I did recently upgrade my lighting to the "TOMLOV Digital Microscope Gooseneck LED Fill Lights, 6-Watt Aluminum Auxiliary Spotlights with Dimmable...
One person's cheap is $20, another's is $1,000... There is a very good, but dense, long-running thread across the street (ATS) on serious...
Oh, it's easy... Other people's royalty are funny. If it were the idijits you were paying for not so much.
To my tastes, PCGS is a little too proud of their plastic. NGC includes wider data (esp. for world coins), but neither is a really good indicator....
Chemical plating (not electro plating, that comes much later)
No probs. I just lie on surveys.
Not according to their accounting https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-US-Mint-Annual-Report.pdf Check the chart for...
The restriction on the ASE mintage was - reportedly - due to inability to acquire sufficient planchets. The law requires the mint to procure...
And it's clearly printed on top of the security features. It's simply that the alcohol-based stamp-pad ink isn't sticking to the intaglio printed...
By law, the mint has to cover its costs on numismatic products. I personally think the are putting too much of the fixed costs in that bucket....
When it comes to the impaired proof stand-ins, well, even if they aren't perfect, I love them all :-) [ATTACH]
Larry has the right of it. Now a word of caution -- posting pocket change and too many of those at once - is a good way for you to be ignored by...
Ron Guth's comments in PCGS CoinFacts "beware of proofs masquerading" and the comment on 1885 imply there are ways to differentiate. WRT my 3CS...
Nope ... coins on either side of it are different MEXICO 1925 M 20C EF 45 MEXICO MEXICO 1924 M PESO AU 58 MEXICO NETH 1887 10C MS 61 NETH
I'd need the cert#. The Mexican samples I know of are Centavos not full (silver) pesos.
Sorry about that Meow - the only cat allowed to play with things in the cat hoard should be Meow. I have a totally different opinion about the...
And I like it - you can see what's what in a box. The yellow gets to be a bit much, but ...
ATS, DC himself said SEGS does too. But I asked if SEGS is still in business - the SSL cert for their website expired 10 days ago. I get they...
Bar code type 1 doesn't appear until they are into the all numeric certs.
Nah those are production slabs.
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