The dies often got filled with a little debris and this was especially a problem on small parts that were angular like the mint mark. It wasn't...
I've been dismantling a lot of sets recently. The first sign that a problem exists can be too late. I'll let others get a premium for intact...
I love great threads but find great posts to be even better in many cases and I don't think there has been a slow down in great posts. Great...
I suspect the primary concern was to get the coins out to real collectors as quickly and in as secure of packaging as practicable. I doubt they...
There's not a lot to say really except that the inside layer of plastic is extremely thin, extremely soft, and burns with a green flame. I assume...
US mint sets were packaged in four layers of plastic up until 1985, I believe. The outer two layers are a hard and safe plastic but the interior...
Generally speaking the SMS are normal planchets struck one time with dies that were essentially prepared as proof dies. There is a lot of...
1965 was a very very long year for coin collectors. It really started in 1961 as mintages started creeping higher and the FED was releasing...
Mine always go up fifty or a hundred fold. Of course most of them haven't yet. :whistle:
Truth to tell even some of these mottos still fail the wordiness test. Why can't we at least abbreviate to USA or US of A. Instead of "TEN...
I still have to vote no. This slogan is still opinion, complex, and wordy. It's reasonable to expect Americans to understand "LIBERTY"...
I'm very uncomfortable with this for many many reasons. The largest is that our concept of God came to us through a "pagan religion". It was...
Yes. It doesn't require that someone believe or not believe in deity or deities to believe stacking up bodies is a good idea. We need to...
Very interesting. Thanks for weighing in. Even if these prove to be fake (which seems likely) they might have some significant premium as...
Making money in coins is easy. All you need is a lot of knowledge, a lot of common sense, a lot of time, a lot of work, and most of all a whole...
At one time the '71 and '72 proof sets got down to 150% of face value. Even today there are proof set from that era that you can sell the half...
Only individuals have God given rights. Corporations, committees, alliances etc etc only gain rights through the individuals involved and have no...
Isn't anyone in the least concerned that our pennies are so worthless that millions of people just toss them in the trash? Isn't anyone concerned...
We each have a right to do absolutely anything we want until such time as that right is revoked by law. This is life, liberty, and the pursuit of...
I don't believe this country was fiounded on "religious values". Perhaps to some small degree the concepts it was foiunded upon originated in...
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