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RDCanecutter

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  1. 1 hour ago, ztejas said:

    I immediately mute these and/or delete them. I don't give a fuck. If I go a day without a single unsolicited text that's a fantastic day. It's inconsiderate at best to rope people into this bullshit.

    My man.

  2. Word on the street (yo) is that they got into the coin bidness the old fashioned way-- from winning a collection in a poker game.

    No idea if true, but finding fair prices next to the River Walk was a pleasant surprise like when I found out that hotdogs cost a dollar on the New Jersey Turnpike-- a situation where they have every opportunity to gouge the public, but choose to live right.

  3. This is the kind of coin I like:

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    A couple of dings, and a big slash across her bottom foot led the guy at Royalty Coins in San Antonio to let me have her for the price of silver. I liked the coin better than a perfect one because I could pick it up and look at it.

    Royalty Coins, btw, is a great shop. I did my fly-on-the-wall act in there, pretending to look at stuff while really eavesdropping. They were offering fair prices to people who wanted to sell.

  4. 14 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    what's the difference between theĀ red book and blue book?

    I think the Red Book was meant as "retail" and the Blue Book was meant as "wholesale". But this is coming from a guy who never owned a Blue Book, so I am just speculating. I think the Red Book maybe has more info.

    I also heard of something called a "Gray Sheet" that sits mysteriously behind the counter at coin shops.

    My impression is that they are a lot like Comic Book Price Guides, ie, fantasy prices that make people think they have great treasures, which, yeah, they do, if they can find the one guy willing to pay those prices.

    They are good to see relative scarcity and which coin is supposed to be three times more valuable that something else.

    Once I had a gig doing free-lance work where a broke dude would pay me with Morgan Silver Dollars from his collection, and I eventually ebayed most of them for whatever Red Book said Very Fine + Shipping & Handling was. Probably the buyers also had Red Books and thought maybe the coins were better condition than VF. I could have made up a price out of thin air and maybe that would have worked too. People get funny about shiny objects.

  5. On 4/18/2019 at 2:18 PM, DoobieWah said:

    So here are the current ebay listings.

    Set up a corporation in New Mexico. I think I heard on the radio that it's one of the states where you don't have to reveal who owns it.

    Write a check for 5 grand to this mysterious corporation to buy a coin for you.

    Have the corporation buy a good looking fake and pay jeweler to mount it in a pendant for you.

    Figure out what you want to do with the $4,800 still in your corporation's bank account.

  6. Just now, gsoda3 said:
    15 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:
    OK, on your 1 dollar gold coin, my book says:
    Very Fine: Feather-curl tips on headrdess outlined, but details worn.
    Extremely Fine: Slight wear on feather curls of headdress.
    About Uncirculated: Trace of wear on feathers, nearly full luster.
    NB: This is all gibberish to me, the next coin I grade will be my first. But if it helps a Sulrster in any way, so much the better.

    What book is this? And would you have a rec for a book like that for English coins going back to the Georgian era?

    Official Red Book US Coins 2017 edition is what I'm using.

    Sadly, I do not know who to check for English coins, would have to google it.

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  7. This is more how I roll, yo:

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    Top row: First bullion coin that I know of in Mexico, 2nd = the coin that Humphrey Bogart was begging for in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (prolly keep you alive for a couple-three days, 3rd = about 60 bucks gold, smaller than a dime. Doesn't matter what the date says, they are probably still cranking them out.

    Bottom 4: brass and copper, would have been clutched in small hands to get something to eat. 20 centavo might have been Frida Kahlo's bus fare, if she dared set foot back on one.

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  8. OK, on your 1 dollar gold coin, my book says:

    Very Fine: Feather-curl tips on headrdess outlined, but details worn.

    Extremely Fine: Slight wear on feather curls of headdress.

    About Uncirculated: Trace of wear on feathers, nearly full luster.

    NB: This is all gibberish to me, the next coin I grade will be my first. But if it helps a Sulrster in any way, so much the better.

  9. 7 hours ago, futureman said:

    @RDCanecutter

    I can’t find a listing for the gold dollar. Ā also can’t tell if it’s 1856 or ā€˜36 but neither of those dates show up on the chart.

    I don’t know how to ā€œgradeā€ these coins. Ā based on these pics do you think they would qualify as at leastĀ ā€œvery fine (VF)ā€?

    It's an 1856, they didn't make an 1836 (I found this out by digging around in my book after you posted the photo. I ain't even any kind of expert on US gold.)

    On the chart, make sure you look under gold dollars, it's there, you might have been under silver dollars.

    Will post more deep thoughts after devouring steak.

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