The Krause catalogs are the standard, basic, references for world coins. For a lot of coins they will provide things like size (pictures are...
pcalvert - First of all I want to thank you for your post, it brought back a lot of fond memories for me. You see, over the years I have...
That '14 is a truly gorgeous coin !
Michael I forgot all about the teletype, at least until you mentioned it :o I never used one, but I can recall seeing them. 'Course the internet...
A couple of things that have not yet been mentioned. When I was a kid stores like JC Penney, Sears, Woolworth's, as well as many other department...
Precisely the the point. But to be more accurate, some use the incorrect terminology. And yes, that includes Margolis & Weinberg. The marks from a...
That die shows something that I have tried to explain a thousand times and few seem to understand, or be willing to believe. But this is a perfect...
Boy I hope so - I haven't learned anything yet today !
I used to have a saying when I was in business - For you , the difficult can be done almost immediately. The impossible, just takes a little...
The why is easy Matt. You do it because you can't help thinking of all the things you can learn ;) And you just can't resist that :D
Well, no. But I did manage to free-climb the tallest of The Three Patriarchs, (the one in the middle) -...
To find out what you want to know you might want to consider joining this club - http://www.jrcs.org/default.html If there is anybody who knows...
Forget the Tarn-X, and the motor oil. As I said, Tarn-X is about as harsh as it gets. And it should never be used on coins. Tarn-X ruins coins....
A lot of people have the idea that natural toning takes a long, long time to occur, many think of it in terms of decades. And yes, depending on...
An adventurer ? LOL ! Not a phrase I have ever heard anyone use to describe me Dave. It was usually something more along the lines of "he's...
It seems kind of obvious to me that since there are plenty of '82 and later pennies out there floating around and still in circulation, and since...
Definitely, that kind is usually called a rim bruise and usually results from the coin be dropped on its edge. More worrisome to me are the...
We tried 8 first - wouldn't budge. I went back in and got 3 more - did the trick. Nahhh, never did. I left the Keys not long after we brought in...
We shall have to agree to disagree. Some of what you have circled are the marks and cracks I refer to, and they are not in the same places IMO....
In that condition, maybe worth a bit over melt I would think, but not much.
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