Just how much of a premium is added by the cameo or deep cameo designation varies according to the coin grade. Unusually, at PR68 the PCGS values both undesignated and cameo coins at $20 apiece. And at PR66, the difference in value between a cameo and deep cameo is just $1. But at...
There is a case to be made that the 1905 and 1906 examples were genuine errors, but the others almost certainly were not. What are the odds that a mint employee accidentally fed a gold coin planchet into the penny press without noticing? Moreover, these coins made it out of the mint a...
How much does it cost to produce a barrel of oil from Oil Shale in today's conditions? The price of a gallon of gas in Bloomington is uniformly distributed between $2.28 and $2.62 (i.e., for X price of a gallon of ga...
It took a special pass to get into the "back office" on 17, where Madoff was conducting his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. And even if a person could get in, there wasn't much to see: an antiquated IBM computer server kept in a locked room, piles of trading statements, and a staff of...
So no, music isn't rare, even if it is important. So is it valuable? Well. That's not really a word that means very much unless you narrow it down a bit. My baby's smiles are valuable, but you can't get a penny for them in the street if you ask people (apparently). The ...
How Much Is He Offering Me? At the same flea market, a trader is offering to buy your silver money. He’s paying $100 in paper for a face-value dollar in silver (this is two halves, four quarters, or ten dimes). Should you take the offer? Is it a good price?
Customisation and aestheticisation also helped the article gain widespread acceptance. Indeed, market and religious logic have spurred much writing on the issue of Islamic sartorial choice. Researchers have explored the paradox of women trying to practice modesty on the one hand and express overt ...