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Part CMXVI: How to buy a $12,950.15 coin, write a fancy description, sell it for $225,362.88
it's not really a mystery. i stumble upon a coin in an acg holder in a dealer's case. i think the seller's priced of $12,950.15 is much too cheap (GASP! a difference of opinion in the value of the coin GASP!). i buy the coin for $12,950.15 i crack the coin out. i put in my own holder. i write a fancy description. i put a… -
Re: $250 silver by the end of 2026 ?
ACQUIRING gold is different than agreeing to tie monetary policy to a fixed price of gold...requiring a painful internal adjustment (falling prices, falling wages, falling GDP output). :) If the Treasury did issue more paper than gold reserves (not clear), that showed the difficulty even in an era pre-populism and… -
Horseshoe Falls Collection at GreatCollections - 3 Cents, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters, Halves, Dollars
Browse Coins Silver Dollars 24-Hour Deals $1,000+ Certified Coins $1-$100 Certifed Coins This Week at GreatCollections Coin & Currency Auctions This week features the Horseshoe Falls Collection of U.S. Coins * Almost 400 PCGS/NGC Certified Coins * Three-Cent Nickels, Three-Cent Silver, Shield Nickels * Liberty Nickels,… -
Re: $3 Gold
When a counterfeiter creates a false die, he uses a genuine coin as a model to create a transfer die. Any markers on the genuine model coin will automatically be transferred to the false die used to produce the counterfeit coins. -
Re: 50 basis points is a Pivot................SO HOW DO YOU VIEW A PAUSE ???
Yet most people read something and take it as gospel. Most people believe that Wall Street was "bailed out" in 2008-09....FALSE !! Conversely, union pension plans have gotten tens of billions of dollars in $$$ that didn't require any management changes nor paying back of the $$$. What a scam. There are 5,000 banks. No… -
1861/0 half dime so called overdate
There are coins from four different 1861 half dime obverse working dies that have been called 1861/0 overdates. The diagnostics from the four dies around the date are exactly the same, supporting the conclusion that this was the result of a damaged date punch. The shape, size, contour of the metal around the 1 is not in… -
Re: Six billion pennies missing
The attrition on worthless coins is staggering. The penny is worth 2c face value but anyone worrying about amounts so tiny is not going to see the more important values. In order to have real value you'd need at least 5P. Perhaps the saying needs to be updated to account for inflation. The simple fact that people are… -
Re: Favorite Sports Quotes
On Berra: "Most everybody knows me by my face." On malaprops: "I really didn't say everything I said." On baseball: "Ninety per cent of the game is half mental." On golf: "Ninety per cent of the putts that fall short don't go in." On the pennant race: "It's not over 'til it's over." On reoccurrences: "It's deja vu all over… -
Re: Big 6 Sports Games - which includes their Mantle game and Verne Gagne's Wrestling game
Met Gagne in Iowa City, hated to hear how this happened........... Hall of Fame In April 2006, Gagne was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his son, Greg Gagne. He is one of the few wrestlers to be in the WWE Hall of Fame, WCW Hall of Fame, Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame, and Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame. [edit] Later… -
Re: Why are Vermont Coppers almost always worn and flawed?
....the very features that make them so loveable . The Rupert mint, for what it was.... Produced thousands of perfectly acceptable coins in a very short period of time. There was a great need for small coin then, and all these coppers worked very hard. Taxes could be paid with them and huge quantities shifted about in…
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