A very common term in the metals business is “junk silver”. Many people walk into the shop asking for our price on junk. Junk silver is Quarters, dimes and half dollars prior to 1965. There is a bit of a fine line however, with some of the older coins. The barber, Liberty Seated, and the…
Had a customer call in and inquire about the value of her half dollars. She didn’t have them in front of her, so she could not tell me the dates or any other details. I told her to gather them up and come into the shop. She came in about an hour later.This customer had…
I sat with a very nice lady yesterday as she told me about the coins that she had collected over the years. She had Eisenhower silver dollars, Kennedy half dollars and lots of other silver dimes and quraters that were “old”, She hasd also purchased a gold plated silver quarter set that was in a…
Mint marks are pretty important when evaluating a coin. The date, condition, and mint marks are among the top criteria in determining the value of your coin. The mint mark tells you where your coin was minted. Listed below are the various mints wher coins were made: D Denver S San Francisco C…
I hear it over and and over. In fact, there isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear something negative about the coin shops in town. Comments from customers suggest rudeness, or apathy when visiting certain cooin shops in town.Don’t get me wrong, I know it is impossible to please every person who…
This is an interesting question, and one to be debated among novice and the most advanced collector. There were many coins made around the world and many made particularly in the United States. Most would agree that beauty “Is in the eye of the beholder” and is very subjective, but there is one coin that…
If you ask most serious collectors when they first started collecting coins, you will often get the same answer, “When I was a kid”. People can easily go back in their minds to a time when they were young, reading and studying coins books, organizing their collections, and making lists of the must have…
The Indian Head Penny is really cool! We see many indian head pennies come into the shop. They range in date, condition, and color. There were only 2 mints that made the Indian Head Penny, Philidelphia and San Francisco. The coin was minted in Philidelphia from 1859 thru 1909, but the San Francisco mint made…
We are consumers in America-Big time! ,We live in the greatest and wealthiest nation in the world, it’s no wonder that we have so much excess at the end of our lives. Things have piled up in our closest’s, the garage has boxes in the rafters and utensils hanging on the walls. Our attics are…
We get this question a lot, “What is the best coin to buy?”…Its a good question, but one that is very difficult to answer without first inquiring as to what the objective is of the person asking. The world of gold and silver coins is huge, and the choices at first glance appear to be…
