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These 1970s sets were available for $5-30 range in the early 2000s (oughts), and suddenly saw a sharp price rise around 2007 and they started selling in the $100-500 region. Since then they have flat… (View Post)

One of the very few gold coins I have - an Afghanistan Rupee off metal strike struck in gold instead of silver. (View Post)

If you search for GP Dyer on the internet, you can find references where the investigations of Platinum counterfeits started in 1848-1849 in England. (Co-incidentally the same years this dollar was m… (View Post)

I had a very similar experience! After I won this coin (a nazarana Mughal rupee, Shah Alam II, AH1218/1803AD, Shahjahanabad Mint), the world of collecting changed and within 2 years I slowly sold off… (View Post)

That is a very interesting write up @pruebas and thank you for penning it down! I do think you have covered everything - IMHO, from the collectors part points 3,6 and 7 stand out as the most importan… (View Post)