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Oldgrouchyguy's Last 20 Posts
| When Will This Coin Price Inflation End?
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Oldgrouchyguy
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United States
263 Posts |
 Posted 03/19/2023 7:50 pm
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| Whenever you have more buyers for coins than there is product, expect price increases. Buy the same token (pun intended), many Connecticut colonial coppers, with rarity of 5 and higher, now often go begging on eBay in low grades. 10, 15 years ago? No problem getting a decent buck for them. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| Is This PVC Damage, Or Normal Old Silver? (Argentina 1882 50 Cents)
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Oldgrouchyguy
Valued Member
United States
263 Posts |
Posted 03/08/2023 6:16 pm
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| Westcoin: I find lighter fluid delivers much better results than Acetone, and is MUCH more color-safe. Major Stamp auction houses use lighter fluid to check for watermarks. They do NOT use Acetone for a reason, or two, or three... I used it exclusively to restore some old Baseball Aluminum-bezeled pog premiums (1909-12), and received grades in excess of 9 on just about all of them. Impossible to do with Acetone... |
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| What's The Toughest Coin You Have Had To Find? Year, Date Or Condition
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Oldgrouchyguy
Valued Member
United States
263 Posts |
Posted 03/08/2023 12:29 am
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| Toughest coin I was "commissioned" to find? A customer cherried a 1797 NC-1 Large Cent at a Gun Show(!), and sent it to me. All he wanted for it was a 1796 Half Cent, date legible. I had until the next Long Beach show to find one. Son-of-a-gun if I didn't stop by Larry Briggs' table, with my tale of woe. SOAG if he didn't have a nice 1796 with Pole Half Cent, in Good, and a cleaned XF 1811 Half Cent to go along with it in trade for the NC-1. If you read the description of the variety in the Dan Holmes' catalogue, this is the example Del Bland didn't know about |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| 1785 Connecticut Copper Question
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Oldgrouchyguy
Valued Member
United States
263 Posts |
Posted 02/23/2023 10:56 pm
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| FNDE's are cute varieties, showing the Connecticut colonial coiner's relationship with the FUGIO cents (for those who don't know, Copper stock paid for by the Federal Gov't to contractors for the making of the FUGIO cents was... diverted) |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| 1785 Connecticut Copper Question
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Oldgrouchyguy
Valued Member
United States
263 Posts |
Posted 02/22/2023 10:54 pm
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| to expand on Icutler's statement: there were several collections of Connecticut colonials sold in the past few years; there are over 300 different Miller-numbered varieties, no one will ever have them all at one time, and now low-grade 33-Z's and the like R5's and higher sometimes go for a song. We talk about it all the time... |
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| About 1 Million Liberty Head Gold Selling For St. Gaudens Gold
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Oldgrouchyguy
Valued Member
United States
263 Posts |
Posted 02/22/2023 12:29 am
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| I'll never forget... working for a Trader at the time he received a call from the widow of a Barclay Bank executive, who had a few hundred Gold Sovereigns put-away by her husband. I felt awful for the lady when we had to tell her that every one of the coins was Counterfeit. Gold, yes, but not Royal mint products. You have to examine every raw Gold coin nowadays... |
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