VC would not be very effective in this application. It's far too mild.
A two sided, roller-mark woody, nice find! This not an alloy mixing error but the result of dirty press rollers imbedding junk into the coin...
I too have seen dealers absolutely refuse any kind of memorial cents brought in by customers. Mine will check for the 72/72 and that's it. Many...
GOOD LUCK! It's that thinking that has kept collectors and dealers away. They almost universally believe they can just buy a roll or a mint set...
When they can physically see something on the coin, they can direct the IR beam to that spot. At that level of surface contamination (where you...
ATR will GREATLY attenuate the signal to the detector in FTIR diminishing the sensitivity....usually by orders of magnitude. With lab ATR, we use...
Spend some time on the PCGS website and learn. To be worth the cost of submitting, generally, memorial cents must be of VERY high grade....
I want to add....I literally saw hundreds of 1931-S's in that time period. Nobody hoarded 31-D's - they are a much tougher coin IMO.
HAHAHA....thanks bro. leeg, vance and many others make my coins look like grade school stuff though.
31D's are very hard to find in high grade. I searched shows and shops for some 20 years to find this one.[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
LOL! Well next to Ray and many others my photos suck.
This is one of my favorite coins in my collection, it was VERY difficult to find for me since 99.99% of these suck when you do find one. This coin...
The 82 series is the most interesting of the memorial generation. 7 coins were issued and over the decades I have developed my own theories as to...
The easiest way to tell is by the distance from the rim. It's VERY obvious, the 2 is almost touching the rim on the large date. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, mintage in the billions with 99+% MS-60 to 65. Unless you collect Zincolns, you'll never understand the extreme difficulty of finding...
I've been wondering if collectors will ever come around. The old "they made billions" so high grade coins are everywhere folklore-fallacy. Perhaps...
Just another ignorant seller, almost all mint state 1916's look like proofs to the untrained eye because the master hub was "fixed and enhanced".
This is what 90+% of the 83's look like: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Finding a nice 1983 without bubbles is VERY difficult: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1983 and 1984 were also horrible for gas bubbles....here's a PL I found: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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