I shouldda noticed that that doesn't look right. It's a nice strike but the extra leaf looks like a line with no texture at all.
No. There were far too many made to have been stolen and no reason to believe and no evidence any were. Their manufacture appeared to require...
I changed my vote to "every three years" since this is my best guess. If prices change for moderns I'll buy another one sooner. The Redbook is...
Remarkably I just happened to be in a coin shop the other day and thumbed through a fresh shipment of Redbooks (2024). It has much improved...
The only one I ever bought was the 2005. They did so poor a job with clads that I never would buy another. Until then I had used a...
Good looking kids! I suppose that's probably going to apply to most kids interested in coins. :cool:
People still aren't "checking their change". When I started collecting in 1957 almost every coin in circulation had been screened for a rare...
Everyone is taking these coins for granted. It is widely believed that there are countless millions of coins and even if only 1% of them look...
I'm guessing very few got down to VF or lower but most of the circulated coins were melted. I'm surprised by how many AU's I see. Maybe people...
Production costs for coins may have surged more than almost anything else. Of course the thinking that underlies the concept of the production of...
It's interesting that production costs of nickels was only considered to be about double the production cost of cents in those days. Now days...
The dust bunnies are to be expected. I'm surprised the silverfish didn't eat the box.
The Proof set I bought instead lists for over $2000 today but experience tells me the Gem '58 Krone is 20 times scarcer.
It's surprising how elusive many of the Norwegian 1K pieces are in Unc. I made the mistake of passing up a nice unlisted official looking 1958...
I have very few sources other than deduction, inference, and mintages. A lot of it is just doing simple proportions. It all should be considered...
I would estimate that about 10% of the F and better pre-1980 quarters are mint set coins. This is based on things like the quality of the coins...
This is mostly true. A lot of the problem with mint sets is that the mint always described their manufacture in terms that made sense to the mint...
It should also be mentioned that it is NEW technology that consumes the most silver. As time goes by new methods are often found to lower costs....
Your point would certainly be valid except that all things are valued based on perception. There is no reason the perception can't be that silver...
After the FED butchered the Hunts the price of silver collapsed all through the '80's and '90's. All those art bars I wanted in the '70's became...
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