... if you know what to look for. Even still, I find it amazing how misguided some collectors are when it comes to reading them.
Case in point, the 1982-D Washington half dollar, a common coin that has sold for hundreds and even thousands of dollars in MS-69.
Who carved out a niche in these coins when prices were so high and who got fooled into buying these "conditionally rare" coins when they weren't conditionally rare to begin with.
I dig into it in this week's column:
http://www.coinweek.com/modern-coin...s-seriously/you also definitely wan't to check out next week's column on gold coin collecting. I promise, it'll open your eyes.
... and coming in November, the first chapter of Hubert and my first book "The Rational Collector: Dialogues in the Pursuit of Theoretical Numismatics", one chapter of which will be published each month online. The full book will be available for download at the usual eBook places.
C