Please vote yes for this guide so we can help others! SHILL BIDDING In eBay's own words, "Shill bidding is bidding that artificially increases an item's price or apparent desirability", and it's just as common...
Australa has long been amoung the largest gold-producing nations in the world. This fact is reflected in the level of international demand for our gold coins, many numismatists regard gold sovereigns as the...
Cleaning and Treatment of Ancient Metal Artifacts and Coins Part - 3 - Three If you want to try manually cleaning coins or artifacts, and I recommend it whole heartedly, start with cheap ones. Get...
Buying or Selling Australian Magnetic Phonecards? Having problems attracting interest or are you just finding vague descriptions and poor information about the card for sale? Read on. Updated September 2009...
Boy Scout Cigarette Cards (Collectibles) I've been collecting and selling trading cards, cigarette cards and related collectibles for over twenty years. Before you read this guide please subscribe to my card...
Burnishing is a process by which the surfaces of a planchet or a coin are made to shine through rubbing or polishing. This term is used in two contexts – one positive, one negative. In a positive sense, Proof...
A few years ago we started a website called eCoinPrices.Com to enable the public to have Free Online access to learn the Value of Rare Coins. eCoinPrices.Com also gives the current market price of each issue...
Personally, I prefer the one-to-one, head-to-head transaction of collector to dealer. Not only is there a give and take but also an exchange of ideas and information and a certain camaraderie that can add to...
Those 1921 Morgan dollar Proofs supposedly struck for coin dealer Henry Chapman. These have cameo devices and deeply mirrored surfaces like most Morgan dollar Proofs. (George Morgan did bill Henry Chapman for...
I love collecting ancient coins, but some people have some strange ideas about them. Here are a few I've encountered over the years:Myth #1: Ancient coins are all extremely rare, and all the real ones are in...