The real problem is we waste entire factories by setting them up to make products that are no good for anything. And then we operate them so...
I didn't even think of finding a picture of it. Here's Variety Vista; [IMG] [img] and a link;...
You sound like me; consume little produce a lot. Big businesses don't appreciate this. They promote on the basis of nepotism and education...
Sorry, still can't tell. This variety is easy enough to see from the 10 o'clock position at a shallow angle and a light opposite. Once you see...
There is a '68 DDO dime with the date as the Pick Up Point. It is most easily seen from about the 10 o'clock position in the loop of the "6"....
A lot of we older collectors learned about coins with little resources because there was no internet and even the coin papers were few and far...
People didn't save moderns because of mintages. If collectors started saving AU '68-S nickels today in 50 years there would be more AU '15-S's...
I can't tell from the picture but I'm guessing it's tarnish and why the coin was just spent. Dirt accumulations can look like this in a photo...
Now that you mention it, I'd wager even the pictured coin would bring several hundred if it is FS. Of course it isn't and the services wouldn't...
How times change. When I started collecting in 1957 all the good coins had already been removed from circulation. Every coin had been looked at...
Indeed! No coin can be graded or visualized sight unseen using the current practice of pricing coins instead of grading them. And, yes, I...
In the interests of full disclosure there is another reason I hate the way coins are "graded" today". Very few of the coins I love and consider...
I despise the new grading. It's not really "grading" at all but rather is a "pricing" scheme. The process today overemphasizes the value and...
Rather than separating the metals most coins are used as alloy or chill scrap. A lot of silver and gold get refined but base metal coins are...
I knew I preferred #2 even as #1 was still loading. The soft luster on #2 is probably caused mostly by the haze which would probably come off...
LOL. I'm still wondering who made money demoting Pluto. Astronomers always knew Pluto was a little different so why does this suddenly mean...
It might be nit picking but I would say that since the authorizing legislation preceded the adoption of the Constitution that the fugio can not be...
A lot of people have been doing this for years. Between the destruction of proof sets and them being sold in vast numbers to the general public...
" Actually $15 is optimistic. You can get $18 for nice pristine sets but very very few are untarnished now days. If you ship a bunch of...
The premiums on mint sets have been soaring in the last year. They have gone from an average of about 20C over face value on the '68 to '80 sets...
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