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The Sad Story of My Numismatic Friend
The Sad Story of My Numismatic Friend (and my first significant coin). My friend “Jim” was my best coin collecting friend from long ago, back to Middle School in the early 1970s. The earliest memories are of the two of us looking at coins in the back of the classroom during Social Studies and the teacher telling us “boys,… -
Re: The Hockey Card Thread...show your recent pick-ups.
Thanks. Actually, as it turns out Rob Ray's first card is the 1988-89 Procards Rochester Americans Junior League card. And keeping on Sabres' favorites from that era, Brad May's first card is in the tougher to find 1988-89 Niagara Falls Thunder set which also has the first card of Keith Primeau. HOF'er Pierre Turgeon has… -
The truth about the toned coin market
(I was going to write this in response to Wondercoin's post about 1970-1990 Morgans, but it expanded enough to deserve its own thread. The question is: Why was it that toned Morgans regardless of how pretty, were worth virtually -0- premium whatsoever?) You want the truth? You want the truth???? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE… -
Re: September 11 coins a "fraud," Spitzer Seeks Injunction
<< <i>Sure the ads are misleading, but I bet they aren't false. I believe the ad says "created using silver recovered from Ground Zero." I would think the thin layer of silver plating would qualify. The coins are legal tender - in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas. Don't misunderstand, I'm not in favor of profiting… -
Re: Recent advice from an advanced collector: “Don’t ever be an underbidder.” Ouch!
I've got a good number of coins in my primary non-US collecting interesting that presumably fall into the category covered by the theme of this thread. I've bought a disproportionate percentage of the better coins I'm aware of for 15 years. Yes, there is less competition, but only a tiny fraction of US coinage is harder to… -
Re: Silver Triple Top coming soon???
No one is preventing anyone from buying the physical metal. In all other instances where the price is fixed (that's what price suppression means) which has never happened for 5+ decades (I've heard this claim since the 80's), supply disappears. That hasn't happened because this claim isn't true. Gold has also supposedly… -
Re: Gold to do what ???? on Monday AM
another leak of info to tame the markets........imo, gold to go higher +++++++++++++ Race to prop up US mortgage giants By Francesco Guerrera in New York and James Politi and Krishna Guha in Washington Published: July 13 2008 19:14 | Last updated: July 13 2008 20:48 US policymakers held crisis talks on Sunday over possible… -
Re: get a piece of Canseco
There are a LOT of atheletes that sell their rings and other awards. It seems crazy to us, but everyone here has sold some cards they really didn't want to when life got in the way. Right? Jose has made some decisions so he's selling a ring that he didn't really earn and he'll make a ton of money for it. Seems reasonable… -
The Weimar Republic Thread
Got any interesting stuff on Weimar? Anyone who digs up some interesting data on Weimar debt, or Weimar money creation, or Weimar economic policies - post it here. After reading some of this, I get the distinct impression that the authors of the 2nd exerpt (below) have an elitist academic orientation and believe in nothing… -
Re: The fallacy of fielding measurements. The 'common man' is correct, Jeter is better than the stats!
The whole you have to touch it thing has always been dumb. If an outfielder falls down or turns the wrong way and misses it that should be an error. Just like if 2 or 3 guys are just staring at each other and the ball falls at their feet at the very least that should be a team error. Some former scorers and insiders have…
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