It's difficult to imagine that there won't be more demand for the clad dimes in the future. These are very difficult to find in rolls but nice...
I respond to about 3/4 of the threads I read. Once I start reading a thread I'll read the entire thing and this is doubly true if I've posted....
Business did not fully recover from the boomerang depression in 1920/21. Coinage production was supressed because there was no demand in...
Price changes during the 1920s are shown in Figure 2. The Consumer Price Index, CPI, is a better measure of changes in the prices of commodities...
There was a recession on in 1921. It was not a deep recession and was probably the result of WW I. There was also some concentration of...
There are lots of coins which simply don't have much demand so people don't know they're tough. I know several collectors who have been looking...
Try to stick with lower priced items until you learn the market and the basics of the hobby and collecting. It's not so much the cost that's at...
There are minor differences in many of the proofs and minor differences in more of the circulation issues. Really the basining of proof dies...
The one thing that the CDN gets right is mint set values. Actually even if they were wrong the sets would still trade at CDN. Most dealers buy...
There was also a '75 No-S coin made. There are about 15 known.
"A shrinking penny supply is a hedge against inflation ... If all the pennies disapeared in circulation, I wonder if the eonomomy would even...
Not exactly. Proof is a different method of manufacture it's not just a higher quality. Basining of dies is polishing the face flat and...
Unique coins aren't rare and unique tokens and medals are a dime a dozen. A few years ago someone found a saleman's sample catalog from the...
It was issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Roosevelt dime. Phillip Diehl wanted a way to thank the long term mint set buyers and came up...
Copper has tripled in about the last year and copper pennys are worth one and a third cents for their metal. Zinc has about doubled in this...
There are extremely PL BU's but I've seen only a couple which might be mistaken for a proof and both would be very low on the quality scale for...
Most of the states issues make a much better short term speculation or collectible than a good long term hold. There may be some exception though...
The market is telling you that the MS-68 NGC is a better coin than an MS-67 PCGS on these coins. Whether the difference is worth the extra...
On the surface this doesn't sound like much of an idea since there'd be little demand. You can't see the coins and just about anything could be...
The '82-P shouldn't be tough. There are three varieties and finding all would be tough. The other two are low mintage issues and had a couple...
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