The amount of melting modern coins have undergone is simply staggering. These coins are fiscally abused by the issuer or demonetized to the point...
Have you looked at a 1971 mint set recently? Most of the coins are tarnished in most sets. And they are getting worse fast. Allen Herbert was...
I think in twenty years collectors will be amazed that you can buy rolls of AU '50 P nickels but finding a 1971 in any grade over a nice high...
It's not as clean as it looks. The metal was sheared, stretched, and shoved in some sort of collision. There are many possibilities for the...
It's a nice example of this sort of damage since the fields are virtually free of evidence the letter was damaged. Typically there will be a...
It's so easy (or at least inexpensive) to get Gem clad now days. Finding a really nice well made specimen without a lot of chicken scratching...
It's a nice one... maybe 65 but 64 is shoe-in without the mint set haze. A little soak in acetone and 91% isopropyl will probably remove all the...
Most mint set collectors consider these proof sets and proof set collectors consider them mint sets. The only reason they have much premium is...
There might be something going on there but I can't tell from these pictures. It's unlikely to be an overstrike but hardly impossible.
If you don't buy it when it's out of favor you won't have it to sell at a profit when everyone wants it. In collecting it's the contrarian who...
Congratulations! I made a similar set back in the '50's and also had to purchase many of them. Your set is very nice and well balanced.
Very impressive. Most collectors just don't see enough of these to cherry pick such Gems. The '82-D is the only one that is typically found nice...
Wow!!! These are spectacular. The '82-D especially but the '82-P is among the finest as well. Did you buy them slabbed?
Check out eBay. The price guides are all wrong on these and AU's routinely sell for $5 to $15. The '83-P is worth $13.75 in MS-60 wholesale....
I've seen pliofilm holders for 1966 coins. They have thin cardboard discs (tokens) to identify them. I don't know who made them.
If current trends persist the old eagle reverse coins will account for only 30% of circulating quarters when the parks series is done. The...
Washington crossing the Delaware design has already been chosen for 2021 and beyond quarters. Perhaps after a couple years of the new design...
The only really easy ones I can think of is the Belgium zincs from WW II and the Peruvian zinc coinage. All the iron and steel I see are rusted.
In many ways the US is already a banana republic. Even assuming you're right about some other country or countries becoming much more important...
Just as all coins are collected today, they'll all be collected in fifty years. The only difference will be an almost entirely new collector base...
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