There are going to be some big surprises in Lincolns over the next several years. One of the first will be its discontinuation except in mint and...
The chances of getting a valuable old coin in circulation were about zero in 1957 and has fallen dramatically since that time. It is fun to see a...
The 1964 clad quarter was discovered in circulation. There are numerous quarters circulating with the "wrong" reverses. These get little...
These were essentially prototype proofs struck in Philadelphia very early on in the program. They were intended for promotional purposes and to...
Back in the '80's a '76 PR $1 was pulled out of a cash register that sold for $40,000 about three years back. There's not much chance of...
Sounds like the Lucky Tilicum coin. It's a small white metal piece with FDR and 1934 on the obverse and a map of the US on the reverse with...
I started collecting from pocket change in 1957. There was nothing of any value because there had been millions of people scouring change for...
There are huge numbers of five and ten dollar bills in circulation. There pro- bably isn't enough free silver in the world to replace them all...
Pennys are filed down around the edge to use as dimes in vending machines. There's no common reason someone would grind down the edges of a...
Also if you collect any moderns you'll need a thick skin since many dealers and collectors just automatically trash these coins. Until a few...
You don't want to pay a lot for these and they are common but keep in mind that there are different meanings of the word "common" as it applies...
There have been rumors of 40% silver '71-D half dollars since about 1972. There are no confirmed specimens.
This really applies to virtuall all the clad dime rolls; they just aren't out there. The most "common" is the 1965, then some of the late '90's...
"Demand is dead. BU rolls are likely going to be losers. Look at where they are trading now. Slightly above face for the clad and not much...
It's difficult to imagine that there won't be more demand for the clad dimes in the future. These are very difficult to find in rolls but nice...
I respond to about 3/4 of the threads I read. Once I start reading a thread I'll read the entire thing and this is doubly true if I've posted....
Business did not fully recover from the boomerang depression in 1920/21. Coinage production was supressed because there was no demand in...
Price changes during the 1920s are shown in Figure 2. The Consumer Price Index, CPI, is a better measure of changes in the prices of commodities...
There was a recession on in 1921. It was not a deep recession and was probably the result of WW I. There was also some concentration of...
There are lots of coins which simply don't have much demand so people don't know they're tough. I know several collectors who have been looking...
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