I don't much disagree but with all the shysterism around I don't see why most goes ignored. It's not the finding, making, and selling of...
They always start making a few coins even before the old year is out. They need to test the dies and the end of the year is usually slow anyway....
Yeah, I know but people are so quick to dismiss this stuff that they often forget and use all encompassing terms. I Really don't believe...
People have been predicting the demise of moderns since they began soaring around 1984. The grading services were so sure these were sucker bets...
It has not always been a mass market though. You couldn't find folders and albums in the 1860's and there were only four or five dealers in the...
Some cases of all dates break open fairly cleanly but sonme dates tend to splinter and break up pretty bad usually. The '68 case is awful. The...
The difference is pretty extreme. The most dramatic difference to my eye especially on lightly worn specimens is the lines in the dome. There...
I'm aware of no '94-D DDO. It might be eroded die doubling. This can only appear on fairly worn dies and often the degree of doubling is quite...
Do not hammer them. You will damage some coins. There are lots of reasons to bend them over. A stack takes up less room, they won't damage...
There are also a few listed at rotated dies dot com.
Not I, but I did get to see the unique 1964 clad quarter.
SMS's are essentially mint set coins struck by proof dies. This same process was used for later mint sets except few of the dies were...
It's difficult but not impossible to silver plate the surfaces but not the edge. I don't know what it might sound like but with the right...
I prefer coins made to be used but to each his own. The 1804 dollar was an early NCLT piece yet fetches millions of dollars. Collector...
Thanks for the info. I had just assumed that they used Turkish coins since they aren't listed by Krause. In this case I agree with Krause....
Twenty years ago there wasn't a single clad quarter on the PCGS pop reports. Ten years ago mint state clads had only just started getting...
There's always been some hype in the market and it did seem to pick up in 1986. This was probably because coin sellers now had what they...
I don't know that this is true. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if there aren't some mint state Lincolns that didn't have many graded ten or...
Most dealers don't want to have anything to do with moderns and will only make lowball offers for them. This is because this is a niche market...
It's not so much that the sets out there are bad as it is that when these sets were made most of them are quite mediocre. In this case "mediocre"...
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