Toned coins vs. Rare Seashells, Fossils and Minerals...

MrEureka

If toning can turn a $100 silver dollar into a $5000 coin, nature's artwork is worth $4900. I strongly suspect $4900 goes a lot further in the fields of Rare Shells, Fossils and Minerals. I wonder, if a coin collector is so enamored of nature's artwork that he is willing to pay such huge premiums for toned coins, why doesn't he try to get more bang for his buck in other fields?

Longacre

Is it toning or tarnish?

tradedollarnut

why doesn't he try to get more bang for his buck in other fields?


Smoe of us do!

AU58WALKERS

<< <i>Is it toning or tarnish? >>



It is "TONING" when buying, "TARNISH" when selling.

TONEDDOLLARS

You trying to stir the pot, give it a break will you.

CalGold

Diamonds are carbon. DeBeers has done quite well peddling the results of nature's handiwork applied to a block of soot.


Edited to add: Diamonds with exceptional toning bring big premiums, though most buyers want blast white.

CG

GullibleNewb

<< <i>why doesn't he try to get more bang for his buck in other fields?


Smoe of us do! >>




Rookie.......






Most rare seashells and butterflies (and other critters) hit a certain ceiling because unless they are extinct, there are still more of them becoming extant. Rare subspecies or abberations of butterflies will bring multiples of "common" prices. Some butterflies like Ornithoptera goliath that brought a thousand dollars a pair twenty years ago can now be had for $75 because of breeding programs. The mightly alexandrae can still be had for $1000 a pair behind closed doors in Europe and Japan.

I collect specimen rocks and minerals also, and spectacular specimens bring larger prices certainly.

CalGold

Here's an example where someone got a lot of bang for their buck selling one of nature's beauties. They paid $425,000 for this little guy and sold him a year later for $16,000,000!



CG

solid

Not wanting to turn a relative abundance of walnut logs into firewood, I've been trying my hand at wood-doctoring.



Ken