This. Or similar environmental damage.
Thanks for the ID, @JeffC. I could've come up with that, but it would've taken me a little while. As to the "blisters", they're some sort of...
Since all of these coins are going off under the PCGS Secure Plus tier, they will all receive TrueView images, which I look forward to seeing....
Yeah, who knows. Myself, I wondered about the area near Liberty's eyebrow. It's easy to imagine something that looks like faint lettering there,...
I don't see anything there that's distracting enough to warrant dipping, and I'd be leery of attempting it, myself. Only the single dark spot...
Neato.
I was thinking about what you said about Maundy issues. Proof versus prooflike is not something I'm qualified to speculate on, here. I don't see...
Hm. I don't see anything there I would've interpreted as "graffiti". Sure, a scratch or two, but the marks all look random to me?
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Hey, it is a Dahlonega coin. I have only owned one ever, in 45 years of collecting, and that was the only time I ever spent four figures on a...
The crescent on the reverse was an homage to the moon goddess Diana. ;)
Makes sense. WW2-era German-occupied Netherlands, maybe? That would explain the zinc, though I suppose it's not out of the question that the...
This is a reasonable concern and not tinfoil-hat kookiness. Personally, I'm happy to play along, and think it's all harmless fun. I think the...
Here’s just a bump to put this active contest at the top, and to push down one of the recently closed ones.
Of course. I should have recognized by the “dimples’ that that one was a folder, not a bookshelf album. But yeah, Littleton sells nice albums...
@Oldhoopster’s mystery envelope is mailed. Only one or two of the spider eggs had hatched by the time I handed the addressed envelope to...
Is that your Type album? I like the Littleton green.
A stone cold CircCam, on a type where one sees them less often.
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