I should add a mia culpa here. I didn't notice the article was from four years ago and wouldn't have come down on it so hard. Attitudes have...
Imagine if you could still open cans without blood loss!! How about being able to cook a ham without half of it first being sprayed all over the...
This is the shame of it; that they got a well respected numismatist to write it. I certainly understand how collectors can look at US coins...
I disagree with the second part of the article as strongly as I disagree with the first part. The big change in 1933 that made the older coins...
This is just more modern bashing. It is directed at trying to muddy the facts so people don't see the reality. Of course there is a natural...
These were made in huge numbers and typical examples have no especial value. Nice XF's and AU's will bring a premium and are worth saving but...
I think you are missing the point here. Most coins are struck in a fairly narrow range of quality and for most older coins that range is quite...
I don't think there's much doubt that Ikes are very very "undercollected". Consider that Morgans which can have thousands graded in MS-67 can...
I disagree. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and peoples' tastes change. What anyone thinks today has no bearing on what people believe in a...
Current coin collectors seem to be doing everything in their power to drive new collectors out of the hobby. No, nothing in this thread is over...
I think the white stripe is just hidden in the picture at the top. The high speed press strikes stand out like sore thumbs. They aren't pretty...
These are pretty well known but ignored because they're ugly. As the production of the 40% sets was winding down in July, '76 (IMS) the mint...
There's also the '76-S Unc run off on high speed presses. The coin is so ugly people usually don't consider it so much distinct as simply ugly.
Krause is not a very good guide to pricing moderns. It will get you to between about 20% and 300% of the price for older coins but most moderns...
That mark appears deep. It's typical that they are marked up a lot and only about 1.5% are fairly clean and gemmy. About 70% used to be nice...
These sets were never sealed. It is believed a few of the pre-'65 sets were shipped sealed but no '69 mint set was intentionally sealed by the...
I don't know why they won't fix the prices in Krause. A lot of coins are vastly overpriced and a lot are vastly underpriced. It's the...
Cool! I'll have to update my 2005 edition.
If it's a myth it might be my fault. The fact is that back in those days that no one ever looked at his coins except to pluck out silver there...
One of the reasons the '65 SMS's came out so late in the year is that they shipped the old numismatic (proof) presses to San Francisco from...
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