Yes, that was my point. The mint was prohibited from doing it and couldn't make it happen. But making smaller poorly-struck examples in gold was...
That's not quite what I was getting at. My point is that any limit is arbitrary and should be avoided. The problem is not the quantity of...
I don't think they should limit the number of commemoratives per year to one (or any number). After all, some years it would make sense to issue a...
Simpler method. You eat it. If it was delicious, it's chocolate.
Picked this up the other day. Austria AR 6 Kreuzer 1849B (Hungary) KM-2200 This is the first Hungarian issue attributable to Franz Joseph I....
I write on the submission form which side I want as the obverse, so that there are no mistakes. I just notate something like "date side obverse"....
Yea the first, second, third, etc. examples of the coin that I own, starting at 001.
I do this: Country_DateMM_Denom_Ordinal_OBV.JPG Country_DateMM_Denom_Ordinal_REV.JPG Country_DateMM_Denom_Ordinal_SLAB_OBV.JPG...
The Fairfax Coin Club has a very active young numismatist program - one of our board members is specifically a YN coordinator. We run YN auctions,...
Only John is at fault. He didn't secure his valuables or explain their significance properly. It wasn't the step-mother's responsibility to...
I use q-tips for applying light machine oil to iron, steel, and zinc coins, and also for spot treating with verdicare. I carefully roll the head...
The above is true, however, I found that proofs sometimes get cloudy as soon as the acetone evaporates off of the coin. This cloudiness I think is...
You'd think so, except that's not the reality. Reading half the threads on this site will tell you that. Plus many of us have had a coin come...
That's not how coin grading works. It's why computers can't grade coins accurately. If we had a standard that could be objectively applied, we...
Since when does the presence of subjectivity preclude there being a standard? Think of graders as judges (in the legal or sports sense) following...
It counts! Woo hoo!1!!!!11!!!eleven!!!
Doug's playing the long game here. Only took 15 years for this thread to take off.
Simple and effective. I wish they had done this from the start. It's inconsistent to sometimes give a grade bump for eye appeal and sometimes give...
Some die characteristics of the originals on the shield are different on this one. This example matches modern replicas. They sell them here in...
Sometimes. I have sometimes owned multiple examples of the same variety if there was a significant difference between die states, a remarriage, or...
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