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Another important thing you need to learn is the difference between AU58 and MS63. In the picture of the 16 coins, the 1935 and the leftmost 1939...
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Still planned to happen. I'll be making my decision late this year whether or not to go.
I will do this. I hesitated posting about it, because I didn't want to hijack this thread with something that should be a thread of its own....
I see three lights on the reverse picture. I'd turn off the one at 4:00. The others are positioned so that you won't fill the shield lines. You...
Nice cent! I'm going to nitpick, since that's where we are with this picture. There are a couple tough choices to make when shooting this....
The OP coin was in a blank silver dollar folder. The text on the page covering the coin read something like "This folder for silver dollar has...
Interesting. I've heard the adage about 32-D quarters that "if it looks added, it's real," but I haven't ever studied them. I went looking...
I refer to them as Whitman toned. I haven't seen one as sharp as the OP coin, though. That's pretty sweet. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Little D over glue used to fasten the little D.
David Lange did a series of articles in The Numismatist probably at least 20 years ago on assembling the ultimate 20th century type set. I'll...
As I said earlier, toning hides things. There's only one way to find out, and I don't recommend it.
Correct. I want 2 for my Dansco, and that's it.
Imagine if they did bullion, "burnished", proof, reverse proof, enhanced uncirculated finishes for both reverse types and struck them at all 4...
I'll get one of each BU when I can for my Dansco. I doubt that either of the bullion coins will be considered scarce enough to warrant a premium....
Leroy Van Allen and A. George Mallis. They're the two gentlemen who first collaborated on what is now known as the VAM book back in the 1960s....
They aren't primary diagnostics for VAMs in general, but make good fingerprints that let you confirm an attribution, and for 1921 and 1921-D there...
Yeah, I'm not giving that a bean.
Toning hides things. The obverse is more worrisome than the reverse for me. There are ticks on the cheek by the upper arrow, and it seems like...
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