I'm not sure I've noticed the reverses are necessarily worse than the obverses but they are certainly bad. Mint quality was getting pretty good...
Buy yourself a couple nickel folders and start a reference collection. Fill them with the best condition you can find of each date. Then...
As I see it the set is ultimately worth the combined value of all the coins in it. We may pass through a period that there is a set premium but...
I just recently checked all of my original BU rolls of the '68-'72 quarters as well as most of my singles and didn't find a single example. I...
Krause's pricing on moderns has jumped the shark. They list the mintages on the coins much lower than the number of sets made in the newest...
This thing isn't really hard to use if you remember the quick identifier is in the FRONT. If you've used other token books you'll pick it up very...
I think there's only one book. Video arcade, pinball, slot machine and other amusement tokens of north america; Alpert and Smith -1984
In case you're wondering scarce probably means around 50 known. (I don't have one) With tokens like this the number known can change suddenly as...
I hate looking these up since I forget how each time. As I suspected it is Minnesota (W St Paul) and is listed as 960 CHE and valued at 25c....
Most of these are Minnesota amusement tokens from the '20's and 30's and list for only about a quarter each. This one is a little tougher since I...
I'm not sure it's especially important but it doesn't appear in regular mint sets. These sets are the backbone of the supply of most moderns and...
It's almost certainly a mint set coin. The reverse appears PL which isn't extremely rare. I'll guess it's a MS-66 because of chicken scratching...
Most are pretty scarce and start around $5. Many are depotel tokens which were horsecars dispatched to train stations to carry tourists to the...
They're a lot of fun to collect. There are only a few thousand serious collectors and there are hundreds of issues that are more common than...
The FED did remove a lot of steel cents in the late '50's if memory serves. Compared to mintages these numbers were pretty small though. I don't...
I think all the moderns awakened this past decade but it's gone mostly unnoticed among those who dislike moderns and it was so gradual the rest of...
Let's take a really bad date like the '71-P. They made about 163,000,000 of these so it's common as dirt, right? Well 160 million were made on...
All these coins in the set are distressingly common but there are often some very good quality coins in these. I don't believe there's any...
It's really hard to get a good feel for the numbers released in circulation because so few were intercepted before they reached circulation or...
I understand the '82-D coppers are considered difficult to find in very high grade. My experience though is that the zincs are hard to find...
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