This question isn't as hard to answer as you might think. The average consumer who uses a credit card but makes cash purchases for small...
Usually mintage totals come out in the coin papers within a few months after they are complete. Indeed, there are often monthly totals as the year...
Like all collectors, I too, like old things. The modern coins get older much faster than the old coins used to. This is the same effect as a...
All collectors of artifacs have a great deal in common. One doesn't have to collect hammered gold to understand that it's a fascinating area and...
One of the most fascinating aspects of the entire process is that despite the fact that the aging collector base knows there'll need to be a new...
One of the last 1804 dollars that sold commanded a much higher price because it was the second or third highest graded specimen. If memory...
This is likely an extremely rare coin today. But even if it isn't, almost every one of the others will be worn enough to no longer be a contender...
I've been collecting moderns in pop tops since long before there were any pops or even other collectors. The satisfaction comes in finding coins...
If you ever care to divulge what these two coins are, you'll certainly have at least one eager listener. Mint sets are the number one reason...
Littleton is a good company and will provide what they say they will. Their coins are sold at very high retail though. In almost all cases...
This is truly a world wide phenomenon. People all over the world simply quit collecting new coins in the latter half of the 20th century. The...
What ever happened to the good old days when everyone had the common sense to not even look at pocket change made after 1964? Now some people look...
The Excellsior Shoe token pictured is a relatively common item but is highly prized by those who collect shoe related exonumia and collectors of...
There are several small tokens like this. There's one that's the same on both sides and another that's uniface. There are also issues with a 25...
There are some huge buyers of these sets and sometimes they'll bust up as many as three or four thousand sets at a time of each date. I've seen...
"There are a lot of proof coins in circulation and there are thousands of different ways they get there. But the odds of getting five proof...
Original bank wrapped tends to be very much a misnomer anymore. Banks rarely wrap their coin anymore and with a few recent exceptions the mint...
Many people desire to own the best quality available. For many coins they buy the proofs for just this reason. Others consider the proofs to...
The degree to which these coins have been ignored is totally unprecedented for US coins. It is incredible that the mint was able to sell such...
I make it all up as I go along and have been watching the moderns for more than a third of a century now. ;)
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