Keeping the US pieces, since that was the original aim of the set. I still need to contact Bob Levinson to see if he has 1487, 89, or 93 coins...
Within the past 3 years, I have had two inbound packages go missing. Both were registered. One was stolen in Chicago and the other more recently...
I don't know what the coin looks like. To me, it looks like there's something red reflecting in the first picture and the left one of the second...
Here's my PCGS showcase gallery. This coin and a 1553 Taler aren't in it yet. They're off to PCGS next month. I also have coins from 1481 and...
This Prussian 1531 Groschen just showed up the other day, filling the last hole in a run from 1499 to present. [IMG]
The "tail" on the 7 in the first picture is a piece of lint on the holder. The "alligator eye" you see is likely just reflections from the lighting.
It was being scraped by AI Bots at the tune of over 60K hits per hour and went to 100% CPU as a result. Thursday I shut it down and while I...
Roger is a regular on VAMWorld. He finds a few gems in the archives for us now and then. Back in December he kick-started a flurry of activity...
VAMWorld, where I'm the site admin, and PCGS. I lurk on the CAC forums now and then.
Nikon D610, 200mm Micro-Nikkor, two gooseneck lamps. At home I use a Kaiser RS-1 copy stand, at shows I use a Feisol carbon fiber tripod with the...
Roger Burdette has turned up correspondence showing that improper planchet preparation was the cause for a lot of the New Orleans weak strikes....
Much of the weak strike problems in New Orleans was due to the planchets not being properly annealed before striking.
90-O is a pancake issue, and this is no exception, being exceptionally weak.
I watched Road to Perdition, set in 1938, recently. Coins appearing were correct. A Peace dollar was used to pay a kid and someone twirled a...
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