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What does gold dust or specks from the SS Central America shipwreck bring in the retail market these days? Surely well over melt. How about gold ingots from the old west? Some of them aren't eve… (View Post)

Bowers and Ruddy (at least one of them) had a pretty extensive collection of non-numismatic collectibles. I don't recall the details. Just cool stuff from early jute and musical boxes, etc. Gene… (View Post)

It would be less of an affront to our hobby if they just defaced or marked them in some manner and had them sold as chattel. Maybe a "canceled" X across the reverse....or stamped with a cir… (View Post)

I was the caretaker of my James Stack Icon coin for 18 yrs. And thankfully, this was one Stack coin that never lost the pedigree. When I sold it in 2004 I made sure the complete list of owners (to my… (View Post)

If we're talking on being able to grade to TPG grader repeatability (ie 75-85%) then it's probably under 1% for collectors. Even for the very best collectors on this forum it might at best … (View Post)