I'm not extremely familiar with these but have seen them all so don't consider them great rarities. Circulated examples are easy enough though....
This is caused by a misaligned die. Extreme cases sometimes attract some interest but usually there isn't a lot of premium attached to these.
Oops. Didn't see DCH's post.
The last coin in the first mix is Danish West Indies. Hang onto the Central Santa Lugia thing, whatever it is. Otherwise there's not a...
You can put the cardboard in and slide it into the vinyl page but then you won't be able to see the reverse un- less you take it out. It's...
Very few Vatican items are silver. They're usually some sort of pot metal that looks a lot like silver. The few I've seen that are silver...
Congratulations and good luck.
The market for Mexican coins (especially later date silver) has been pretty weak for a long time. Unless it's pretty nice it might be diff-...
I have to believe this is an error and these are simply SF coins. The mint probably doesn't make more than a small handful of cents over MS-67...
Yes, but only 5 or 10% of the life of the die pair. The production of a given die pair tends to get separated somehow. It would partially be...
The typical roll had only seven or eight die pair represented in it. If there were four coins of a die pair then they'd probably be over only...
I used to spend a lot of time looking for gems and variaties issued for circulation. It's hard work and you often won't find much of anything at...
Perhaps the coin that would be most telling as to the overall quality of the set is the 1971-P. This coin is just tough enough in gem to be...
Tough call. If you have any reason to believe he put some effort into them they could be worth a great deal of money. The odds are against...
I'm not disagreeing but even where people bought more expensive items like a carriage or a house they were probably not going to pay in gold but...
What I mean is that if the gold coins were being worn out they would have to be recalled and recoined many times. Each time they came back there...
Relatively few gold coins have seen heavy circulation in history. There are numerous notable exceptions like the British gold from the 17th and...
The catalog does show a $10 value for XF but I doubt you'd find a buyer. They started making mint sets around '65 or so and after this there...
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