Supply and demand generally isn't linear. For example, a set collector tries to collect one of every year/mintmark/variety. If we pretend for a...
Clad quarters were not widely saved (except the bicentennial), and nicer examples are hard to come by, despite the high mintages. It wouldn't...
I agree. That coin looks a lot like the fake Morgans that come out of China.
The "First Strike" slabbed coin is merely a coin that was sent in to be graded in the first part of last year. It may or may not have been an...
That's a lot of Washington dollars. I can only wonder how low the mintages are going to be for some of the later presidents, especially if the...
I wonder if it was the same way a hundred years ago? "Oh boy, just picked up a bunch of the new Barbers for this year. Not very exciting, as usual."
I think the mint is too busy throwing too much stuff at us collectors, and people could start burning out trying to keep up, especially with 1 oz...
A lot of us share the philosophy that we should do our best to preserve these small pieces of history for the future. Hence, we don't want to...
Quite simple: It's a low mintage coin, with 250,000 sold in the 20th Anniversery Sets, and 200,000 singles sold. That's the lowest mintage of...
On the other hand, you can easily open sets from 1999 and on with a small knife or even your fingernail, leaving no trace if you are careful....
It used to be easier, when you could see the identities of of the bidders. Things to check included how often that bidder bid on that seller's...
I would say that Bidder 5 is suspect, with 38% of the bids with that seller (out of a fairly large number of bids), and the bid that's a few cents...
I think that the number of intact sets out there is a lot less than what people think, with perhaps over 50% of the issued sets for some dates...
Does that mean at some point, they'll have to start slabbing the slabs? :goofer:
What are the problems with this seller? I know someone who bought some original early 50's sets from him and the transaction went smoothly and...
I would try to find problem free examples of key and semi-key dates from older series, in the mid grades (VF-low MS). But that's just me.
Actually, back in the early 1800's when they put the edge lettering on some coins, usually the edge lettering was the last thing to get worn off...
Can grading companies like NTC be trusted to authenticate geniune coins? In other words, can I trust a Trade dollar in a NTC slab to be a real...
Is #1 Cate Planchet ...err... Blanchett?
I should point out that as of 2005, the mint has been applying a satin finish to the mint set coins, so really they are a different coin than what...
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