I absolutely LOVE this article. My favorite part of coin collecting is finding the various obverse and reverse die varieties, mintmark fonts,...
Maybe someone can enlighten me. Say I want to get a year set graded. Just for giggles, say a set of very nice set of 1971 proofs. These coins...
Sounds like a you have nascent collector on your hands. Quick, get her interested in boys before its too late!
I bet the person that paid a bazillion dollars for a PR66 is not thrilled right now. The available population just increased by 25-40%.
I don't think that changing the alloys will affect future collecting. I collect coins from the German Empire through the Weimar Republic to the...
There is one factor that I have never seen addressed in this type of discussion - when will you be selling your coins? My bet is that both TPGs...
Looks like the engraving says "Buffington Thanksgiving". It could be an old family heirloom. In addition to being genuine, it might have an...
OK, that makes sense. You're not kidding about ugly. The Ike in the set I bought over the weekend looks like it fell out of the ugly tree and...
I thought of that, but the earlier post from Cladking said that the high-speed runs were produced in 76 from new dies. That suggested the...
I was at my local B&M and went through a tray of uncirculated Franklin Halves. Mostly the typical 60-63's. However, it looks like someone must...
Yeah, that would be good advice for a non-Luddite. Unfortunately, I just recently got a cell phone and its one of the flip type with no internet...
I use my Krause book as my world coin checklist (I collect by date and mintmark, try remembering what you for the German Federal Republic). I...
Sorry to revive an older thread, but this high-speed issue intrigues me. Is there any correlation between the high-speed coins and the type 2 ikes?
Camaro wrote: "You can distinguish a regular set from a high speed set based on the original mint packaging of the set. The normal set has a...
Yeah, maybe I wasn't clear. I was talking about intentional obverse and reverse die varieties (ODV and RDV). There are two well-known obverse...
If want the best of both worlds, try collecting series that TOTAL just a few coins. Flying Eagle Cents - 2 coins (three with the two 1858s, four...
I have found that the most efficient way do this kind of deal is to do a swap. Go in expecting to get about half of what you want fro the coins...
Just get touch with me, and then do the opposite of whatever I do. I bought silver on the exact day that it peaked in the early 80's (even worse,...
"Hey guys, Just wanted to know why there aren't many kid collectors." I had two but managed to unload them. Nowhere near to recouping my...
Just out of curiosity, it says the pop in 70 is 29, but then is says 10 at that grade with 13 higher (Population: 29 in 70 (10/13)). Or am I...
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