You can only imagine my condition. The mint set packaging is four layers with a soft PVC laden plastic touching the coin on both sides. These...
I've been seeing something similar using my mixture of acetone and alcohol or even pure alcohol. Rinsing immediately in warm water seems to...
No. It doesn't work this way with moderns. The classics that survive are primarily random so any given coin had about an equal probability of...
It's not only circulating moderns suffering high attrition but also the few coins that have been set aside for the future. Since most are worth...
'64 clad quarter '71-D DDR 25c '72-D DDR 25c '76-D DDO 25c '77 type "d" reverse 25c There are "many" others. There are lots more that might not...
Again, this goes to the heart of the word "modern". Just because a coin was made after 1965 does not mean that it is collected only in MS-70 or...
Indeed! To each his own. The reason I like moderns so much is the quality is so poor that it makes the search for nice specimens a challenge....
Mint set packaging has destroyed millions of coins of various dates. The worst affected are the '68 to '71 and the '74 to '80. Many others are...
I had a chance to buy a virtually perfect Gem 1797 penny back in '95 for next to nothing. I suppose it's a $2000 coin now days.
I'm not a big fan of little differences in grades either and I can not support the current grading system that ignores quality and focuses almost...
And I took a CC BU Morgan dollar to a furniture store and they only offered me a dollar on it. The wouldda given me more in the OGP. It looks...
Coinweek usually does a much better job keeping this kind of garbage out of print but some sneak through because most of the hobby are still...
Everyone thinks all the "common" moderns are common in high grade and bad articles like this one just encourage this nonsense. The common wisdom...
I agree most dates are relatively common with FS but there are dates that are not. You probably hit on the reason it hasn't been implemented. A...
Spectacular coin with an incredible strike... FS on cents makes way more sense than most of these designations since there's a lot of correlation...
The whole collection sounds like something that will be hard to sell. I wouldn't offer over bid on it. The offer will sound pretty low to him so...
The stockpile was dwindling rapidly. Switching to 40% would only slow the rate of loss for a few years because mintages would have had to soar....
If you want to tread water then certainly get into areas that are underpriced today yet still popular. Things like nice attractive and well...
It depends on definitions of terms. If by "variety" you mean an unusual die variety of a given year then I'd probably have to say "no", it is...
So far as I know it was never illegal to buy, sell, or trade any Cuban coin. However during the embargo (which is still partially in effect) it...
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