Almost all the nicest coins go into mint sets. This varies from year to year, denomination, and mint but a good rule of thumb is the finest made...
Clad, of course. I especially like the early dates in Gem but I enjoy looking at a nice heavily worn 1967 and trying to figure where it's been.
I lost over $200 in face value currency and coin the last time they devalued. They do it suddenly with little warning so you don't have time to...
I like these, too. it's true that demand is very low but the supplies of some of these coins is almost insignificant and middle classes are...
Any such set is almost certainly packaged outside the mint.
They can be a little hard to spot because strikes can be awful. The best way to see it is to get a couple different well struck coins from...
Yes. I'd wager that a large percentage of the mintage was inially saved in bags and rolls. A lot of the singled gleaned from circulation were...
I like this article as well. http://www.pcgs.com/News/A-Clad-edged-Investment
Other than the '76 quarters almost none were saved. If not for the mint sets some dates would be almost scarce above VF. It depends on the...
The mintage was 1.6 billion (25c) and these have never circulated well because people save them. Right now about 30% of mintage is in circulation...
These went into production as the roll and bag market were collapsing and were released in November 1965 when it was in shambles. Millions had...
I like a lot of the modern silver but don't ignore the old stuff either. It's getting melted just like the modern stuff and some of these aren't...
Buy silver that was worth $20 back when silver was $5 an ounce. In other words pay melt value or close to it for coins that were worth as much...
Most tokens are ordered in batches of a 1000. This one would have been ordered in much larger batches since it was used so widely. Each batch...
The Denver has a rare DDO with a pup on the "ERTY".
NGC requires a very high level of PL before they'll designate a coin as such. None of the current sets can be completed as PL by these standards....
Wow!! Those include some really great coins. The '83-D and '82-P are quite nice. The '80-D and '82-D are type "d" reverse (the '80-D is scarce...
Yes. In Britain it takes what we call chUnc to be considered unc at all and low grade Uncs and AU's are graded XF. Solid XF's are still XF but...
I like chUnc world moderns but I define this as any coin that is obviously really uncirculated, reasonably well made, and not banged up badly. I...
Very interesting. A DDR is supposed to be impossible for so late a date but that "R" in "AMERICA" doesn't seem to know that. Let's see what...
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