Nice coin. Singapore copper nickel coins often tone this color. The Uncs are underappreciated because they appear in mint sets but the mint...
Yes. The other articles are primarily in reference to bullion coins and low mintage modern coins of the US and world. But this article is...
Yes. But the zinc production makes the estimate of attrition of the coppers nearly meaningless without a lot more data. You found 48% of 1961...
Thanks. Very interesting. The numbers are important and tell a story but I'm not certain just what story they are telling. There are a few...
...con't I'd guess 1 1/2 million survived in 1999 when they were recalled and about 85% of these were melted. This leaves a substantial...
Modern attrition rates are far higher than older ones because coins used to be real money. You could buy a sandwich, coffee and piece of pie for...
You probably know more about most of this stuff than I do. I had a friend try to spend DM coins a couple years back and wasn't able to get rid of...
I really consider all currency systems used to date to be "fiat" because nothing has inherent or intrinsic value. When it was issued a 1935...
Moderns have never been collected and very few are collecting now. Many of these coins can NEVER be a mass collectors market like Mercury dimes...
Do you have many Uncs? These might be worth more than you figure.
I like the article and it's the same high quality they usually write but in this case it only brushes on the opportunities in modern world coins....
I used to drive around from city to city and bank to bank looking for nice coins. I even had a system where I'd get a few quarters from...
The Kennedys as well have premiums as high as about 400%. It's true that a lot of these coins don't have much demand and tend to go begging but...
Hardly! Even "common" mint set coins like a 1978 Ike is worth $2 wholesale. Almost all of the sets are worth more busted up than complete and...
There's one thing that modern type coins will have going for them as long as there is almost no demand; rare high grade coins will be cheap....
There are far too few Gem Ikes to supply a mass market. It was about 1978 before I even knew they existed they were so few and far between. I...
The '05-D were satin finish and get a different designation. Most mint set coins can be found Gem without a lot of effort but Gems in...
I disagree because the added enhancements to mint set coins since 1968 can't be differentiated from run of the mill coins. Even regular strikes...
It was one of Ronald Reagan's cost cutting moves. Much to my surprise there was so much complaint that the mint sets were brought back in 1984....
Any fully lustrous '83-P is scarce. This coin is common enough in AU but most nice '83-P's came from circulation. The reason that MS-60's go for...
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