As for people's comments about dealers ignoring them or being busy. If you were the one the dealer was talking to, how would you feel if he...
Usually, it's because they don't want to have to keep changing stickers on all of their coins every time the market changes. If you've got a 1000...
Yeah, the Mint Sets came in those cardboard holders and looked like these - http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/331232707278?lpid=82 The early Proof...
He qualified his statement - 5-10% on high end coins. And I assure you that is more than enough. Many will settle for down to 2% given the right...
It's an individuals choice of course, but to automatically pass by coins just because they don't have a price tag on them is kind of foolish. For...
That's because he buys the coins and not the plastic. Well, sometimes :D Sometimes he buys the plastic regardless of what the coin inside it is.
It's like ice cream, why do some like chocolate and others like vanilla ? I collected original Mint and Proof sets for over 40 years. With the...
There are several books dedicated to the answer of that single question. And it takes several to answer it. Volume I and Volume II of this one...
Pictures can be very deceiving, wear may look like toning, and toning may look like wear. Environmental damage can sometimes look like toning, and...
To me it's a question of how much the coin cost, how hard it is to find one (even a problem example), how bad the problem is, and how badly I want...
The number of individual coins, their cost and their availability, has absolutely nothing to do with what we are talking about - which is original...
First of all let's make sure what we are talking about here. I am talking about original Mint & Proof sets that are still in original mint...
You can come up with a million different ways to try and estimate how many sets still survive, but not even 1 of them will come close to working....
Nahhhhhh - they all know me too well :D
Benne they had computer grading over 20 years ago and gave up on it because it doesn't work.
I've been dreading it for years :inpain:
Would that be the same generation that thinks you can grade a coin by looking at pictures ? Let alone tell if it's a problem coin or not :rolleyes:
Before the TPGs existed identifying problem coins didn't have anything to do with grading system in use, it only had to do with an individuals...
No idea, but you can still get them today, here's a modern set - [ATTACH]
Realized auction results from major auction houses are always the best source - for any coin.
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