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…
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…
Interesting term, isn’t it? What is meant by junk silver, is old U.S. silver coinage. Quarters, dimes and half dolllars made prior to 1965 is considered junk silver. These coins have 90% silver and is sought after by those wanting to buy silver with very little premium. Most of these coins have been highly circulated…
What is going on with the gold market? Gold seemed to be holding it’s own as we started the new year, but things have gone awry ever since. Gold hit a 4 month low in mid march of 2015 and experts are predicting much of the same for the rest of the year. Many people…
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…
