Put in in your pocket whenever you are thinking about purchasing a coin without a good knowledge of grading or alterations, damage, tooling,...
Well, I figured this thread would get too personal, and it has. I hope the 2 can take it on their own now to settle it through ebay as we are...
I believe the mint used bags then, and the banks could roll them for their customers if they wished. But my local banks never used a stamp for the...
Where did you get it? Looks like a setup. The ends can be opened, better coins kept in exchange for lesser ( with toners on end) and rewrapped ....
Elemental sulfur in a petroleum base. like vaseline. Easily detectable by experienced collectors and sniffer machines :) To use on freshly...
Vonnieagles, there is a large learning curve for errors and varieties. All of us sometimes run into a coin that we are unsure of. The best thing...
No more guesses until he starts a new thread in the contest area.
Since the obverse and reverse dies hit at same time, that is not possible. It would be like clapping with 1 hand. The planchette ( blank) that...
It is a corroded and environmentally damaged coin. It doesn't weigh by your own admission what a cent planchette would indicate. It looks like a...
JRAL, I deleted your duplicate thread on the same coin. Rules say only 1 per coin/subject. Otherwise it could be considered spamming.
And I closed it with mine.
Tommy, look at your last photo, you can some die erosion someplace on every letter in UNITED. And on the N , you can see similar die erosion on...
Reminds one of other members past and present.
Ok, no one should call another member a troll~ report it and let the moderators decide. I have let it go one as it is coming from both sides....
Welcome to the forum Boston 38. This is most likely from a chem lab experiment commonly done in high schools or beginning college chem....
:) Things I could tell you :)
Ah well , the educator stills says to correct. Diamond is hydrophobic, water doesn't adhere to it, but will bead on the surface, so diamonds don't...
Although it might make some purists scream, the silver coins such as the half dime can be 'dipped" with EZest carefully to remove the dark...
Perhaps it is time to wrap your posting up for the evening. Giving damaging information to people who may not see the bad humor is not good for...
As above. The lettering and numbers on this coin are raised, so the die area for them must be incluse ( indented ). So that the die can strike the...
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