thanks, I suspect I do as I've purchased some as well as mercs without the proper background. Will take a look at your book
but I've digressed from the original topic. another thread needed
hmm, looks like a 50% dropoff as a whole rather than a ~15% dropoff for rare gold similar for rare coins in general. [IMG]
yikes, sorry. I got your avatar confused with anothers
but FWIW, rare gold from your graph shows less of a dropoff...probably true for rare coins in general ? [IMG]
whooopss..found it. [IMG]
nice...do you if we see the spike jump in 2007 as in all generic coins ? of course, gold coins are partly related to gold prices as we see a...
maybe that's one reason coins at shows can ask for more...because you have coin in hand before deciding to purchase.
It would be interesting to look at by coin type (eg: gold).
wow...this is really helpful. Thanks Do you have any example of cleaned nickels (eg: buffalos) ? In any case, great writeup
however i dropped the hobby in 75 only to return to the brave new world of slabs/MS+ grades, etc last year...buying about less than 10 coins...
an 1878 cc Morgan from my grandpa in 1960's...he was a concrete guy and i guess they would use the morgans in cornerstones but save the more...
bought a role of pennies 5 IH (VG-VF, 1859,1879,,,3 1900s) 30 from the 30's (many mint marked) 10 from 20's and teens 5 from 40's and 50's yawn
any coin i'm interested in buying goes up beyond what i could pay for it
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