James Duggan - Director
National Security Rare Coin Repository
33 Walt Whitman Rd., Huntington Sta., NY 11746
They are not rare.
Rare Coin Wholesalers was created in 1990.
I bought this coin when I was in Canada after seeing a TV promotion. Leter I searched the web to get information on that "rare 1911 cook island" coin. To my surprise there was no information whatsoever in the web! Was there really a rare 1911 cook island coin ? The replica coin was purported to be sold by NATIONAL COLLECTOR'S MINT. But there is no reference of this coin in their web site. Is this a hoax played by someone to make quick money by mis-using the name of NATIONAL COLLECTOR'S MINT ?
You can buy them at coin dealers and coin shows.
Just the year does not make a coin rare.
No, they are not rare.
No.
It means that the coin is rare. For example a 1909-S VDB cent is a key date. This coin is rare.
Determine how many were minted, when and where and the numismatic grade and, last but not least, the availability of the coin for purchase
No and they will never be rare.
It does not have to be old at all. An error in the minting of a coin may make it rare. What may turn out to be a rare coin may have been minted in 2012, but nobody has found it and come forward with it yet.
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