Great post. I suspect that some dies missed the sandblasting back in the old days of proof set making and "know" that not all SMS dies recieved...
I'm in complete agreement generally but no agreement specifically. Don't buy any coins for investment but people have been telling me for 40...
Krause is behind the times on most modern material even with the new editions. Prices haven't changed a lot on NZ in ten years except for high...
I like NZ and believe it has a lot of long term potential. One of the ways you can tell is that very low mintages sell for no more than very high...
I don't want to discourage you in any way. However it should be considered that two mint sets out of three are very mediocre. For some dates it's...
I actually collect mint and proof set tokens. edited I've got multiples of many of them. Most of them are foreign, of course.
No. There are numerous reasons they hold up so well but in recent years it's primarily the fact that their velocity has slowed remarkably....
These sets usually have pretty dark coins. Soaking them in acetone won't lighten them up very much but does seem to stop them from getting worse....
It's just as well since in 25 years this thing will still be junky and it will take about twenty five of them to buy a candy bar. I'd save...
It's really not all that bad. They made 821 million 1966 quarters and this one is in the top 275 million or so. More than half are already...
It appears to clearly be a 1952. I could have a different opinion in hand but the date looks fine in the new pictures. Even when these are...
It's common that the date star is poorly struck. I might be able to make it out since my eye needs less information to read it but odds are it's...
Coins have been made debased and underweight for millinea. This is hardly a problem with US coins but there are many heavily worn US coins and...
It's not that improbable that it's a premium coin. These coins circulated very heavily and very few survive in the higher grades. This applies...
It's way too big of a topic. There are many tens of thousands of different tokens and token like items that have been made in the US of hundreds...
That sounds way too low to me. More than half of the pre-'21 morgans were destroyed by the Pittman act in 1918 but almost none would have been...
This one probably wasn't too far off but often things like this are calculated and the pencil doesn't know that there is an attrition rate on...
The SBA set is almost the quintessential modern set. It is short and most of the coins in it are pretty common in unc. It has relatively few...
My definitioon of a "serious collector" is anyone who systematically acquires coins for a collection and knowledge about coins. Acquiring...
5,755 total pices isn't extremely low for that era. I do agree it's tiny compared to the potential demand and so is the total 8,801 mintage...
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