Here's a new discovery piece...1994-P BIE (actually it's an IIBIE) [IMG]
Separating the true errors and varieties from the PMD and fakes is the most important skill you will learn.
The first rule of Error and Variety searching is to look at the coins first, then look at the references to attribute your interesting finds. I...
Sorry, I'm a Wheat only guy, but I do like the coin.
I personally really, really like that coin. Roll edge toning that has crept onto the surfaces at the edges is really attractive IMO.
I too am very fond of the 56-D. So many varieties to look for! It's one of my favorite rolls to purchase because of this. It has the RPM#1,...
The key to getting pics like brg5658 shows (with inky black fields) is to have the lights high enough to illuminate the devices without edge...
Not a digital microscope but a Canon DSLR with bellows and microscope objective. Digital microscopes can't come anywhere close to this quality.
The term "BIE" is loosely applied to pretty much any anomaly occurring around the letters of LIBERTY. So in this case the coin is a "multiple" die...
I just got a new BIE listing on COC site. It's a 1994 IIBIE, multiple chip type. Here are the pics I took that are now posted on the COC site:...
Axial lighting works well for raw coins but not so well for slabs due to the glare created from direct reflection from the slab surface. I would...
My first and only grading experience was with ANACS, and it was a group of 10 high grade LWC varieties. The coins came back with a smudge in the...
I highly recommend the "smile directors" I developed a few years ago, or similar concept, to light slabs, and raw coins as well. Before you make...
A little judicious post-processing of levels can go a long way as well: [IMG]
Agreed. Flat surfaces of features should be brighter than their edges. If the lights you're using are large, sometimes you can mask them so they...
The sharp quality of such a clash indicates that the coin was struck fairly soon after the clash occurred. Often the clash is caught when it...
I did an automated overlay of a 2014 Roosevelt clash showing on both sides. Take a look here: http://www.macrocoins.com/overlays.html
I've heard multiple accounts of it indeed working. The rice does a similar thing to the commercial dessicants, though it has a limited capacity to...
Yes, water can be sealed, but not with plastic no matter what PCGS tells you. It takes a "glass" material to make a hermetic seal. Perhaps...
My questions were actually rhetorical in nature. It's impossible to seal off air or moisture using plastic materials. They are permeable to both...
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