I've opened up many BU rolls and found the coins mostly OK except they'll have brown edges. Logically this might be caused by the paper rather...
You posted it; "Initially, the San Francisco Mint cut their own blanks from zinc coated strip. The weight of these coins was higher than...
For what it's worth to galvanize steel, sheets are heated to nearly the melting point of zinc and then they are immersed in liquid zinc. Now...
Many years ago I had an odd experience (what's new). I tried to spin around in my tracks while walking on a concrete floor and much to my...
Oh. Thanks. I didn't go back to look at the earlier page. With the declining production of most sets I always wonder if they'll follow the...
Yeah, I know I've said it a thousand times before but the fact is most of the coins made after 1964 are much scarcer than the older coins and they...
What you say is very very true but it's also very very misleading. The reason these sets drop to nothing is that they are produced in enormous...
You might get to 6,000 a whole lot faster than you got to 3000. :cigar:
Quite true. A few are avidly sought but even major varieties are usually ignored. They get my interest when they are easily spotted and...
Is the rounded 9 a little less common?
A better question might be why are the coins in the later mint sets worth far more than the mint set. when you understand the answer to this...
2,973 to go! ;)
I wager it's still possible to put together a nice VF- set of these. I guess I'll start a brand new set immediately. The set I started in 1996...
Most people aren't aware of this but in 1999 the thickness of the quarter was reduced 1%. I believe they did this because the older quarters were...
I've always found many dates of clad quarters to be fascinating and the 1973 is one of the most fascinating. These were released over a very...
I know I can't make everyone (or anyone) a lover of moderns and that's never my point. Nor is my point to chastise anyone who doesn't like them....
Don't you mean "raises handS in embarrassment"? :nailbiting:
Perhaps it's mostly just crossed wires here. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to blanket statements about moderns and just about any other taxonomy...
You certainly have talked into trying it.
You're tarring all moderns with the claim that they are common. They made over 5 million 1827 half dollars. Large numbers sat in vaults for many...
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