I need to find a new hobby quick. It looks like most coin collectors keel over when they reach 70. I am assuming that the one 80+ didn't start...
Good point about plastics dissolving. I have never had any issues with mylar and acetone. I can't address acetone and other plastics, or say...
I didn't notice the weight and composition differences as the description said the 3's differed, so that's what I focused on. I was hoping for...
The Jefferson Nickel Analyst, Bernard Nagengast, has pictures of some of the die varieties. There also have been detailed discussions about the 72...
I use a cotton swab dipped in acetone to clean the inside of the 2X2 just before I put the coin.
Sorry, just woke up. 57. Collected as a kid (~8-14), discovered girls then birding, back to collecting at 52.
There apparently are two types of threes on 1904 3 pence coins (KM#'s 797.1 and 797.2). I've searched my books and the web but can't find much...
I'd never pay that kind of money for a raw pen. I'd bet there's a big scratch on the reverse. Notice that dwhiz above at least included...
Don't mean to belittle your biological knowledge, but shouldn't it be "Picked this GIRL up this week". Or all coins male, like all boats are female?
I, too, am an avid Kennedy collector (I even have all of the various die marriages from the early part of the series). However, I am not...
I forget. Was PCGS grading more coins per person than whatever the limit was? If so, they need to share in the blame. If not, I apologize.
Ok, your coin is either 26s, 27s, 28s 29s or 30s. That's probably about as good as you're going to get. Sorry, I hoped it would the 18/17s....
You can use diagnostics to narrow it down quite a bit. Unless they are worn to barely recognizable as SLQs, the 1916, 1917, 1917D and 1917S...
You're right, I spoke imprecisely. I should have said that both color variations arise due to oxidation of the coin. The wood grain doesn't show...
I'm curious. Several people mentioned a lower grade due this coin being a "woody". I was under the impression that the MS grades were supposed...
Not TNT, but it did end up on the Mercury reverses. Can't tell. Is this one FSB?;)
The '34 looks like the weak motto variety. Might get you a small premium should you decide to sell.
Just a thought. Would it be possible for the ANA to reserve a nearby venue to house things like the mint first-day releases that past experience...
My take on this is that, in contrast to on-line orders that can filled as coins are produced, sales at the mint shop require that the coin be...
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