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Re: Closing up my hunt for the Deseret Lion - The final Mormon design
Congratulations, Dan.
The coin and your writeup are equally fantastic.
MFeld
Re: Mint to rise clad prices
The price for the clad commemorative half dollars was already too high. Years ago these coins were priced at under $10, including the fund raising surcharge, so that young collectors could afford them. The mint mounted some of these coins in colorful YN oriented information folders.
Now, if memory serves, they are priced at over $70. That is ridiculous. Does really cost the mint that much to make a base metal coin that is struck on blanks that are used for (almost) made for circulation coins like the Kennedy Half Dollar?
The mint prices are too high, and from what I have seen, more than a few collectors are opting out. I know I am. I buy one, over priced silver Proof set per year. That’s way down from where I was when I kept up with all of the new commemorative coins.
Re: 2024 Year in Review: Post your favorite acquisitions
Amazing coin from Nurnberg. It is almost impossible to believe that a coin more than 340 years old could have survived in this condition. Congratulations! It is beautiful.
RSP
Re: Bitcoin Target Price
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@GoldFinger1969 said:
I agree that the IMF has screwed up some troubled countries. Their repeated bankruptcies or going hand-in-hand back to the IMF or World Bank is proof of that.However...this is a result of the AUSTERITY policies favored by the globalists like the IMF. A proper focus on "The Denominator Effect" would focus on growing NOMINAL GDP and achieving escape velocity for debt payments. You MUST grow nominal GDP.
That's where some of you get it wrong. The U.S. -- for all it's problems -- is able to grow GDP over the long-term. Check out our GDP compared to the BRICs or EU or other countries.
Key to this is a functioning govt with checks and balances and not run by despots, dictators or wannabe kings.
The poor folk of these countries never have a chance when aid is funneled to said depots, dictatorship and wannabe kings. The cycle will continue until the weak are strong.
cohodk
Re: 230th Anniversary Flowing Hair High Relief Gold Coin (24YG)
You can make the coin look both black and gold in hand, depending on how you hold it and how the light is reflecting. It’s really stunning. The listing you posted are not actual pictures of the coin, they are computer generated images.
@GoldFinger1969 said:
@MsMorrisine said:
photographic techniques are used to make the fields blackAre you saying they don't look that way in-hand ?
Here's why I asked.....these show NO relectivity/blackness at all. But the labels clearly said DCAM/UCAM so I guess whoever took the pics didn't care about showing the ink-jet black fields.
Anyway, thanks for clearing it up guys !
jwitten
Re: eBay's "Report an Item" soon to be Deprecated
You can still report using the new procedure.
cheezhed