Nothing's ever simple. ;) There's also an obverse difference. There are slightly different shapes to some of the letters but the biggest is...
There's a great thread on the subject over at the NGC forums. The mint made souvenir sets beginning in 1971 or'72. These were sealed packages...
Great article. There are only a couple minor errors which is exceptionally good for any newspaper story. It was well researched and there were a...
Rounding to the dime is fine except we wouldn't be able to make change for a quarter. Rounding to the dime will waste the production cost of...
I think there's a huge amount of truth here but I don't think the hobby will be completely stood on its head. There will be radical changes...
Without the old crystal ball this job's much harder. ;) Most collectors will be well advised to simply ignore trying to make money and...
This will probably change as the years go by. Modern coins tend to have multiple strike deficincies and poor specimens can look simply awful.
So, couple of weeks back when I asked this dealer as how many PF70 DCAM coins they receive back. His answer was "sometime 4-5 per 100 submitted,...
The very best uncirculated mint state coins almost invariably are found in the mint sets. Average quality in the set is poor sometimes but still...
Some of these are very common in PR-69 and may not get the demand necessary to make the cost of slabbing recoverable. Others are less...
Very true. The cameo pieces can be extraordinarily Proof Like, however. They won't usually won't have the squared rims or great detail as is...
They didn't make proof or mint sets 1965-67. Instead they made the SMS's which are really neither fish nor fowl. They experimented with...
It's very probably an SMS coin!!! The minor reason to believe this is that there are very few of these left in nice shape. The simple fact...
Most of the problems with the older coins can be avoided by buying coins in slabs or collecting raw coins in lower grades. It's only natural...
I don't have this token. This doesn't mean it's necessarily rare but it's definitely not very common. There is a strong tendency for this...
Some dates of SBA's are extremely easy with FT but none are especially tough. Collectors of all moderns would be well advised to pay a lot of...
At the risk of being contentious, I'm not sure it isn't unc. It's tough to tell from the picture but it looks like a subdued luster unc to...
It might be noted that the SMS coins were struck in San Francisco which also struck cents without mint marks for circulation in 1967. They often...
I believe the FED branches still have a window for dealing with the public but I'm sure they are not accommodative about things like taking or...
I mostly just search quarters but I check everything that comes my way and do get rolls of other coins sometimes. In quarters I save all the...
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