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I'll go 65 because I am cheap.
6 inches wont necessarily get you a DMPL nowadays.
here is another fun one, die cracks around the letters yet DMPL and this coin has deep mirrors. [ATTACH]
What die polish? [ATTACH] I am looking for one of my images that was clashed and then the clash was polished off and it became DMPL again.
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This was a small one day show and the 2 day shows are much better. Keep in mind for the next Santa Clara show it is the same weekend as Baltimore...
I guess the easy answer is a freshly polished die was used. In reality it was more than that as not all years have DMPLs produced so there had to...
I am there teaching the 2nd week, will be great to meet more members!
Give it a couple shots without the lightbox. I find diffused lighting to greatly reduce contrast on coins and then will often lack depth afterwards.
Here are the grades: PCGS 63 PCGS 63DMPL PCGS 63DMPL OGH PCGS 63DMPL OGH PCGS 63DMPL OGH NGC 64
That is pretty amazing color for a V nickel.
Doug- I guess I am a little predictable. A few more guesses and I will show the grades, good guesses so far.
Replace the reveals with some other bulbs, set your white balance and play with them. Natural sunlight would be a great answer but you cannot...
These are all from the show, being a CAL resident the extra 8-9% for taxes does not help me. I was way under on my auction bids.
Here are a few Morgan purchases from Long Beach. Always looking for thoughts on the grades and opinions of the coins. Fire away!! 1885-O...
Then use VAMworld it is updated all the time.
That link is missing a lot of varieties on this VAM. I just had 2 more discoveries as part of the sequence that is now up to 12 VAMs for this one...
I know the VAM 2's. That is some version of the VAM 2c.
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