I was aware of the jewelry "white gold" when I posted this. You will have to get the people who don't like these coins to change their terminology.
Yes, pretty much. Under a 10X glass, you could see hanging off the surface.
Here are the two pieces with photos cropped and enhanced to show off the issues with these things more clearly. I hope you don't mind, @William M....
That is always the danger, but if you don't try to teach people what to look for, you can't combat the problem.
Some the coins that the purists like range from almost ugly to totally ugly. When I was looking for an 1838-C $5 gold, a dealer told me he had the...
The thing we don’t have today is the frequent execution of heads of state. Just look at a single year in Rome, 69 AD. Two emperors were murdered,...
By today’s standards the conduct of Julius Caesar and many other men whom historians view as “great” is abhorrent. The trouble is you have look at...
I have often joked that everytime I bid or even take an interest in something in a Heritage Auction that the prices go crazy. I too thought that...
A couple of days ago, someone asked me to show an example of "white gold." Here is the best I could do using photographs as opposed to showing you...
There one thing about the coins, in year or so, the medal detector guys won't be able to find them. Like people it is "dust to dust."
This is medal, not a token, but it is one of the largest items I have. This is the medal in copper that the U.S. Congress awarded to Zachary...
Nobody cared about rotated dies until a few years ago. It's not unusual on the early U.S. coinage. I wish I had the 1804 dime that goes with that...
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