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ChocNitty posted:A guy at the swap meet is selling morgans in pretty decent condition for $19 each. Should I buy them all up? Assuming most or all are last year ones. $19 is not a good or bad price right now. I've seen some Morgan's offered at 15-17 dollars lately. Precious metals aren't the best investment. Historically stocks and bonds perform better. Precious metals can be purchased as a small hedge against your equity holdings, but people rarely recommend doing that with more than 2-4% of your total investments. People usually just buy silver because the want to.
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Agreed, it's a fun thing to do just don't bet the farm expecting huge returns. More of a side hobby that is safeguarded from inflation. I didn't know this until last week but apparently old slot machines used to take and pay out in Morgans, they're easy to identify by the type of wear.
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Jul 6, 2017 03:55
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Thanks for the responses. i saw a different seller at a different swap meet selling morgans, priced at $40 and $60, and I asked him if he had any $20 ones, and he said he would pay me $23 for any I had, which made me think $19 was a steal. But I guess the guy was a fool. Sesquiculus posted:Got a few more ancients in this week: I see you got quite a few choice pieces within just a few months and havent posted in a while. Are you still actively expanding your collection? Or did you get burned out on it, or just taking a break? I got the Alexander coins, a couple beautiful greek coins, a bunch of key roman emperor coins, and my next goal coin is the athenian owl coin, and then someday a gold stater.
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Jul 7, 2017 11:22
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It's payday and silver prices are below $16, I might have to give in and buy a few ounces 
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Jul 7, 2017 11:49
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Wish I was buying when it very briefly dipped into $14 when Japan's market opened yesterday, but the window was only open for a minute or two. Think I might buy some more generic while it's 15-16.
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Jul 7, 2017 12:47
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I started out buying generic bars and rounds, since they were the cheapest, but now I wish I had just stuck to coins as they are far more interesting. Will local shops trade generic silver for equivalent value coins? Theres a couple in my town but I haven't been.
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Jul 7, 2017 13:07
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Super Waffle posted:It's payday and silver prices are below $16, I might have to give in and buy a few ounces Where do you buy your silver from?
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Jul 7, 2017 20:06
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APMEX, why do you ask?
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Jul 7, 2017 20:23
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Super Waffle posted:APMEX, why do you ask? Lookin to buy up a few ounce bars, and I trust goons opinions. Going on my own, I may have bought from a source that isn't going by true troy ounces, or some other kind of business a silver nub like myself wouldn't be aware about.
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Jul 8, 2017 07:27
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APMEX, JM Bullion and Provident Metals are the big 3 I buy from online.
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Jul 8, 2017 11:50
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Yay new coins  I found a local shop and traded in some silver bars/rounds for a few more interesting coins: A 1987 proof silver eagle, with original case and certificate (this is my birth year)   A couple cool commemorative silver dollars:   Also picked up a Franklin half and a couple Mercury dimes for my collection, they aren't anything too special. I cashed out what was leftover and I got a Kennedy half and a proof Oklahoma quarter as part of my change 
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Jul 8, 2017 19:30
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Like clockwork, every time precious metals takes a dip the metal groups get flooded with people selling like crazy. Buy high ... sell low?
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meat police posted:Like clockwork, every time precious metals takes a dip the metal groups get flooded with people selling like crazy. Buy high ... sell low? When I was in the coin shop yesterday, an apparent regular came in and unloaded three tubes of silver eagles. I was pretty confused.
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Jul 9, 2017 19:13
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Super Waffle posted:When I was in the coin shop yesterday, an apparent regular came in and unloaded three tubes of silver eagles. I was pretty confused. Depending on the person that might not be a lot of silver eagles. A guy in my coin club was buying several rolls per month for years.
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Jul 10, 2017 03:49
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I just checked all my wheat pennys.............i won't be retiring to Mexico early
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Jul 12, 2017 05:42
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Facebook sales groups are the worst. I haven't lost anything in my adventure but it's been close. lol
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Jul 19, 2017 10:11
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Did some good overtime at work and picked up a piece of gold, getting my feet back into that game a bit. I REALLY wanted a 1916 one to go with the 2017 Swiss banknote I got, but RN Jesus wasn't on my side (random APMEX pick). 1947 Swiss 20 Francs, 0.1867 troy ounce AGW Anyone have a 1916 they'd be willing to trade? Much lower mintage, so I won't hold my breath. And adding to the 2016 South Korean' Chiwoo series:  2017 Chiwoo I think I'm gonna work towards getting a new Sovereign, preferably a Queen Victoria one.
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Jul 20, 2017 13:43
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ChocNitty posted:I see you got quite a few choice pieces within just a few months and havent posted in a while. Are you still actively expanding your collection? Or did you get burned out on it, or just taking a break? Worse, I got a mortgage. I do have a few new pieces but between the move and my computer dying I haven't been able to update. I'm also getting pretty close to completing my collection - I started with a list of things I wanted and I'm only about a dozen coins short. The ones that are left are mostly big ticket items (a shekel of Tyre, a Tribute Penny, that kind of thing) so I'll have to pace myself.
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Jul 20, 2017 14:43
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In your experience, do LCSs pay under/spot/over when selling poured bars and casts? I love the way poured bars look but IDK if it is worth the premium over say generic round.
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Jul 23, 2017 20:55
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Silver Gold Bull has a cool little deal where you can buy a 10toz silver bar at spot price. Similar to JM Bullion's beginner pack but with the bar instead of 10 1toz generic rounds.Super Aggro Crag posted:In your experience, do LCSs pay under/spot/over when selling poured bars and casts? I love the way poured bars look but IDK if it is worth the premium over say generic round. If it's just generic rounds/bars I'd expect spot price at the very minimum. Libertads/ASE/etc I'd expect some over spot. It's usually easy to find private buyers online from private groups that have well-referenced buyers. meat police fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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Aug 2, 2017 07:00
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Went to both the coin shops in town today, and both had closed early  . Was hoping to pick up a few silver eagles but I guess not.
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Aug 5, 2017 20:39
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Can we ask about the values of our coins in this thread? The Ask/Tell thread mentioned in the OP appears to have died.
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meat police posted:Silver Gold Bull has a cool little deal where you can buy a 10toz silver bar at spot price. Similar to JM Bullion's beginner pack but with the bar instead of 10 1toz generic rounds. Hey, Thanks, I just picked one of these up because of you.
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Aug 13, 2017 03:23
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I found an awesome shop in Houston called the Houston Numismatic Exchange. Picked up a Barber quarter, Barber Half and a standing Liberty quarter for the collection.
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Aug 15, 2017 18:24
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Nice, Standing Libertys will always be my favorite design ever.
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Aug 15, 2017 19:11
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meat police posted:Nice, Standing Libertys will always be my favorite design ever. You can still, just barely, make out the nipple on that one
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Aug 15, 2017 19:45
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Super Waffle posted:You can still, just barely, make out the nipple on that one Had someone report a Facebook post of mine before because of the tiddies on a gold Libertad. God bless this mess.
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Aug 16, 2017 01:36
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Another 10oz Silver bar at spot deal except this time at SD Bullion with coupon code SILVER23. I wish they'd let us choose a different design but hey, can't beat spot. Only downside is I think they might charge shipping, about to find out.
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Aug 21, 2017 01:21
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meat police posted:Another 10oz Silver bar at spot deal except this time at SD Bullion with coupon code SILVER23. I wish they'd let us choose a different design but hey, can't beat spot. Only downside is I think they might charge shipping, about to find out. edit: Gross, ~$8 for shipping plus debit/card processing fees attached. I can get better deals elsewhere, nevermind.
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Aug 21, 2017 01:27
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My local coin shop actually pulled through and had some Sovereigns at melt price, I'm always on the prowl for them at a good rate. Also 2 rolls of Mercury dimes and my 10oz at spot price bar.
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Super Waffle posted:I found an awesome shop in Houston called the Houston Numismatic Exchange. Picked up a Barber quarter, Barber Half and a standing Liberty quarter for the collection. I've had good luck finding collectible coins there since they mostly deal in bullion these days. It's still the only place I've seen selling laureate Napoleon 20 francs for 5-10% over BV. But I rarely go there. Screw trying to park in Rice Village. I recommend checking out the local coin shows for collectible and bullion. I was able to get a set of the ~1960 Austrian 25 shilling & 50 shilling commemoratives for a little over spot at the Bellaire coin club show a few weeks back.
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Aug 27, 2017 03:21
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Do gold/silver prices rise after natural disasters? Im in Orlando bracing for Irma and am considering buying a few ounces in case things go super Mad Max (). I found a semi-local place that told me they're selling silver eagles at $2 above spot which seems like a deal.
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Super Waffle posted:Do gold/silver prices rise after natural disasters? Im in Orlando bracing for Irma and am considering buying a few ounces in case things go super Mad Max ( Natural disasters, also the idiocy going on over in North Korea. Any time there's some military bloviating the metal market temporarily jumps. Two over spot would put it at around $20, which isn't that bad for ASE's. Pissed I didn't buy more Sovereigns while gold was still under 1300.
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Sep 6, 2017 22:00
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Decided to check out a local CASH4GOLD type place on the off chance they had some silver coins for a decent price. The very nice woman informed me that some guy came in that morning and cleaned them out of 175+ Morgans, Peace, and Eagles
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Sep 14, 2017 20:44
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I found two silver nickels in my office coin jar today 
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Super Waffle posted:Decided to check out a local CASH4GOLD type place on the off chance they had some silver coins for a decent price. The very nice woman informed me that some guy came in that morning and cleaned them out of 175+ Morgans, Peace, and Eagles Huh, I never would have guessed CASH4GOLD joints would mess with silver. I thought most of their business model was just shipping off 18k-22k gold jewelry to be melted down. I might have to go bug a few this week.
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meat police posted:Huh, I never would have guessed CASH4GOLD joints would mess with silver. I thought most of their business model was just shipping off 18k-22k gold jewelry to be melted down. I might have to go bug a few this week. I thought so too but I called a couple up and they will sell you silver/gold coins if they have any on hand. The one I described above did do some weird pricing though. They round the spot price to the nearest dollar, then charge an over-spot price on top of that. So the $17.80 spot price for today is rounded to $18, then whatever premium they charge. They would round down at $17.49 however, so if you time it right you might save a bit. So here's a question with probably no one answer: what's the better investment, sovereign coins like Silver Eagles, or silver bars/rounds?
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I may have bought some more banknotes.... All are foreign, except these two:  Two late 1944 $25 War Savings Bonds, unclaimed  1922-23 UK 1 Pound  1954 Canadian $2 bill  1937 Canadian $1 bill  1967 Canadian Centennial $1 bill  1973 Canadian $1 bill  2017 Canadian Sesquicentennial $10 bill  2014 Japanese 5000 Yen  2017 South Sudan 10 South Sudanese Pounds (featuring Uncle Phil)  2017 Mozambique 20 Meticais (featuring Geoffrey Butler)  2013 Maldives 100 Rufiyaa  2008 Maldives 50 Rufiyaa  2006 Maldives 20 Rufiyaa  2006 Maldives 10 Rufiyaa  2011 Maldives 5 Rufiyaa  2015 Maldives 100 Rufiyaa  2015 Maldives 50 Rufiyaa  2015 Maldives 20 Rufiyaa  2015 Maldives 10 Rufiyaa  2017 Maldives 5 Rufiyaa [img]http://i.imgur.com/N645kaql.jpg][/img] 2006 North Korea 5000 Won  2006 North Korea 1000 Won  2007 North Korea 500 Won  1992 North Korea 100 Won  1992-2002 North Korea 200 Won - 1 Won The 5000 through 100 Won are the same size. The full width of the image with the other five notes is the same width as the first four notes, showing the change in size. Imgur shrunk that one a bit, given that image was massive. "Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's 100th Birthday" set:  2013 North Korea 5000 Won  2008 North Korea 5000 Won  2008 North Korea 2000 Won  2008 North Korea 1000 Won  2008 North Korea 500 Won  2008 North Korea 200 Won  2008 North Korea 100 Won  2002 North Korea 50 Won  2002 North Korea 10 Won  2002 North Korea 5 Won All those notes are the same size.
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I bought my first full tube of Silver Eagles today!  All 2005's as they were slightly cheaper for some reason. The local CASH4GOLD places turned out to be bait and switch so I went back to my local shop and picked up a tube for $388 (about $2.25 over spot). Also picked up a 1986 Eagle, a Walking Liberty, and a V nickel for my collection. I'll edit in pics once I get back from work.EDIT - Took me 23 years, but I've finally finished the coin collection I started as a child  DominusDeus posted:*awesome stuff* That is so cool, I've never seen NK money. How does anyone get NK notes out of the country? Super Waffle fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Sep 19, 2017 |
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I love Silver Eagles, but I'd really like to grab some silver Hungary Koronas while silver is at 17. Anyone have an idea of what the avg prices would normally be for them?
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