Strange that Mexican mint doesn't produce high relief coins with this winning design. 10 oz or a kilo will sell very well.
Your English sounds pretty good to me. As far as "coin type" medals go- as a rule of thumb they never list weight or purity. I buy silver medals when I can get them cheap. I don't mind that they don't list weight or purity if it is a well known medal, because anyone interested in buying it from me later on will be aware of its weight and purity (coin dealer, collector, etc). I have some vatican/pope medals I bought cheap (took a chance since I didn't know exactly what I was buying) and some of those are difficult to figure out with respect to silver content/purity because some of the popular designs have been copied and put out by multiple sources- with some identical looking medals being silver (usually sterling) and some being non-silver or plated only. Jim
These medal to me is second only to Chinese silver medals. Bad I don't have any of them because of my greed ;-))
Wow, we obviously have very different tastes. Chinese medals are universes better than that crap medal. I wouldn't buy that crappy looking Mexican medal even if it was offered at the current spot price of silver. I recall when they first appeared for sale.....I could have easily purchased several but I took one look at the crap design and I knew I would not want that crap tarnishing my respectable stack. If I made the bad move to buy one, my Chinese medals would be like, "Yo, mlink, why'd you turtle up the neighborhood like that ?" .
What does this "turtle up", mean? I have seen that phrase here before but never heard of it. I also learned the word "dodgy" here and like that one. Jim
Tastes differ. Like big Chinese silver medal. Believe in their future. But they are a bit pricy to me. In Russia there is simply no market to them. Of course in USA situation is different.
kutylin, I am curious, are the Russian olympic silver sets from 1980 popular back in Russia? I did a coin show last year and a dealer (from out of state) was going around trying to buy up Russian (and some asian) stuff. He didn't want to pay much for my 1980 set that is in perfect shape so I refused to sell. He made it sound like those sets aren't real popular in Russia but then why was he buying them up if they're not popular? Jim
Hello. Always glad to deliver first hand info from Russia As I know that sets were minted in large quantities in USSR and do not have high premium in Russia. There are my collectors in my country who are eager to buy silver coins from 1921-1927 years.
I'm using "turtle" to replace the "F" word. I have seen it done here before though I don't know what the origin of it is. .
That's funny. I thought it might be some Aussie slang term. I googled it first and nothing showed up. Jim
You guys seemed to be having so much fun with your Mexican silver that I decided to join the party. Below are some pictures of the coins I picked up today. If you're interested in any of them feel free to shoot me a PM. The bottom right coin is a Spanish 4 reales coin from 1794. [imgz=http://forums.silverstackers.com/uploads/16111_backs.jpg][/imgz] [imgz=http://forums.silverstackers.com/uploads/16111_fronts.jpg][/imgz]
