It's hard for new guys everywhere. It may be against your nature but the best way to break into a new place is to just break into a new place....
Sacs sure don't get much attention. I think if small dollars ever get into circulation things will probably change.
I try not to call it anything but have been known to call it "corrosion" or just "green" in context. "I have to get the green off my old copper...
I hate the word "verdigris" almost as much as I hate "et al" used by soft scientists.
It's very difficult to put away Gem clad. It's not all that scarce but it's scarce enough to take a lot of shoe leather and some real work....
These have high catalog values but beware that they are quite common and Krause can't price their way out of a paper bag. I think I'd feel...
It is a very pretty coin and finding these pretty is none too easy. But MS-67 seems way too high. The services get pretty intent of "luster"...
I'm not a real big Morgan fan either and never imagined I'd collect them. But back in 1977 they were very cheap and I did anyway. ;) I just...
Nice coin. I like the nice solid strikes from good dies. The services tend to be pretty hard on marking though so I'm going to guess MS-66....
Looks 65 to me. Finding the top of the shield clean is pretty tough with these. I think I'd soak in in alcohol though.
Perhaps. But about the same day the mint quits making them they will disappear from circulation.
A business needs a steady flow of coins. Without a sufficient number of pennies they'll have to round ALL cash transactions. When all the stores...
It looks like a real beaut but I'm guessing it has a few unfortunate scratches; MS-64++.
Let me put it another way; the common wisdom is always wrong. The common wisdom is that mint and proof sets are a waste of money and they go...
I doubt very many Nazi coins were destroyed. Probably the bulk of the coins in government possession were destroyed but this is often a...
The next generation of collectors will be people who were children within the last couple decades and collected states quarters. It doesn't...
When they discontinue maintaining the cents in circulation they will most probably melt all the coins on hand and announce a redemption period...
One of the best bargains in coin collecting today are out of the money slabbed moderns. If I had known in 1972 that I'd be able to buy some of...
This is another problem with the desirability and value of these sets; people do assume they are picked over and to a degree they are correct. An...
I've thought it was imminent for nearly 40 years now so I could be wrong... ...still. There is something very different now though and that is...
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