Twenty years ago there wasn't a single clad quarter on the PCGS pop reports. Ten years ago mint state clads had only just started getting...
There's always been some hype in the market and it did seem to pick up in 1986. This was probably because coin sellers now had what they...
I don't know that this is true. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if there aren't some mint state Lincolns that didn't have many graded ten or...
Most dealers don't want to have anything to do with moderns and will only make lowball offers for them. This is because this is a niche market...
It's not so much that the sets out there are bad as it is that when these sets were made most of them are quite mediocre. In this case "mediocre"...
Nice site! Some small countries with tiny mintages seem to attract much more interest than others. For instance predecimal Fijian coins tend...
I don't remember seeing any mention of massive silver melting in the mint reports of '64 and '65 but it's not impossible. There was massive...
Really!?! My luck with quality of Indian proof sets must be exceedingly good. I can't seem to find the '69 set with a superb or even choice...
If a seller will let you mix and match it can go a lot faster. Many don't care if you take a Philly packet from one set and a Denver from another...
If you want a challenge there are a couple varieties that are tough. There's an '81 set with a type "d" reverse quarter. This is most easily...
OK, let's put it this way then; Of the thirty or forty most common morgan/ Ike dollars in high grade they are all morgans. Of the fifteen...
Just because Morgans are common in high grade it has ne bearing on barber coins which can be quite scarce in nice condition. The same applies to...
This is about the same answer for GDJMSP so will kind of combine them. The mint is not cranking out 1969 quarters or 1976 Ikes any longer....
Oh no, actually the trend to bash anything modern has been reversing for the past dozen years. And why not? People will pay tens or hundreds of...
All Kennedys in unc have some premium though it's nominal for many of them. There are several though worth a few dollars including the '91-D,...
The FED calculates the face value of the coins by weight and this is what they pay. If you bend a quarter in half it'll still weight the same as...
Mint set coins have been struck with new dies at lower speeds and higher pressure since 1965. They improved handling a lot in 2005. They...
The only difference is that the dies are chromium plated. initially they also took greater pains to see to it that more gems got out of the...
Most of the best coins go into mint sets so this is a great source for nice quality coins. This is mostly true for world mint sets as well...
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