A hot coin is anything you collect and a rare coin is anything you still don't have after exerting a reasonable amount of effort to find it.
Current date coins are technically collectible already. Of course they are extremely widely available and the demand is usually quite small so...
All coin and collectible prices are determined strictly by supply and demand. Supply had a strong positive correlation with mintage up until 1934...
In the old days when people actually made rings and the like out of the silver coins they actually used spoons to tap the coins. With the copper...
It's called spooning. The coin is tapped repeatedly around the edge very lightly until it begins spredding. It is usually the first step to...
LOL. Fortunately I have other collections to entertain me. ;)
Knowledge is an important profit of any coin collecting. If you're not having fun you're doing it wrong, and if you're having fun you're probably...
It really depends mostly on the new collector and to a lesser extent how much he wants to spend. It makes no sense to try to invest in coins...
Sell a few coins as you go along. It is only when you sell that you find out what the coins are really worth. You don't want to waiy until...
In the early '70's there was still a lot of animosity between the mint and coin collectors. The mint still blamed collectors for the coin...
Some of these new folders are very tough. You can always just put an old worn example in the hole for a while. But this may not be as effective...
If you can tell that this "coin" was struck by the FL reverse die then it is a valuable piece probably. It sounds like a die trial strike. In...
One is always dependent on the work of others before him. Even Sir Isaac Newton said that if he has seen further than others it is only because...
Copper never actually got up high enough to make a penny worth more than one cent. The high water mark for copper was around $1.46 if memory...
GDJMSP's efforts to change designs were mentioned in the hobby press. It may not be so much apathy which prevents more success as it is defeatism....
There's no right or wrong answer to the question and I do like both, but for the recent date sets, I'd take the mint sets. I guess it's the very...
A lot of the later date coins are surprisingly tough in nice condition. Some of the date/mm combinations will prove to be a challenge, too....
Thanks GDJMSP. I had thought this site was defunct and deleted it from my favorites. Then I had trouble registering because I was still...
Most modern US and world coins are cu/ni. Nickel is highly magnetic and expensive but loses its magnetic properties with even a small amount of...
In order to maintain demand for coins it is critical that a new generation of collectors be recruited. Sure, if you want extremely low prices...
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