I refuse to be on de fence re American spelling. It is atrocious. ...But it's cheap. ;)
American, of course. I can hardly imagine talking about bonnets, lifts, spanners, and flats and never pronouncing a vowel the same way twice. ;)
I still haven't bought a camera. If it's any consolation I don't have any scarce or important ones.
John Paul Jones was a childhood hero of mine. He was remarkably competent and knew a boat like it was part of his body. I tried sailing once and...
I believe my set just slid right out of the plastic. Sometimes when I card the coins I'll save the packaging in case the next owner wants it...
If you only want one of each set then the means you use to acquire them is not very important and price should be the determining factor. I...
I've been removing most of my coins from the mint sets. This is mostly because I don't trust the packaging any longer. I've had dozens of sets...
Let me put it this way then. If they really made fewer than a couple hundred then that might not even be enough for Youngstown collectors in...
There's a good chance it will be melted too. That's one less available of a really great and really scarce collectible. Everybody is too...
Beautiful. It's a very attactive coin as well.
Thanks for the info. I just happen to have one of these. It probably has a high attrition as well. Mine is in my Coke collection which is...
This is a good site. People very rarely mean to offend. All the papers at the time ran stories on this and it was Numis News that highlighted...
I'd say there is still collector interest in the '89- 'NMM" quarter. It certainly isn't as much interest as back in '89/ '90 but there are still...
Finding gems in mint sets really is like shooting fish in a barrel. Don't get me wrong gems can be extremely challenging and even impossible...
A lot of the rolls are damaged. Every single coin in a large percentage of rolls is simply destroyed by improper storage. Most of these rolls...
Thai is good. I don't believe these coins are nearly as common as Krause suggests and they have a growing middle class.
Nepal is one of the better moderns. M int sets are hard to find and few collect them. It might be many many years before the coins are...
It took me many years of collecting moderns to warm up to the one cent coins. This is because I always had the notionthat most US modern coin...
Most world mint sets from the '50's to '90's are grossly undervalued. Indeed most world cu/ ni coins of high denomination since WW II are grossly...
I've been collecting these coins for nearly 40 years and watching the markets intently for 30 years. I've been promoting the coins for nearly a...
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