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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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, Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more