There are four major professional grading services: PCGS, NGC, ICG, and ANACS. While collectors are certainly welcome – and encouraged – to grade their own coins, these four services are typically used to grade high-end examples of older or rarer coins. These companies are professionally recog...
Learn the terms –Teaching the terms numerator and the denominator is important to do upfront when working on fractions. Therefor, be sure to give many examples and write it out for the kids to see, as you teach them this. Math Journals –use writing prompts for practice understanding and ...
The recipe stayed the same until 1965, when the rising silver price was causing problems. Not only were the coins becoming more expensive to produce, people were starting to hoard them. Soon, it was conjectured, the silver content might be worth more than the face value of the coin. It ...
A double die error occurs during the creation of the die which presses the design into the coins. That has to be struck repeatedly in order to capture every detail of the design. But if it moves during that process, a double image will result. That’s then transferred to the coins struc...
The 10-cent coin minted in 1942 was one of a series colloquially known as “Mercury dimes”. But just what might one of these coins be worth? That’s what we’re here to find out! We’re going to look at the 1942 dime value, and the different factors that affect it. And we’ll...
For example, two consecutive lines from Paletero Man demonstrate this trend: “We called out your name when we saw your coins drop but you must have not heard us because you didn’t stop. Muchas gracias amigos.” Contrary to our predictions, however, picture books in our sample had higher...