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I’m starting to have more of a preference for larger coins. There seems to be more market demand for them, and there’s nothing like having a big hunk of metal that you can feel the heft of inside a s… (View Post)

The flooded car analogy is not accurate because a car is a mechanical device that is more likely to fail in the future due to past flooding. Neither is the comparison with major restoration work like… (View Post)

Pre-1949 Chinese coins are heavily counterfeited, especially the Fatman and Dragon dollars. I would never buy one raw, just as I would never buy their US equivalents like Trade or Seated dollars raw.… (View Post)

Yes, I’m envisioning a Russian or Chinese collector going through the same progression I did. I started with low cost, common coins from my own country (USA) and then began buying more expensive US c… (View Post)

I disagree with the assertion that increasing affluence in a given country does not affect demand for that country’s coinage. In the case of countries like Russia that already had a collector base, I… (View Post)