Admittedly I seldom have $100 bills in my wallet, but I can't recall a single time when a merchant refused my cash payment. Not saying it hasn't...
Very nice. You gave a lovely old coin a new lease on life.
At some point I'll be able to stop and take more pics, just not now. I've owned the coin for probably 20+ years, so obviously I'm not in any...
The photo I posted is the best I have, and unfortunately I'm not in a position right now to take more.
I've found plenty of high quality reference photos, but they haven't helped. I have to wonder if the distinction between high and low relief would...
Good to know it's not just me. :D
This is a quick-n-dirty taken several years ago that may not tell you much. Somehow I managed to bungle the lighting to the point that the coin...
I've owned a raw AU/UNC 1915 peso for years. And for almost as many years, I've tried to determine if it's the scarcer low relief variety. It...
He isn't going to do harm to ANY coin by cleaning it properly . . . "cleaning it properly" being the operative phrase. Neither water nor acetone...
You received 3 valuation opinions: post #2 ($10), post #3 ($10), and post #4 ("a dollar or two over melt"). He had already answered your original...
Arecibo is home to the world's second-largest single-dish radio telescope, famous for being the site of the Search for Extra Terrestrial...
Graphically that's so reminiscent of an Indiana Jones movie.
Wondered how long it would take before that one got posted. Arguably the definitive "Airplane on a coin" coin.
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I know that feeling well. Years ago it led to a wholesale redirection of my approach to collecting.
Not sure what the issue is, OP.
It's threads like this that keep me coming back to Coin Talk.
What tells are you seeing? And @Old World Coins, you said you picked up this coin "some time ago." How long ago was that?
Same here. I've had a fat man dollar for probably close to 30 years. Never questioned its authenticity, but when I started seeing more and more...
I would've guessed 35 as well.
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