VKurtB

Dang purdy. 

The American Numismatic Association has a definition, to which I subscribe. Their exhibit rules (I am a member of the Exhibiting Committee) for Class 4 - Modern Coins and Medals, the John Esbach Award, endowed by the Red Rose Coin Club of Lancaster, PA (of which I am a past President) states that the line of demarcation is 1960, not any other date. It applies to ALL countries, not just the U.S. 
By the way, Britain went off .925 silver in 1920, and off 50% silver in 1947. 1964 is just soooo Amerocentric thinking 

Dan Tony Carr Montana, is that you?

Eat from drive-through fast food, wear diapers, and have Smith and Wesson on your hip.

Wrong. It IS an ordinary business strike, and not a particularly good one. 

He obviously never heard of Carl Sagan. 
 
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” was a phrase made popular by Carl Sagan who reworded Laplace's principle, which says that “the weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness” (Gillispie et al., 1999).

There is ABSOLUTELY NO activity that a majority of collectors engage in. All are minority activities. Not NGC nor P¢G$ membership, not ANA membership, not attendance at any show, not buying or selling on FleaBay. 

For so-called “important” collections, so far it has been both. Among the top U.S. collections that come onto the auction market, they have overwhelmingly been raw while still in the hands of the collectors. Frequently the submission for grading and slabbing is done by the auction house, as part of preparing the collection for sale, at GREATLY reduced rates from the “normal” prices. As time marches on, more material will arrive in the market already slabbed, but we’re faaaaaar from a majority in that status.
As for the world coin market, slabbed is still a tiny minority. 

Truly high end coin auctions are handled at a quite leisurely pace. While a Pennsylvania back country coin auction might sell about 100 coins per hour, when they get to “star of the sale” coins, 36 seconds doesn’t cut it. Five minutes may be taken, particularly if there are phone bidders. At a “real” high end sale, like a Signature sale or Platinum Night sale, the pace is more like 35-40 per hour. Keep in mind, prebids are already in the book.  

Have you escaped the profound idiocy happening at Columbia University?

Of coins that spent nearly their entire existence waiting to be melted into Ft. Knox bars? Hardly. If the Treasury Department had that little respect for them, why should I? My collecting preference is for unusually nice coins of types that people actually used. Except for the difference in inherent value, St. Gaudens $20 gold coins were the Presidential or Innovation Dollars of their era. Unloved, largely unknown, and mostly unused. 

The natural enemy of coins. 

The main reason these dies were horribly overused was the Mint’s absolute CERTAINTY that these coins would be fabulously popular with the public and would soon replace the $1 bill.  What can I tell you? It was the Carter Administration. 

“When ah sez whoa, ah mean WHOA!”

But the St. Gaudens worship lives on forever. 

The main reason these dies were horribly overused was the Mint’s absolute CERTAINTY that these coins would be fabulously popular with the public and would soon replace the $1 bill.  What can I tell you? It was the Carter Administration. 

The main reason these dies were horribly overused was the Mint’s absolute CERTAINTY that these coins would be fabulously popular with the public and would soon replace the $1 bill.  What can I tell you? It was the Carter Administration. 

No. Every coin they work on is a different process. Many chemicals can come into play. They know the proper way and the order the chemicals should be used to leave the surfaces of the coin stable. A simple dip or an acetone bath is not what many coins need. Some coins require a really long bath in a solution to slowly remove a problem without damaging the coin.  

Good coin for a grading set. 

There is ABSOLUTELY NO activity that a majority of collectors engage in. All are minority activities. Not NGC nor P¢G$ membership, not ANA membership, not attendance at any show, not buying or selling on FleaBay. 

Yes, because the one thing you can ALWAYS count on is coin collectors being chatty about what they own. /eye roll so huge you can hear it
Face it: most of the most advanced collections today are cloaked in 100% secrecy. If ANYONE knows what’s out there, it’s the dealers that top collectors are working with.

Where do you see any object that is retained on this ASE??  I see some discoloration/tarnish/gunk/staining that looks like residue from spilled coffee over a rubber band that was used to hold together a group of ASE's.   But I do not see any strike through of any type, retained or otherwise.

Correct, full stop. It’s like counting ballots in a county with deep red and deep blue precincts. You can tell when the precinct changes. 

When discussing British coins, modern has an obvious line of demarcation - decimalisation.

Correct, full stop. It’s like counting ballots in a county with deep red and deep blue precincts. You can tell when the precinct changes.