Wear safety glasses. These sets can be difficult to open and can throw shards of plastic at very high speed. Many of the nickels were pounded...
Probably market grading caught on largely because collectors like to have a convenient way to price their coins. If a coin is graded...
Hibler-Kappan is THE source for so-called-dollars but don't consider them the last word. There are hundreds of these which were omitted in this...
Don't even bother voting. I like them all except number five so that's certain to be the one they use. It is remarkable though since there...
I'm not a fan of the current system because it tells nothing of a coin's condition and is only useful for determining its value. I also am not a...
Oh! Now that you tell me it's obvious. This is a specialized market so you have to find a dealer who is in this market. Many of these trade...
I would never rub a coin with anything. Many say you can pat them dry but it is this sort of thing which results in the nearly invisable...
I'm not very familiar with the recent nickels and dimes. The best advice is probably to invest a few dollars in a blue folder and save the best...
No, it won't happen. The rims and top of the portrait are where the clad layer is thinnest on most worn coins and almost all of these are less...
It's an extremely complicated flow chart but most everything can be summarized fairly briefly. You need a good, bright incandescent light. 100W...
The '65 should go 66 but might get the SMS designation. The '69-D is probably MS-65 but might be 64.
It's not likely to happen anytime soon but eventually coins will be graded on absolute standards. Each parameter will be measured independently....
These sound like restaurant prices. I was just talking about the minimum amount of food required to keep an individual alive. I believe that...
A brand new 2005 cent has far less value than the half cent did. Indeed it was possible to eat for a day for about half a cent at that time....
It should be an exciting year for moderns. The California quarter alone will get a lot more people interested in collecting.
All Ikes left the mint in $1,000 bags except for the collector versions in mint sets and the like. There were no rolls issued by the mint with...
I'll occasionally pick up bars and rounds if I've never seen them before or have and interesting theme. I especially like small bars of odd weights.
NationalDealer has been a great asset to this forum and is very knowledgeable. He'll be sorely missed until his return. It is fortunate that...
I would guess that either the prices are low enough and the demand low enough that they aren't worth the trouble of selling or more likely it's...
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