I’m a big traveler and as such one of the souvenirs I often collect and bring back home are coins. They are a simple and usually cheap memento of what was hopefully a fabulous trip. I also like to bring back coins for the young children in my life. They are a fun and easy…
I get a number of calls on a weekly basis from people asking about a modern coin that they found. Either the coin has a mint error, or a small date or something else that might differentiate that coin from it’s common counterpart. Indeed rare coins can be found in pocket change, but the probabilities…
Dont get ripped off People that traveled the world, especially those who fought in wars, have stashes of foreign coinage. Most of the time we see coins that were simply currency at some point, and are not rare. We do see the occasional rare foreign coin, but it’s not the norm. Most coin dealers pay…
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…
We get asked about older paper money all the time. People have saved notes that they thought looked cool, or money that was on the tail end of circulation. One of the notes we most often see, is the silver certificates. We see many of the 1957 and 1935 varieties. There are several factors when…
