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Are there any good books, besides the Red Book, about coin collecting?
What do they use to grade their coins?
Red Book can't cover every single coin ever minted. It still might be a trustworthy guide for average coins.
Perhaps anytime you specialize in a particular coin, you discover things the Red Book doesn't cover.
What sorts of VAM premiums are you referring to?
Yes, bring back the old coins. Politicians on coins should be banned forever.
That's amazing. I rarely see a 50-cent piece here in Reno, and hate it when I do, though I'd be pleased to see a Franklin, or better yet, a...
I thought red book prices were considered low. It seems to me coins in coin shops are more often than not above red book prices.
I seem to remember reading that for some reason, they wanted to get a lot of coins into circulation back in the time around the Civil War. Nickel...
So you remember the buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, standing liberty quarters, walking liberty halves, and silver dollars.
So there's two of us.
Okay. Thanks.
I don't think it was until recently that they started putting mint marks on Philadelphia coins.
Are there any standards besides ANA?
I've bought two slabbed coins and taken both of them out of their slabs so that I could put them into their proper places in their coin albums. If...
But time is running out on me, at age 60. I'd like to get that large cent collection filled up while I'm young enough to enjoy it.
Okay, so I've spent the weekend talking about prices in the Red Book. What price list(s) do dealers use to price coins, and what set of standards...
Okay. I was just thinking it might be different deciding whether or not a coin is a G4 or G6, as compared to whether it is an MS64 of MS65.
There is a big difference between distinguishing between G4's, G6's, and VG8's, as opposed to MS64's, MS65's, and MS66's, isn't there?
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