The best possible money would be a type of fiat money. It has to be fiat to gaurd against sudden changes in valuations. But it should be a...
Yes, exactly. Inflation is not caused by debasement, debasement is the result of inflation. Inflation is caused by the perception that the...
Moderns are shinier. You're missing the original point. Everything is worth what people believe it's worth. This applies especially to...
Duplicate.
A lot of these are rare in high grade. If you think any of these are high grade it might be worth the effort of sending in single coins. If you...
I've read this many times but I'd wager it isn't true. I would spot such sets and I have never seen an even remotely suspicious batch. Sure...
I'm mostly collecting high denomination base metal world coins in Unc made since WW II. My favorite are US clad quarters and dimes but I'm really...
Are these blue packages?
I was thinking when I saw the "vote" for 90- 100 that it really should read 90- 100+ just so everyone gets a vote. :kewl:
Generally speaking the best quality and the lowest prices are attainable by breaking up the mint sets. Ideally you'll want to find coins that are...
The '83 coins in general had a lot of trouble with scratches and the cents had a lot of trouble with plating. They made a lot of nice '83-P...
The price guides still don't have it right but it's a massive improvement on the price guides back in 1986 that just listed every coin for 50c....
You'd be much better off looking at the faces than the edges. Everyone whose looked at the coin before you will remove it if it's silver so you...
It's a bad idea to do anything that might change it like cleaning or scratching. I've seen several '65 quarters over the years that look a...
The Oakland County medal is quite common. I'd guess most were distributed locally and the mintage was in the 5,000 area. Usually during that era...
I have a little preference for the '84 cent as a long term pick for being scarce in higher grades since the rate at which these are corroding in...
There are lots of cases where even nice serviceable specimens can be elusive. I know you're well aware of the cents that are tough but most...
Cool. His name will come to me later. I always enjoyed reading his ads and following them. While AU 1986 coins will prove to be winners in...
There was a guy who used to advertise in all the papers selling xf/ AU clads. His quality was actually pretty good but I doubt he has really...
Really! Finding any of the older clad quarters even in nice XF is getting a little tough. You might find an AU in circulatrion but you can't...
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