This is blatant modern bashing in several ways. I suppose it's true that if you want to impress older coin dealers who have something to sell...
The vast majority of mint set coins are marked. Some are severely marked and most are lightly marked but better than 98% have marks. Most marks...
These appear about in about .7% of '88 mint sets. This one is typical in its rotation but is unusually nice. Most are charitably MS-63.
Perhaps I should have said that so far as I know all mint set coins are washed and dried. The information on mint set coins and packaging is very...
"Everything" is different with mint set coins. Dies are changed frequently so they're always new and the coins are struck more slowly and under...
Of course you're right. But collectors shouldn't think that this guide is in any way reflective of scarcity. I'd wager that you wouldn't find...
Very nice. Most appear to be mint set coins and select examples at that. With Kennedys the finest examples are clean at the top of the shield...
These prices appear to be assigned almost randomly and do not reflect the relative difficulty of finding nice clad quarters. By far the toughest...
I thought they were all pewter. There are ARBA medals that are sterling but these are different designs than "America's First Medals".
I start another binder as soon as the current one reaches past the point the two ends are in parallel planes. I don't like extremely thin binders...
It's really hard for me to keep up since I rely so much on Krause and they're usually far out of date. Krause did finally raise the ruble prices...
Very impressive. I suspect as relative valuations come to more accurately reflect scarcirty that these will gain. The ruble coins seem a...
Buffalos aren't so tough. Why not do them? Just be sure to aim foir at least a nice VG.
I think it would be very easy to overestimate the demand for something like the '70 15k. There may be only a couple thousand in existence and many...
This is quite common and affects about 40% of them pretty severely. It could be the zinc in the copper nickel but all of their modern alloys are...
I've seen countless mint sets cut up and put in junk boxes. This even includes things like older Soviet mint sets and other low mintage sets of...
I'm really talking about moderns in general and should have made the point better. The Russian market has been stabilizing at these new levels...
Most collectors still don't realize what's going on. In 2007 the '70 mint set listed for $15 and you'd have been lucky to fet that much. In '07 I...
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