Look for any of the early clads in high grades and with a nice strong strike. Many of these are getting about impossible over Fine condition...
Without the other coins these must be the souvenir minrt sets. These do sometimes include the near date coin. There have also reportedly been...
I'm afraid of the silica gel. I saw a bottle full of gem Ikes in the mint set wrappers sealed with one of these packets go horribly bad....
OK, here's something that might be new to you and everyone seems to have forgotten. There was an open competition for designs. The first...
There are a lot of questions here and the answers can be complicated and interwoven. I'll try to provide a general overview of the mint state...
Most of these later date coins have to be unc to have much value. A few of those could have significant value though.
It's low on the neck and points at the 6 in 1776.
Now what we need to do is find a mule with a type I obverse and type II reverse. This is a very common occurance on the other circulating coins...
Nothing's ever simple. ;) There's also an obverse difference. There are slightly different shapes to some of the letters but the biggest is...
There's a great thread on the subject over at the NGC forums. The mint made souvenir sets beginning in 1971 or'72. These were sealed packages...
Great article. There are only a couple minor errors which is exceptionally good for any newspaper story. It was well researched and there were a...
Rounding to the dime is fine except we wouldn't be able to make change for a quarter. Rounding to the dime will waste the production cost of...
I think there's a huge amount of truth here but I don't think the hobby will be completely stood on its head. There will be radical changes...
Without the old crystal ball this job's much harder. ;) Most collectors will be well advised to simply ignore trying to make money and...
This will probably change as the years go by. Modern coins tend to have multiple strike deficincies and poor specimens can look simply awful.
So, couple of weeks back when I asked this dealer as how many PF70 DCAM coins they receive back. His answer was "sometime 4-5 per 100 submitted,...
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