A lot of moderns are irresistable to sell. When profits average a few thousand percent the natural impulse is to sell. Indeed, I'd even...
Some of Denver's circulation strikes are so perfect that they already look like branch mint proofs. I do agree that they will probably have a...
You may well be right but enough were made that everybody could have eight of them and relatively few people I know have any at all. A lot will...
It was inflation that was the primary killer of the half dollar. In the early '60's and right up till around 1968 you needed nickels and dimes...
I'm glad to see them going after the counterfeiters.
All else is never really equal. But just to play along in the example you gave the unc will "always" win out over a circ. People simply want...
To each his own. Quality os great and quantity is great as well. For me personally it's more and more about rarity and completeness than it is...
It's been repaired though. ;)
With a little searching you can find nice attractive mint set coins for next to nothing (a couple bucks). Many of these will grade MS-64 and with...
I would suggest nice attractive examples of all the BU Ikes. If you look at a few of each date you'll see all Ikes are not created equal and all...
I don't believe they really do anything shady. I wouldn't advise anyone except beginning collectors to buy from them because their prices aren't...
The best bet for cheap with Jeffersons is to look for nice gemmy coins from new dies but have a little reverse marking. Of course what's cheap...
It wasn't what the Hunt brothers were doing that was a "scam". The scam was perpetrated by the COMEX which changed the rules in the middle of the...
There were two major blowoffs with the first being in '80 and the second in '89/ '90. Prices were very strong in '86 but retreated slightly before...
I believe there's one in the whole country but it's open only a few hours per day. Paul Green used to write about getting coins here. I...
My personal opinion is the BU coins are almost sure winners if you get truly high grade coins. Of course this presupposes you don't just get the...
Interesting coins. We see the older issues here but they are almost invariably heavily worn. How's the market for Iceland now? I'd guess...
I believe they're all marked in a sort of code on the outside.
There are no laws currently being enforced regarding melting any US gold or silver coins. It is illegal to melt pennies and nickels. There's a...
Some sets are best left in the original mailing boxes since many people check through individual sets looking for the finest specimens and...
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