If you can post some pictures of your actual coin we might be able to help with identifying the mint where it was made. The info mentioned above...
Yes, a perfect example, of this - If you couple your quote directly above, with your initial post in this thread, you come up with what I am...
When I grade a coin I consider eye appeal too, but even when a coin has great eye appeal you still can't ignore the other grading criteria - which...
Well, not really. I absolutely agree with the concept, but the reality is it isn't so. The TPGs almost always bump the grade of a coin with...
The one I use is - it's chocolate and vanilla.
And do you know why they pay that premium ? Because most coins do not end up toning those pretty colors. Instead they end up toning brown, black,...
Let me give you some examples of rarity scales. As you can see, they are all for different things. The Sheldon scale was developed to be used...
Rarity scales are developed after years of meticulous and in depth research, people don't just sit down and make them up. For example, the Jasek...
And neither have I, nor did I ever say I had. What I said was that I had experimented with them, and every other type of light I could think of,...
No, it does a better job than one - (and it's not a "good fluorescent light", it's a fluorescent light with a special type of bulb) - because it...
Howdy Peggy - You can use this to find dealers in your area - https://www.money.org/find-a-dealer
You know what the problem is with trying to define rare ? This thread is a perfect example of it - "everybody" (used loosely) wants to use their...
Yes, no "coin" albums, of any kind, ever. As for your other question, what's more important to you - what you "like", or protecting the coins as...
Or - find out that it's not copper at all, but merely copper colored on the surface.
Yes, but the problem with that is that there is cleaning, and there is harsh cleaning. Cleaning is perfectly fine and does not harm the coin....
I suspect that your "jeweler's fluorescent light" does what it does, because it has a special bulb in it. In other words, not a regular...
Gentlemen - anymore of the personal nonsense and the thread will be locked, the offenders will be told to go sit in the corner for a while, and...
What he said ! Coin albums are probably the worst thing ever invented for coins, and have been directly and indirectly responsible for outright...
And yours of it shocks me just as much !
I've played that game, many, many, many times. I've experimented with just about every kind of light I could think of, even including candle light...
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