I thought they were all pewter. There are ARBA medals that are sterling but these are different designs than "America's First Medals".
I start another binder as soon as the current one reaches past the point the two ends are in parallel planes. I don't like extremely thin binders...
It's really hard for me to keep up since I rely so much on Krause and they're usually far out of date. Krause did finally raise the ruble prices...
Very impressive. I suspect as relative valuations come to more accurately reflect scarcirty that these will gain. The ruble coins seem a...
Buffalos aren't so tough. Why not do them? Just be sure to aim foir at least a nice VG.
I think it would be very easy to overestimate the demand for something like the '70 15k. There may be only a couple thousand in existence and many...
This is quite common and affects about 40% of them pretty severely. It could be the zinc in the copper nickel but all of their modern alloys are...
I've seen countless mint sets cut up and put in junk boxes. This even includes things like older Soviet mint sets and other low mintage sets of...
I'm really talking about moderns in general and should have made the point better. The Russian market has been stabilizing at these new levels...
Most collectors still don't realize what's going on. In 2007 the '70 mint set listed for $15 and you'd have been lucky to fet that much. In '07 I...
Almost all the nicest coins go into mint sets. This varies from year to year, denomination, and mint but a good rule of thumb is the finest made...
Clad, of course. I especially like the early dates in Gem but I enjoy looking at a nice heavily worn 1967 and trying to figure where it's been.
I lost over $200 in face value currency and coin the last time they devalued. They do it suddenly with little warning so you don't have time to...
I like these, too. it's true that demand is very low but the supplies of some of these coins is almost insignificant and middle classes are...
Any such set is almost certainly packaged outside the mint.
They can be a little hard to spot because strikes can be awful. The best way to see it is to get a couple different well struck coins from...
Yes. I'd wager that a large percentage of the mintage was inially saved in bags and rolls. A lot of the singled gleaned from circulation were...
I like this article as well. http://www.pcgs.com/News/A-Clad-edged-Investment
Other than the '76 quarters almost none were saved. If not for the mint sets some dates would be almost scarce above VF. It depends on the...
The mintage was 1.6 billion (25c) and these have never circulated well because people save them. Right now about 30% of mintage is in circulation...
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