Don't you mean "raises handS in embarrassment"? :nailbiting:
Perhaps it's mostly just crossed wires here. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to blanket statements about moderns and just about any other taxonomy...
You certainly have talked into trying it.
You're tarring all moderns with the claim that they are common. They made over 5 million 1827 half dollars. Large numbers sat in vaults for many...
Hundreds of billions of moderns survive. Yes, they are very common. But billions of classics survive too. These facts are simply irrelevant to...
Every once in a while you'll see them delaminate.
...And there it is. "All moderns are common" as explained by someone who owns no moderns and couldn't spot one without a date on it.
I should add that it's not as simple as just keeping them wet and there must be something left on the coin when this happens.
Proof sets have proven relatively stable so far. Pennies are often ruined but other coins for the main part are OK. They may or may not prove...
You can only imagine my condition. The mint set packaging is four layers with a soft PVC laden plastic touching the coin on both sides. These...
I've been seeing something similar using my mixture of acetone and alcohol or even pure alcohol. Rinsing immediately in warm water seems to...
No. It doesn't work this way with moderns. The classics that survive are primarily random so any given coin had about an equal probability of...
It's not only circulating moderns suffering high attrition but also the few coins that have been set aside for the future. Since most are worth...
'64 clad quarter '71-D DDR 25c '72-D DDR 25c '76-D DDO 25c '77 type "d" reverse 25c There are "many" others. There are lots more that might not...
Again, this goes to the heart of the word "modern". Just because a coin was made after 1965 does not mean that it is collected only in MS-70 or...
Indeed! To each his own. The reason I like moderns so much is the quality is so poor that it makes the search for nice specimens a challenge....
Mint set packaging has destroyed millions of coins of various dates. The worst affected are the '68 to '71 and the '74 to '80. Many others are...
I had a chance to buy a virtually perfect Gem 1797 penny back in '95 for next to nothing. I suppose it's a $2000 coin now days.
I'm not a big fan of little differences in grades either and I can not support the current grading system that ignores quality and focuses almost...
And I took a CC BU Morgan dollar to a furniture store and they only offered me a dollar on it. The wouldda given me more in the OGP. It looks...
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