*Whew!* Now I’ll have to leave it out to retone a bit.
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If anybody wants to try this themselves, I’m happy to share the Word document for those backpaper templates. Just print, cut out, add your own...
I decided to go through my random assortment of holed US coins to see how far along towards a basic 19th century type set they would be. Mind...
Yes, on detector finds. Not here.
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There might be hope yet. Acetone did nothing, but I baked the coin in a very hot oven for 20 minutes or so, then cooled it off in the freezer....
Huh? We've got 'em all over the place. But our dog kills them if they're unfortunate enough to get into the yard. But what's that got to do...
XF40. I'm not sure whether -details or straight graded. It appears to have been cleaned and there's a lot of surface chatter, though both are...
The story: this was put away with some stuff in our storage shed after our last move, and it ended up staying out there three years in the heat...
@rmpsrpms can show you some a lot closer than that! Oh, wait. Sorry. You meant close to the date. I thought you were talking about closeup...
I agree- 30 bucks is crazy. But more than a dollar or two. I'd go five.
It ought to be identifiable to within a year or two, I think- maybe more precisely, by someone knowledgeable of Newcomb varieties. (I am not that...
Unique, though not a unique type. The only Champion medal I've seen in silver. I've seen eight of these WW2 deployment medals in bronze. They...
I grade that MS-fantastic.
I can agree on both counts. To be fair, the collecting aesthetic was a bit different 300 years ago.
This piece evidently dates to the 1730s and is in a Polish museum. It was a tankard fit for a king, perhaps literally. I haven’t found out much...
Micro-porous surfaces due to environmental damage. Notches in the rim. Definitely not a straight-grade coin due to those issues. That being...
... but if you say the dies don't match...
Ditto, though it's tough to say due to the "photo of a computer screen" aspect.
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