• I use a small glass food storage container with a snap-on plastic lid to slow evaporation. • I buy acetone in a quart can sold in the painting...
What's a verietys?
I've spent my entire adult life looking at fonts, so they're always the first place I go when I check the authenticity of a slabbed coin.
Actually I probably overstated that. Not "quite different", but different enough in certain details of some of the letters and numbers to know...
The fonts are one obvious tell. Both serif fonts, but otherwise quite different.
I'm guess his lightly circulated coin was recently released from someone's collection. In my experience only the really worn ones get that dirty look.
Same here. My dad had a small plastic box on his bedroom dresser filled with coins and currency he brought back from the South Pacific in WWII,...
Wonderful coins, and terrific photos too. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe check the inventory at another Home Depot. All of the HDs and Lowe's in my area sell it in quart cans.
Perhaps what you’re not picking up on is that a lot of us are just tired of the endless stream of manufactured collectibles cranked out by the US...
Anyone who would put such a lovely coin into a melt bin should be flogged! :D
Just damage.
Please don't hijack someone else's thread. And welcome to CoinTalk.
The other coins bearing Edward VIII's name — from East Africa and British West Africa — are also holed.
@Tim Cahooni, we have a separate sub-forum for error coin discussions.
Quite possibly. But not in your lifetime.
That is very cool!
@Ulfvinur, we have a separate sub-forum for error coin discussions.
Sorry for your loss, @anniequilts. My suggestion would be to first choose a small number of coins (or coin sets) that you think best represent...
Those are very nice examples, but unfortunately they're common coins that aren't worth much. I'm not a Lincoln cent guy so take this with a few...
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