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I thought it was well known that you can go to Britain, buy up some common, cheap 1700s British coins, bring them to America, and double your money by selling those exact same coins as "Colonial… (View Post)

Prior to the Napoleonic Wars of the late 1790s, the Netherlands was a confederation of provinces; each province was nominally autonomous and issued its own coinage. "Holland" is historicall… (View Post)

There are issues with calling your coin a "New York penny". For starters, the VOC (or any other Dutch colonial administration) did not make coins specifically for use in New Amsterdam; coin… (View Post)

To answer the question in the OP: no, it isn't "bad form", and I would expect any dealer to be prepared to sometimes be part of a "shopping around" process, either for multip… (View Post)

If a coin has "multiple errors" on it, then it's almost entirely certain that it's not a mint error or variety, but rather just damage. Ockham's Razor says that the most like… (View Post)