The sort of coins that used to make a Krause catalog so much fun. Not sure if it's as much fun looking them up online. Never tried.
Another just sold for $12,000 (all-in) yesterday at Heritage - described as the much scarcer Leningrad mint issue (Moscow mint being the more...
Franco/Prussian War commem? 1871 suggests maybe...
Not rare by any stretch, they are frequently offered at auction in Europe. Somewhat unusual to be original. My guess is they were sold as...
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From the Stack's Bowers NYINC sale... Slightly better date. I now have the 1927 (NGC PL66UCAM), 1928 (PCGS PL63), 1931 (NGC PL65) and 1933 (NGC...
Agree. Domestic air travel is a rip-off and the service couldn't be worse. If foreign carriers were allowed to compete, that would all change...
Costco won't buy it back under any circumstances, --which is a very telling clue about the net price of metals these days. For retail vendors...
R/T airfare between Las Vegas and Madrid, including all taxes, meals and luggage, --currently costs less than 12 grams of gold. I would submit...
What's to stop an enterprising guy from adding bagmarks prior to submission thereby scoring the coveted MS grade?
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Another Italian States issue, also from Tuscany. The better date of the 2-year only issue, they were first struck in 1827. Big gold, over an...
Agree, I too have shifted from 20th century Italian to Italian States. There is no substitute for the satisfaction received owning something...
In Chicagoland, they don't call it innuendo, they call it "Up the..." --oh, never mind. Suffice to say, it's an expression denoting quantity, as...
Beats me!! That's why I posted it. It arguably has a better design than most modern commemoratives, which isn't saying much given how nasty many...
I once handled a banknote that was a short-snorter allegedly recovered from the USS Arizona after Pear Harbor. It wasn't certified, but it sure...
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