Tough call. If you have any reason to believe he put some effort into them they could be worth a great deal of money. The odds are against...
I'm not disagreeing but even where people bought more expensive items like a carriage or a house they were probably not going to pay in gold but...
What I mean is that if the gold coins were being worn out they would have to be recalled and recoined many times. Each time they came back there...
Relatively few gold coins have seen heavy circulation in history. There are numerous notable exceptions like the British gold from the 17th and...
The catalog does show a $10 value for XF but I doubt you'd find a buyer. They started making mint sets around '65 or so and after this there...
They're both good coins in unc. The 50L would be worth about $40 but won't command much in XF. Same with the centime; they're common with wear.
Right now? No. Eventually people will wake up and realize that the small dates are tough in nice condition because there are none of the P, D,...
Some of your premises are flawed. First of all saving coins in new condition went out of style in the mid-'60's. The reason for the low...
10,000,000,000 is certainly a big number and you're right that I do engage in hyperbole quite often but that's mostly just to shake up the status...
I found one in change in 1964 and sold it to a dealer for $23. It was a nice XF/ VF. The dealer said he didn't normally pay so much but he had...
The '84-D is one of the toughest cents to find nice. It had a multitude of problems from poor plating, to poor strikes, to marking and...
There was a day that you could go to any large coin show and five half a dozen gem '09-S VDB's but not a single gem '72-D with a nice strike. The...
It's definitely that nice. These sell for upward of $1000 in higher grade but I'm pretty confident this one won't make it that high. It is a...
The '22-"P" (die 2) was actually caused by polishing of the die. I believe this applies to all of the varieties of this coin. At least some...
Nice coin. It looks like it's in the top 3%ile or so. Hard to be sure from a picture.
Do you have many of the memorial varieties? I think there's a lot of bubble in this but it's not just going to pop. The interest will die...
Krause can be slow to reflect current market conditions and then neglect to change the mint set price when they do update the individual coins....
Congratulations. I have a pretty good idea how tough some of these coins really are. I was working on the set back in the days that there...
As a rule "unopened" sets aren't. There are lots of counterfeit envelopes and I don't think all the mint sets were even sealed when they left the...
Hi. It's a type "d' reverse which makes it a pretty unusual. They were quite common but few were saved and the mint set coins are all type...
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