I very much look forward to your post. I think the mint might be closer than you think. Right now I'd estimate the half life of quarters minted...
If you can find any of the cu/ ni in Unc it would be wise to save them. They are much more elusive in my experience than the silver issues.
Great article. I really appreciate allthe stuff you've pictured and written about Korean coinage. Getting a good perspective on many foreign...
Beware that there are lots of AU and slider examples of this coin so the XF price might be overstated. No question Unc specimens are quite scarce.
I personally don't consider seeking an uncirculated example to be "conditional rarity". If we were talking about seeking Gems or superb Gems of...
I have to disagree. ;) I would define modern WORLD coins as any coins struck after the coiuntry switched principally to base metal coins. For...
Thanks for the opinion. I'm not extremely familiar with the services. I might undercount a little because I don't like ugly coins even if they...
It's the commonest cause of a coin being "PL". Basining is flattening the surface of the reverse image die so that the fields of the coin lie in...
About 1.5% of these are PL. Almost all the Kennedys can be found PL though some are quite elusive. The '70 PL's are a little more dramatic...
What state. I can give you an opinion probably and it's possible I can be confident. Most people would be amazed to know how extremely little...
Are the '82 and '83 issues really Unc? Most times these dates are sliders. They aren't worth all that much but you just can't find Uncs and...
I'd hang onto Indian coinage since there seems to be increasing interest in India.
I believe you're mistaken. I have the mint reports but haven't read them in years. As I remember San Francisco struck all denominations from...
I think there are still plenty of modern world coins that are grossly undervalued. Most of these have very high mintages and very low survival...
We waste countless billions in waste and inefficiency to keep a few people working in Massachusettes. This waste destroys tens of thousands of...
'65 halfs are kindda complicated. I'll talk only about the SMS. These were made by several different processes as the mint sought a replacement...
The rims have been filed or ground off. Sometimes people do this to hasten wear for pocket pieces.
When I started collecting coins with fewer than ten million examples were considered rare. Everyone wanted one or a few rolls of them. Everything...
Nice attractive VF and better early issues are quite likely to develop a premium if a market ever emerges for clads. Nice VF '69, '71. and '73-D...
I think a lot of collectors will be surprised how few of some of the later coins were saved as the interest in the states coins decreased. There...
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