks, and last year Covid. That is why I called it an...
Well something like a 65 has its own numismatic demand, so from a bullion price perspective it would appear that way.
Pretty good price. These aren't as common as imperial denarii. I find them very interesting.
Nice Bostra issue. Of course, wildly misattributed. Fairly common coin, its a wonder the person was not familiar with it.
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