Thanks everyone for your help. I checked out PCCB on eBay and Amazon and they are all shipped from China and are offered at wildly varying...
Acetone will not remove the fingerprint. I doubt that anything will without further damaging the coin but there are much more experienced people...
That is most generous of you, @Insider. But I can't help but believe that there is a vendor that makes the complete three part system that I'm...
It's obvious - we are incapable of learning from hard and bitter experience - we much prefer to stand by our beliefs however wrong experience...
I was at the last FUN Show in January and at one of the coin supplies vendor's areas I saw a display of slab inserts similar to the one shown...
To the OP's original question: For any coin with real value to you, whether financial or otherwise, you should always use fresh acetone. Once...
A lovely coin. If it's a proof, I think it's a PF67 and an early die state at that, before the lappers got to the dies. But I believe I see mint...
I grade it a 58 but I think it's slabbed at 64.
MS-64 FBL
I live in Central Florida and have found Summer FUN to be a rewarding show as a collector. It seems to me to be a 50% to 60% version of the...
No bean on the Franklin.
Maybe, maybe not. If the ID of the obverse hollow cylinder was only a few millimeters larger than the OD of the reverse anvil cylinder, then the...
This is the public announcement from the FUN Board of Directors: 2020 SUMMER FUN SHOW CANCELLED It is with great disappointment that the FUN...
You are correct. So, the raised lip on the reverse rim, just as the rim ding at 6, could have derived from something completely different. The...
I have seen a slabbed proof 1941 Walker where the dies were lapped so extensively that: - Liberty's outstretched hand was obliterated so that...
I'm going with no bean.
The History Channel program on Grant is pretty well done IMHO. As a side note, my father's grandmother was a little girl of about 7 when...
I've been thinking about this for the last day and have a hypothesis based upon some observations. This could be way off base but here goes:...
A gentle reminder that the coin's first showing in the OP's original post did not show the ICG holder or the grade. And most of us proffered our...
If you have germs on your hands and then put on gloves, you have transferred the germs to the surface of the gloves. Kind of defeats the purpose.
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