Clips are quite uncommon in mint sets as are most errors and varieties. When clips are seen they are very small like this usually.
Hi; I try to keep it as simple as possible and they probably assume I need them for commercial purposes. Just be sure to return searched coins...
Most modern world coins are original designs and not copies of anything. The US redoes older designs but this isless common elsewhere. Many of...
I'm a big fan of British moderns. Initially I only liked the late-'20's issuesafter sterling was removed but as time went by I also learned to...
Believe me, your dealer was the rare exception to the rule. To get my first bag of 1982-P quarters was an herculean task. My bank simply...
When the euros first came out I was quite surprised by the high level of interest in the US. Even people who ignored the states quarters because...
Hong Kong coinage, and especially modern Hong Kong coinage has been attracting a lot more interest and much higher prices the last several years....
A lot of coins struck after 1985 are struck on burnished planchets and it's not unusual for mint set dies to have been basined. This means the...
Nice attractive well made '82-P and '83-P quarters will be out of sight if and when people start collecting the currently circulating coinage....
Apparently. Sometime after September of 1965 a clad quarter planchet inadvertantly got mixed in with the silver planchets being coined in...
I'd guess the 1964 clad quarter could be the most valuable coin. There are a lot of unique and virtually unique coins that could come to...
There are several possible answers but I believe (I don't "know") that the last freely circulating silver coin would be the Austrian 10 Shilling...
I'm watching the quarter the best I can but the picture just isn't good enough to even venture a gues. The most unusual thing about it that I'm...
This is a really tough question but the more I think about it the more it seems to get to the very heart of why I collect world coins at all....
I'm in general agreement. I'm not so much accusing the mint of lying but the best you can say is the right hand doesn't know what the left is...
That sounds like it except there's usually a lot of brown in it. It's almost attractive at first but it soon obscures the coin and becomes quite...
Good question. I never even thought of it. I doubt PVC can become air-borne in sufficient quantity to affect other coins normally because they...
No. I've never analyzed it beyond the flame test. But this interior layer sometimes delaminates and it is extremely this and very soft. I...
The mint has been much less than forthcoming about mint sets since 1965. Indeed, one could say they have been quite secretive about their...
There's nothing you can do to a planchet of a given size to make it thinner. Two things though; The edge of a type 2 planchet is upset by...
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