I use a hammer, but I stand the slab on the long edge on a concrete floor and whack the upper edge a few times. Eventually you hear a pop and the...
I'll add my purchase here, since I alluded to it a couple pages ago. 1798 $1 PCGS VF20. BB-119, but I bought it for the look. Fortunately, it's a...
Pa-ting!!
This was the table of a friend of mine. Not only was it a lot of bust dollars, it was every die stage of every die marriage through 1803, except...
Seen in the men's room at FUN. This must be where sh***y coins are made. [ATTACH]
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Maybe $30 or so in that grade? Not a coin I would send in for grading. They're not rare in high grade.
I usually like a solid black background as it shows nothing but the coin, and that's usually what I want to see. I've had customers that have...
The struggle between slabs and albums is real. I have an ASE set that's in a Dansco and I just love the heft of it and the thuddy slap of the...
Die cracks like those shown are usually not cataloged on their own in the VAM catalog. They have to be much stronger or more damaging to the die...
Sure, but it'd be rejected as you have to qualify to make that kind of bid.
I thought it was earlier than that, but that they charged a fortune for it and really only wanted to encourage its use for major rarities.
The recreated statues are lifeless because they haven't lived yet. The older ones acquired a lot of character with age. As for modern coin...
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I compiled these into a single webpage in my variety resources: Fugio Reference No effort was spent on presentation, but the info is all there,...
The smell is from dust that settles on the burner over the course of the year. That's what needs to be cleaned. Duct cleaning is overrated....
Castle season 6, episode 6. A cryptic scavenger hunt that leads to a lost cache of 1792 half dismes. They get a lot of the superficial stuff and...
Interesting. For the late date cents, I manually do what it looks like the software does with date position. Note what I think the date position...
1897 is a date that has been under-studied with respect to VAMs. The mintage is too large for the number of VAMs cataloged. This means that...
I keep mine mostly constrained to this space. The VAM book pictured is a signed hardcover, not my working copy. I actually have several signed...
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