I'll bet it was the same quarter. It depends a lot on the type of retail but in a place like a gas station or fast food restaurant there are...
That is the bottom line. It is good for the hobby and good for collectors. Most dealers not only basd mouth moderns but make no effort to...
Ultimately everything is a fad. You really need to take a closer look at those coins you consider will always be "good coins" or "good...
I've been warning about this for decades but most people don't take this very real threat to our hobby very seriously and a few even work to...
That first Ike looks a little gemmy but the picture is too small to tell and it would need a nice reverse too. This date comes pretty nice so it...
I really hate to break this to you since they just happen to be relatively tough tokens. You can put together really huge and diverse amusement...
"HH" is the Hoffman and Hoffman Mint by the way. There are likely varieties of the one you have pictured since tokens were made in batches and...
They are stock video arcade tokens. Some arcades couldn't afford to buy their own tokens or opened their doors before their tokens were ready so...
They made two different of these. The first were struck to mint set standards and sold in plastic sleeves with a white stripe. There were a...
No, I'm with you in spirit just not in practice. I seriously considered becoming the first ASE collector in 1986 and have dabbled in these coins....
These aren't minor considerations to me. I've made no secret of the fact that I've long believed that collectors are missing the boat on moderns...
My statement; I didn't mean this to be misleading and apologize for any confusion it might have created. It's very difficult to describe in...
There's another difference between mint set coins and regular issues that I keep neglecting to mention. Dies are more carefully hubbed. This is...
This is from the initial press release. It certainly would be unusual for a mint release to be wrong or misleading would it not? :kewl:
This is no doubt in reference to cents. Quarter dies are swapped out much faster. Yes. You can find mint set dies reused to run regular...
I agree with you that in most cases it is impossible to tell if a given coin came from a mint set with 100% accuracy. There are a few coins that...
There bis a "closeness' to the grain on mint set cents (other coins a little too). These do look different than the bulk of cents made for...
One of the reasons the mint stated for chromium plating the dies which resulted in the satin finish is that the plating greatly reduces die wear...
I'm a little surprised and pleased that you say this. I really thought you hated the mint set coins for some reason. I know you like your cents...
Unfortunately I don't have this book to critique but I'd be extremely surprised if there weren't a lot more errors in it as well. The modern guys...
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