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| Foreword | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Modern U.S. Coinage: Index of Topics | |
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| Counting the Cost or 20 Years of Wandering | |
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| Choosing Our Course | |
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| Collections a Product of Coinage Environment | |
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| Primary Design Change Rates since 1793 | |
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| Rare Coin Market Behavior | |
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| Stable Designs | |
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| Unstable Designs | |
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| The Dawn of Changing Reverse Series | |
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| Competition Among Series with Different Structures | |
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| Key in Their Infancy | |
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| What Creates Them | |
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| When to Buy Them: Market Inventory, Absorption, Price & Time | |
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| When to Expect Them - Typical Inaugural Spike & Sales Collapse | |
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| Series Life Cycles and Growth Rates | |
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| Long Term Growth Among Denominations | |
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| Moderns as Design and Denomination Based Type Rarities | |
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| Mint State Type Coin Ranking for the Last 200 years and its Lessons | |
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| Proof Type Coin Ranking Since 1859 and its Lessons | |
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| Moderns and Classics: In the Same Family? | |
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| Precious Metals Prices and Numismatic Premiums | |
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| Common Pitfalls & Things to Remember | |
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| Gradeflation, Crack Outs, and Special Tags | |
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| Erosion of 70 Grade Premiums After Initial Issue | |
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| Classic High Grade Markets Indexed to Inflation | |
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| Common Coinage and Promotions | |
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| High Bullion Content Classics | |
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| Key Dates: The Strong Red Line | |
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| Coin Dealer Proverbs | |
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| The Series: | |
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| Lincoln Type Cents | |
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| Jefferson Type Nickels | |
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| Fifty State Quarters Basic Mint State | |
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| Fifty State Quarters Clad Proofs | |
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| Fifty State Quarters Silver Proofs | |
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| Sacagawea -Native American Dollars Basic Mint State | |
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| Sacagawea -Native American Dollars Proof | |
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| Presidential Dollars Basic Mint State | |
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| Presidential Dollars proofs | |
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| American Eagle Silver Dollars Mint State-The Modern Morgan | |
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| American Eagle Silver Dollars Proof | |
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| Clad Commemoratives Halves Proof and Mint State | |
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| Proof Commemorative Silver Dollars | |
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| Mint State Commemorative Silver Dollars | |
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| $5 Mint State Gold Commemoratives | |
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| $5 Proof Gold Commemoratives | |
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| $5 Mint State Gold Eagles | |
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| $10 Mint State Gold Eagles | |
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| $25 Mint State Gold Eagles | |
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| $50 Mint State Gold Eagles | |
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| $5 Proof Gold Eagles | |
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| $10 Proof Gold Eagles | |
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| $25 Proof Gold Eagles | |
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| $50 Proof Gold Eagles | |
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| Buffalo Gold and Silver all Issues | |
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| $10 Gold Commemoratives all Issues | |
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| First Spouse $10 Gold all Issues | |
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| $20 Ultra High Relief Gold Eagle | |
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| Rarest Type Set since World War I | |
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| $10 Proof Platinum Eagles | |
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| $25 Proof Platinum Eagles | |
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| $50 Proof Platinum Eagles | |
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| $100 Proof Platinum Eagles | |
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| Mint State Platinum Eagles-Changing Reverse | |
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| Mint State Platinum Eagles-Business Strikes | |
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| A Perfect Storm of Opportunity | |
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| Primary Recommendations | |
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| Circulating Coinage | |
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| Silver Coinage | |
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| Gold Coinage | |
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| Platinum Coinage | |
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| A 60 Trillion Dollar Wind at Your Collection's Back-Ultra Long Cycle Taxable Events | |
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| Bracket Creep-Who are the "Rich" in 2020? | |
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| Tax Deferred Retirement-The Taxman's Time Machine | |
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| Energy Based Tax Policy & Cost-Your Material Price Floor | |
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| Monetization of Debt | |
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| Modern Coins and Estate Planning: Shielding the Children Through Heirlooms | |
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| Thomas Jefferson's Commentary | |
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| Self-Directed IRAs-The Opportunities and Pitfalls | |
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| Making the Most Out of your Self-Directed IRA | |
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| Appendices: | |
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| Defining the Ratios | |
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| Modern Coin Dealers | |
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| Enabling Legislation and its Long Term Influence on the Series | |
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| Trends in The U.S. Mint's Weekly Sales Report | |
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| Master Mintage Listings of All Proof Eagles 1986 to 2008 | |
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| Master Mintage Listings of All Mint State Eagles 1986 to 2008 | |
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| Master Mintage Listings of Modern Commemoratives | |
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| Commemorative Coinage 1982-Present | |