In all honesty, weigh the silly thing. It should be within a few tenths or hundredths of the correct weight and the size should be correct also....
It is a part of the total picture. The purchase price is very much arguable circumstantial evidence. As the judge said if the price sounded too...
On a triple digit electric and calibrated gram scale, what is the weight? Hey, if they made it of a 90% silver planchet and it is the right size...
bars and rounds from who? It better say credit suisse and have the correct stamp and still be in the correct holographed case.
Now you get it. Secret Service would be the ones with clear jurisdiction and the decision making capability. Consider the Secret Service Agent's...
I wasn't speaking slabbed, but of Raw coins which bought sight unseen I can usually get for less than $40, if I wanted them. Again, Apmex comes...
I like the new healthcare 50 year commemorative coin. Kind of weirdly archaic that they made it out of metal however. I think the plastic...
And let us not forget the many varieties of gold coins. :)
I would move into the classics. Seated Liberty coins, several types exist. Capped Bust coins, again several denominations exist. I think you...
First would be the Morgan dollars are older. I like old things in new shape. Then, the design on them is to me a better, classier, design than...
When I was a kid, we tipped the mailman. Then they did that strike thing and came out of it with a much better salary than both my parents...
I got a few emails like that around T day too. I didn't get refunds, but the stuff showed up and I have nothing negative to say about someone...
Correction Apmex. Don't know why I keep messing that up.
True dat. Where I find magnification to be great is on those little parallel fine scratches the seller forgets to mention. :)
Her mom must have been too, because that is who taught her and her siblings to save their change, so every day, for two generations, every day,...
LoL. Very few sellers take action inside a 24 hour cycle. I have bought some stuff from name brand sellers and 3 or 4 days go by before I get a...
LoL. I wish. I spent over a year (at 3 hours a night, 2 or 3 times a week) sorting through the tin cans of coins of one inheritance from a...
If you are doing this for investment or hopes of earning a living by someday opening your own shop, I would really avoid anything not slabbed, and...
Since grading is subjective, I am not even sure it is possible to tell a 1 or 2 point grade difference from just one or two photos. The person...
I usually start with this page. http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtml
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