Coins are struck very quickly in order to produce eight billion pennies a year for the zinc industry. Stop the penny and we could have higher...
Most of these I see are in AU-55 or AU-58 with a smattering of XF's. True Uncs are a little elusive.
I've sold '84-D rolls at $20 each. Buyers at this level don't expect Gems they just expect every coin to be pristine with no rot and no tarnish....
There are a lot of high priced rolls in this date range. Time has been brutal so between dealers dumping them in cash registers and most of the...
Thanks. Great articles. OI knew the turtle boat 5w coins were popular. I didn't realize any of the others had become popular. Few...
I've always had a hoot with the oddball stuff. I traveled all over the country looking for coins in my many specialties and always ask if they...
Most people would be amazed how many tokens and medals from the 20th century have no surviving examples. This stuff was made in huge quantities...
If you can't find it I will check it against my collection. All of them I've seen say "One thin dime".
It's "one thin dime"; play money minted from 1949 to about 1964 if memory serves. There are numerous series of these and some are actually dated....
I wouldn't be surprised if it had Full Steps before it was spent a couple years ago. This isn't too rare for the date with about 5% of mint set...
Coins that are damaged often originate in places like automobile recycler. When the car is shredded a few of the coins in it will fall out of the...
I shouldda noticed that that doesn't look right. It's a nice strike but the extra leaf looks like a line with no texture at all.
No. There were far too many made to have been stolen and no reason to believe and no evidence any were. Their manufacture appeared to require...
I changed my vote to "every three years" since this is my best guess. If prices change for moderns I'll buy another one sooner. The Redbook is...
Remarkably I just happened to be in a coin shop the other day and thumbed through a fresh shipment of Redbooks (2024). It has much improved...
The only one I ever bought was the 2005. They did so poor a job with clads that I never would buy another. Until then I had used a...
Good looking kids! I suppose that's probably going to apply to most kids interested in coins. :cool:
People still aren't "checking their change". When I started collecting in 1957 almost every coin in circulation had been screened for a rare...
Everyone is taking these coins for granted. It is widely believed that there are countless millions of coins and even if only 1% of them look...
I'm guessing very few got down to VF or lower but most of the circulated coins were melted. I'm surprised by how many AU's I see. Maybe people...
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