I agree. I have a full set of Classic Head Half Cents. And by "full" I mean all the Cohen varieties. For my Type Set I use my 1834 half cent; it's...
Oh, and it has a capability that I haven't seen mentioned in regard to other loupes. Using just the 6x lens you can place it on a dealer's display...
As I understand it, EAC first grades a coin by normal methods (essentially ANA standards), then they start taking into account problems that the...
That's what I use. Mine's a 3+6=9 Achromat. It was a Xmas gift from MFD.
How did you mail it? USPS? First Class? Insurance? Registered? How much did it weigh?
And that's another factor. The coin has too much value to buy raw. Why isn't it slabbed to prove authenticity?
Yep, it looks cleaned (dipped) to me.
I gave up stamp collecting in the late 1980's. I had a good US collection and a good KGVI GB&BC collection. Sold the older part of the US...
I agree except I think it has a chance to straight grade.
Yeh, FDR bugged the heck out of the POD to keep issuing new stamps.
Good planning by your parents. After WWII and Korea, and too young for Vietnam.
I've been doing a birth year set (1941) for 10-15 years. Still have about 20 affordable coins to go. Can't make any headway on 2 centavos...
HEY!!! No fair. That's the type of image I'm trying to get on my proof coins. Please let me know the hardware you're using. And the camera settings.
Nope, don't have any such device.
Thanks. I'll give changing the ISO setting a try. The 1000 works well with ordinary toned 19th century coins. But I knew proofs are a whole...
Did that. Not attracted to it. I'm looking to see if it's something like CuNi. Ferrous magnets won't attract CuNi coins. I'm after something that...
I would like something stronger than Ferrous magnets. But I don't want something that would pull the nails out of a wall. Or the iron out of my...
-- Manual focus -- ISO 1000 -- f/11 (want depth of field) -- Auto select
This is the best I've done -- so far. The coin is in an NGC slab. And in hand there's no question that it's a proof. VERY mirror-like in the...
My mistake. The Kindle version is available for about $15 each on Amazon. I don't have Kindle so it didn't occur to me to check for that. I just...
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