There's a lot of great scarce cu/ ni moderns in these sets. Quality tends to be good to excellent (some even better) and many of these are...
Unless there's a market, I'd just keep the gemmy ones and spend the rest.
Thanks for the heads up...
Every coin made before 1932 is legal according to the government even if it was made with stolen materials and then stolen from the mint like most...
Of course you're correct that a burnished planchet won't create a PL by itself. But I contend two things; a basined die striking a burnished...
Even though NGC does grade some coins as PL, they must be very highly PL to receive the designation. I doubt more than 25 or 30 clad Washington...
I have no doubt that it is highly PL. But the mint bought a machine to swirl blank planchets with small steel shot probably in 1985. They call...
The proof sets are cheap and some can't go down much more. These sets often contain superb examples. Great collections can be put together for...
There sure aren't many collections like this out there. On the rare occasion they'd come into a coin shop the proprietor would invariably tell...
There's just no interest in moderns and there's no interest in the fact that they are all corroding so the coin papers and magazines aren't...
The type II can be identified by the obverse as well; There is a deep crease on Ike's neck.
It looks like a beautiful coin as made. It's a fairly good strike by good dies. But the services (and most collectors) are put off by the amount...
A lot of sets have been cherry picked but, I believe, If you can find a couple hundred sets there will be enough original ones that there will be...
Experience. You can never really be 100% certain but you can separate SMS from others with an exceedingly high accuracy rate.
People don't like moderns and more people don't collect SMS than almost anything else. People would be simply amazed to see the strange and...
Mint set collectors believe they are proof sets and proof set collectors, mint sets. Nobody at all wanted them. The mint called them Special...
30% are destroyed or degraded Among the survivors; 25% are MS-64 or unattractive for other reasons 40% are MS-65 35% are MS-66 5% are MS-67 or...
Separate names with a comma.
