Yes, the current mint director is collector hostile. He's all in for the dealers and speculators and totally disinterested in collectors' concerns.
Buying Proof sets from the mint at the issue price of $2.10 was a profitable activity in the early to mid 1950s. People began to notice this, and...
I have heard many collectors say that a hole is the worst of all numismatic defects.
Try Google on these two sources: Tom French US Americana Anderson Auctions The founder recently passed on, but the auctions continue. The next...
That coin has been in a dealers’ inventory for a long while. It is a plate coin from one of the Overton books, but it has a scratch in the obverse.
My father’s 1957 Nash Ambassador Super made it to 120,000 miles. I don’t remember him doing all of maintenance that @Inspector43 mentioned. The...
It's been my experience that cars do last longer now with proper maintenance. In the old days a car with 100,000 miles, and it was toast. Now they...
It sounds like you are confusing dipping with cleaning, and it's not the same thing. A cleaned coin has had medal moved around and might be...
No, and that's why that type was a hole in my type set for many years. I passed on one with a hole it @ $9,000 that had more detail than that...
My 1959 set has the same insert message although the printing was a bit more formal. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Edited say: I just checked...
Here is an example of a Civil War token that just sold for over $1,500 in a Heritage auction. It is the John Mathews soda water piece. I wrote an...
Love tokens are another part of the market. You have to expect a hole or two or solder to hold the bracelet. Holes are okay for those pieces....
Most of what you had was probably the common varieties in circulated condition. Littleton Coin used to mail out buy price lists to the dealers on...
There is big difference between the beautifully repaired 1795 dollar, which has great color and nice detail and coins that started this thread....
The 1900 presidential election marked the second contest between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan. Both men had new running mates....
I dislike auctions. I almost never do well in them, and I have been a collector for 60 years. Some people think that's it's okay to bid or keep...
Don’t put blind faith in what it says on the slab. You still have to be able to grade and spot problems.
“Judd” is a reference book on United States pattern (experimental) coins that was first published in the late 1950s. Somewhat like the Red Book,...
It all depends on your budget. Assuming that this piece is genuine, which I can't speak to one way or the other, this is a very low grade for a...
I hope that you have a copy of A Guide Book for United States Coins also known as the "The Red Book." It contains a lot of information is one...
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