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Minor delamination with retained portion.
Any competent jeweler or electronics repair shop should be able to easily remove that solder. Too bad about the hairlines and polishing from...
I'm pretty sure the last edition of B&D was published in the 70's. I have an early edition from the 1950's that I picked up more as a novelty than...
The images they show are of genuine coins and slabs - they've stolen the images from real auctions. If you win the con's Ebay sale, you'll get...
No idea about the piece, but the PL is cool ;)
Dang, that is gorgeous.
Everyone involved in this thread is invited to read this thread, consider it wisely, and take it to heart:...
The Bowers Book and the ANA manual both cover the same ground - you really don't need to buy both of them. I think the Bowers book has better...
I don't see anything immediately alarming about this coin, but Indian $2.50s are the most commonly counterfeited series ever made. See here for...
I use the term "harshly cleaned" whenever the surfaces have been seriously disturbed by the cleaning. That could be hairlines from steel wool,...
Yes, that coin should have luster just like any other struck coin. It has 3 things going against it, however: It has been circulated. It has...
Thanks for the advice! I once considered collecting all of the French colonies, as you mention Algeria and Tunisia, but I've decided to focus on...
That's a pretty sweet collection! How rare or hard to find are these, especially in high quality like you have? Are there any real...
Yes, with that much stretching, I would certainly have expected some serious plating splits. And, that bowl is deep! Seriously cool error.
Not much of the obverse left on that one. Very cool!
It is really cool that the laminating piece here is still attached. These are the best kinds of lamination errors.
There are clearly at least 3. What I'm trying to figure out is if the 4th one is another clip, or if that is some serious bit of Blakesly given...
It would create strikethrough errors, yes, but their appearance would be different. They would be easily identified by the weight. A lamination...
Wow, that is a fantastic DDO. Extremely wide separation. On a US coin, that would be front page numismatic news. And, cool story about your...
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