If your question is the impact on spot price, my answer is zero. On the infrequent occasion when I have looked in the last several years, all I...
I have the 1965 edition and maybe the 1963. I'll have to check but the point I was trying to make is that the premiums were much lower than...
Any idea how long this lasted and whether your experience was representative? I ask because I don't recall any noticeable premium for these coins...
By your definition, any coin can be a key date. As I stated in my last post, this renders the term meaningless. In my first reply, I used the...
I haven't heard of all series having key dates. The FDR dime is one of them. For any 20th century series, to my knowledge it's a throwback to...
I wouldn't call this date or any other FDR a key date, as none of them are scarce except relatively, in the top census grade or as specialization....
Yes, most collectors probably hold the opinion you described because this is what they have been conditioned to believe or don't want to admit the...
This why I used the word "dreck" in quotes. The point I was making is regardless of anyone's definition of "rare" or how many exist, it isn't...
Makes sense.
With US coins, I don't consider the demand for any low mintage US coin "low". If this is the belief, I'd say the expectations are unrealistic.
My opinion also.
In which instances do you believe the supply estimates are reasonably accurate? I look at PCGS Coin Facts and see some that appear reasonable and...
Where you say I was trying to educate you, that was not directed to you but the OP. I was pointing out the mistake they made, that is all. And...
In many instances, the number in existence isn't meaningful because collectors don't want many or most of them. It doesn't change the definition...
From an "investment" standpoint, the biggest obstacle is the lack of supply of "high quality" specimens. Even most higher grade Spanish colonials...
Yes, but even using these different scales results in inconsistency in descriptive definition, unless the claim is now that what is rare in one...
This is the universal rarity scale. In the internet age, most of the numerical descriptors aren't representative of how difficult it is to...
This coin is probably one of the most profitable to fake. It is expensive enough but concurrently common enough where a relatively large number...
I presume the fakes you see are disproportionately or entirely for the 8R. The demand and prices for the other denominations doesn't make it...
Most collectors agree that coins with a certain number of survivors are absolutely rare. An example being the 1817/4 in your series which I...
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