I've seen some huge collections and have toured the Silvertowne site in Winchester, Indiana. I once saw an original hoard of nearly 1000 1970...
Yes. This has happened many times before. Not as much with US coins as with world coins. But you can see it with coins like the 1883 "no cents"...
I watched these markets for a very long time and I just don't believe there are modern collections out there other than those assembled...
Certainly. Yes. The thing that has always surprised me is that even the scarcer moderns have never had the kind of demand to drive up the...
It's been a great time has it not? We've seen the coin hobby and numismatics move into the information age and all the tremendous transitions...
I'm surprised nobody asked why I thought moderns have finally started their move! It would have already happened except the 2008 recession...
In case anyone is interested, it won't be obvious it has started for a few weeks and won't hit the numismatic press until Christmas time. When...
I believe it may be starting right now; today. I've never said this before but perhaps I'll say it many times in the future. People just...
I save these stamps when the cancel date is visible on the stamp. I call them anachronistic cancels and wonder if someday they'll have value as such.
A lot of coin dealers, especially mail order, send out a great deal of mail. There are still collectors who buy, sell, and trade by mail and...
Most of it is used by coin dealers to send letters and packages. Someday there won't be much left but you can still get it at a sharp discount...
Yes. Exactly. And about ten years after the end of coin production the hobby will change dramatically and most prices will be sharply lower....
Me either. The hobby is never going to die but old timers have done a great deal to drive off the next generation of collectors. It's not the...
I'm guessing it's just die chips but I've never seen this one before.
If the coins are circulated and common varieties then spend them. They won't be worth a pound again in the lifetime of anyone here probably....
If collectors ever decide to collect modern Japan most people are going to have to settle for mostly AU's and XF's. These aren't readily...
I used to do it all the time; coin shows, coin shops, banks, I'd hit em' all. No one will ever imagine you have rolls of the current year's...
Even heavily worn a proof will still have square rims. Believe it or not the incidence of dimes without mint marks in circulation is down to...
I can't vouch for how stable this is but I can get ~94% of the bad dates clean. Ones that are far gone and have "porous" surfaces like the '69-P...
Yes. I collect mint sets and find them fascinating. Every once in a while you'll find a set that's all Gems. This couldn't happen by chance...
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