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...
I agree that it looks like rare classic US coins have recovered almost all their losses since 2016 in a very short period of time. It might be...
I collect the '65 to date cents in Gem and concentrate on the zincolns. Some of the modern cents are getting quite scarce in pristine condition...
Probably a grinding wheel. A great number of these are misidentified as being "dryer coins". It's usually impossible to be certain unless there...
After WWII one country after another switched to base metal coinage. Some switched in 1946 and some not until 1968 but they all changed. The...
Usually those low mintages mean that they all went into the mint set so will be common. Moderns are a topsy turvy arena where high mintages are...
Most moderns from all over the world simply weren't saved and are very hard to find in pristine condition. Most were poorly made so nice coins...
I've been buying foreign mint sets for many years but the rarities were hard to find. The Indian mint sets were only a dollar or two each but I...
And herein is the real key to everything and even life itself; do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. If everyone runs to starboard you...
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