You can find a '71 nickel in change; they aren't that tough. Finding a nice attractive coin with little wear gets harder every year because...
The coins made on the high speed presses were poorly struck, often had worn dies, and had poor surfaces. They also had extensive light marking....
They had to suddenly store more than 10,000,000 40% silver quarters, halfs, and dollars. They actually used 55 gallon steel drums to store these...
There are really two distinct 1976-S 40% business strikes. Late in the striking period the mint came to believe that the authorizing...
There are some neat mint set varieties including the 1974 DDO and the 1988 rotated reverse. You could also incude the '76-S Unc made on high...
Yes. It's listed as 300E and as obsolete made between 1951 and 1954. It's white metal (often cu/ni) and 16mm. It lists for $1.50 but this only...
Cent roll availability isn't as great as most believe. It's also very spotty with millions of some coins and very few of others. It's a real...
None of the clad quarters are common. Well, lots of 1965's were set aside and quite a few '66's as well but people figured out by 1967 that there...
People saved a lot fewer rolls of cents after 1964 and even fewer nickels. But it was the clad that were saved at all and people don't realize...
I can almost imagine a wealthy person not redeeming a higher value IW and holding onto it instead.
Not I. I have only one IW and not Shell obverse.
Most people have preetty little use for them. Complete sets of the car series are pretty common. Really the bulk of all these gas tokens are...
It's worse than that. Their editorial policy until 1995 was to bash moderns. In promotional literature for children they specifically stated...
I opened so many of these back in 1968 that I don't know if I'd want to pay any premium to open one now. They were all common. It looks like...
Indeed! ANYONE wanting to collect moderns should COLLECT them and not trey to "invest". I know exactly what you'llget if you try to invest and...
Not exactly. Yes, I think the market is screwy because it doesn't value many scarce coins at much higher price. But the human species is a...
Yes!!! Exactly my point. You'll use the same argument over and over even as the coins are increasing in desirability and PRICE. Coins that...
I think that's what I said; the market is immature because people don't collect them. It's the same thing with most things made in later times....
I've gone through a lot of tokens looking for keepers and haven't even found all the minor keys yet! I didn't use Shell gas much back in the day...
This is one of the things that are so great about collecting in a field by yourself; if you want something at any price you'll almost always be...
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