Interesting. It appears from your picture that some have the finger slot and some don't. Are some turned the other way perhaps ? All I can...
There are several different discussions going on in this thread. One of them is about which likely be the best choice for an increase in value...
No, it doesn't. It sells for that because of hype & popularity. There is nothing rare about the '16-D dime at all. You can buy a dozen of them in...
Try looking at how many 68's exist sometime and paying high dollar for them may not seem so crazy.
That is extremely unlikely. People have been saying the same thing for decades, but never once has it come to pass. Billions and billions of...
The one I posted a picture of is half reale.
Yes.
Mark is 100% correct. However, I will also say that toning can and does cover up some things on a coin to the point where inexperienced eyes...
It was individual cellophane sleeves, 1 for each coin. Pliofim was not used until the '55 flat pack. I'm making this distinction because it is...
There have been many such articles in the coin mags over the years. And I have written about them on this forum more times than I can count....
Thad - did your granddad buy that at the mint ? I mean at the building in the gift shop ? I ask because I collected those sets most of my life,...
Lordy Mike. Do you really believe for even 1 second that even 1 coin left the mint looking like that ? I can understand making an allowance for...
You should pay particular attention to the last 2 sentences ;)
You are assuming because I said one thing that something else must be true. Not so. As I said - any coin where the entire issue is known to have...
Looks kind of like this one does it, just a different date ?
Sorry, but I'm never going to be able to consider anything rare, or even close to rare, when there are over a million of them.
Except I don't know of a single price guide that actually does that. Numismedia may be the exception to that rule today but they didn't use to be....
Sometimes they can't tell the difference either. But to me, a dealer is somebody who makes their living buying and selling coins. Anybody else is...
A couple of things here. First of all, all coins were shipped from the mint in bags, always were and still are. It used to be the bags held $1,000...
No disrepsect intended here but based on your comments it sounds like you do not really have the experience to judge exactly what has or has not...
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