They're both conditions (to my mind). "Mint State" and "Uncirculated" seem to mean about the same thing, although you can move a coin around a bit...
What, you don't think it got that way from getting stuck in a dryer? ;)
The other way around, I think. All truly BU coins are MS, but not all MS coins are brilliant.
Most US gold and silver got reeded or lettered edges to avoid this. Processes like sweating were probably more common. In a thread on another...
Walked by the CS in Harris-Teeter the other day and there was a pile in the reject slot, probably two dozen coins. Mostly foreign, a couple of...
I think the standard reply to this is "it's too soon to tell".
Okay, if this was all done by volcanic fumes, it could very well be 100% natural -- but that still doesn't make it market acceptable. It doesn't...
And I thought I could find something to appreciate in almost any kind of bust.
But those were anything but "small, slow fluctuations in supply and demand." It's often, perhaps always, hard to distinguish a "speculative...
GENERALLY. From 2010 to 2011, silver's price more than doubled; my dollars did not lose half their buying power elsewhere during that time. From...
I don't think those are likely to pass as natural toning (NT), but I'm not a modern toner enthusiast, so I may well be wrong. If I had those, and...
Only in very small part, if that. When silver went from $12 to $28 last year, the prices of everything else didn't double. When it went from over...
If my surname were Joplin, I wouldn't have named a daughter Janis. If my surname were Hendrix, I wouldn't have named a son Jimi (or James). If...
Ah, looks like you missed the other thread.
Now, I ask you, does this look like a novice collector? ;) [IMG]
Needs a choice for "Mmm, waffles..."
No, no, the laws of physics require travel into the future. They just don't allow travel into the past. (And that's why we can't have...
How do you hold the coin in the cleaner? Putting the coin in a basket is likely to cause damage, right? I can imagine some tap water wouldn't...
Why stop there? Sell the coins, travel to the future, steal them, bring them back, and sell them again! Now you've got twice as many of each coin!...
Maybe a quarter-eagle planchet "got mixed in" with the cent planchets in 1859, and nobody noticed... :rolleyes:
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