Your total out of pocket cost was less than the value received so, even though things didn't go as desired, you didn't lose anything. Not worth...
On the MOH scale, the hardness of baking soda is 2.5; the hardness of Au and Ag is 2.5-3.0 and Cu is 3.0 It MAY be safe to use baking soda to...
I've seen this test pattern plenty of times in the past, but never on a coin. [IMG]
If he's not going to tell us what he used he shouldn't have posted in the first place. I think he's trolling us.
Click on the OP's picture for a larger view. It looks like a D/D to me but the mintmark is further to the right than the one in BostonCoins'...
I see an image of Buckwheat on the reverse side.
The only way I might get sucked into an offering like this is if they did it like the storage unit sales. Just open the boxes, let you look at...
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I din't know if the mint uses lasers to engrave dies but a laser was doing something at 0:22 in sean5150's video. At any rate, laser engraving...
I suppose we have to trust that they don't deliver 18 blank rounds sandwiched between two genuine eagles.
My comment referred to uncirculated coins. They are minted by the millions and with no special handling of any kind, just jumbled in with other...
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The Mint doesn't mass produce circulating coins to please discerning collectors; they're made to spend in commerce. Their SMS sets are for...
Put the 2x2's in sideways. That way you can hold the album with the hinge horizontal allowing you to see the coins' obverse correctly and then...
Without wading through 323 posts in this thread (to date) to find out, has PCGS made an official statement on this issue?
You can zoom in with a phone camera. Just spread apart two fingers on the screen.
It's all I use and I haven't expierenced any problems (yet).
Someone's going to have to tell me what a sample is.
I wonder if the OP is related to jazzcoins?
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