I know centering is less consistent on ancient coins, and that an off-center error is much less of a big deal on these handmade pieces than it...
It’s time for the drawing, but I’m going to wait until such time as I’m on a proper desktop PC instead of my phone (which makes all that...
This is an entry for “Bigtime36” on Collectors Universe, who is interested in Coin C.
Didn’t you win an 1838-O No Stars dime in one of my early CT giveaways, or am I thinking of someone else?
I was talking about MY elongates, not Babe Ruth’s!
I had totally overlooked that anyway. I’ve used those too, for exactly that reason. But the Lighthouse ENCAPS do have the advantage of allowing...
True, I’d even become a Teletubbies collector if they were on 5-oz. gold pucks for 180 bux a whack…
Oh, I'll bet it's the 5-ounce gold pucks done for the 59th anniversary of Gilligan's Island... ;)
Maybe the Presidential Pets medalette series done on unplated Zincoln planchets...?
What are you getting?
Indeed.
I have used White's, Garrett, Bounty Hunter, Fisher, and Troy machines. I also have an old Minelab out in the shed but never really used it much...
I'm gonna predict UNC details/cleaned, though I guess there's a small chance it might get a pass. Hope so.
I see your buddy Joe is a member of the Garrett Mafia, like I was. I don't know what it was (a furniture escutcheon of some kind, maybe?), but I...
The lady on that 50-lirot note looks like my mother did in the early '60s. The nose is a bit off, but otherwise, yeah, that looks more than a...
The Maryland one is painfully obvious.
Technically, you won them in one of the Quarter Notes contests, for which I am merely the contest facilitator and distributor. Not the donor....
Oops. Correction: I got my Trade dollars mixed up, there. There were two I bought around the same time. One was the aforementioned ANACS VF20...
Here’s something else you can do, if you also keep paperwork with your coins.
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