Even though NGC does grade some coins as PL, they must be very highly PL to receive the designation. I doubt more than 25 or 30 clad Washington...
I have no doubt that it is highly PL. But the mint bought a machine to swirl blank planchets with small steel shot probably in 1985. They call...
The proof sets are cheap and some can't go down much more. These sets often contain superb examples. Great collections can be put together for...
There sure aren't many collections like this out there. On the rare occasion they'd come into a coin shop the proprietor would invariably tell...
There's just no interest in moderns and there's no interest in the fact that they are all corroding so the coin papers and magazines aren't...
The type II can be identified by the obverse as well; There is a deep crease on Ike's neck.
It looks like a beautiful coin as made. It's a fairly good strike by good dies. But the services (and most collectors) are put off by the amount...
A lot of sets have been cherry picked but, I believe, If you can find a couple hundred sets there will be enough original ones that there will be...
Experience. You can never really be 100% certain but you can separate SMS from others with an exceedingly high accuracy rate.
People don't like moderns and more people don't collect SMS than almost anything else. People would be simply amazed to see the strange and...
Mint set collectors believe they are proof sets and proof set collectors, mint sets. Nobody at all wanted them. The mint called them Special...
30% are destroyed or degraded Among the survivors; 25% are MS-64 or unattractive for other reasons 40% are MS-65 35% are MS-66 5% are MS-67 or...
I don't necessarily disagree but you obviously haven't looked at very many '67 SMS half dollars. About 96% of them aren't cameo at all and only...
Way cool! It might sound like a lot of work but I strongly suggest you remove these from the packaging and soak the coins in 91% alcohol or...
For a coin to be Gem to me it has to be fully struck by new dies and it can't have marking, chicken scratches or other distracting characteristics...
Questions like this really have no meaning so no answer is possible. They have no meaning because reality is composed of what has come before and...
1982 was a strange year since the mint had suspended mint set production and was resuming commemoratives. There was a "gold coin" program that...
It's not so much the lack of popularity that makes me doubt they were US Mint issue as the lack of distribution. In those days sets of this sort...
I've not seen it before but doubt it's a mint product. '82-P and D half dollars have a pretty good premium.
I'd plan on getting one but there isn't a rush at this time since your collection is small and the cost of SDB's is high. Unfortunately SDB's...
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