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Re: Recent advice from an advanced collector: “Don’t ever be an underbidder.” Ouch!
A mentor of mine (an all time B&M guy) always said he could never collect because at best he would lose his best material out of retail and at worst he would unfairly compete with his customers. … (View Post)1 -
Re: New Purchase: 1897-S $20 Gold Liberty (Semi-Prooflike)
It appear to line up with the one on the neck, another 20$ looks like it came down in the bag flush on its rim. That’s DEs for you. There is no sexier coin than a flashy 20$ (View Post)2 -
Re: Fairmont Collection of Liberty Double Eagles
Fair point considering the compression of value now with gold 3k+. That said I am sure there is bulk rates going on here (View Post)2 -
Re: Ethics in a Hypothetical Disposition of a Coin Hoard
My first gold coin was an 1881/0 5$ liberty in EF that the Coin world add proclaimed 2 Known for 550$ about 4-5X the non-varitey in the early 90s. I opened up the most current Redbook and it had the … (View Post)1 -
Re: With Gold now at an Ask of 331.60 Do you have all your Gold Coins?
Silver is basically worthless too, its just older than paper and more tangible. They are all mediums used to represent labor and food, maybe bullets . The ratios and who controls them are different b… (View Post)2