yes, quarter is definitely an industrial dryer coin, caught between the spinning inner tub and the stationary outer drum on edge and spinning for...
have you tried wearing your glasses while using the loupe?
Tj Shreves revived it last night with a question on the same topic.
the mint sets in 2005-2010 were "satin finish", that was it. If you wanted "business strikes" you had to get them from circulation ect. as the...
No idea what the website is for really. They seem to have their business model nailed down, just not sure why they need a website for it.
is that Cream of Chicken? jeesh, how do you cream a chicken?????
this is tougher than it looks at face value. You'd need to bend it back past it's straight point, in the exact same spot, trying to "flatten it"...
Another way to look at this. Had YOU gone into his shop, bought a gold coin in a slab, took it home, cracked it out then returned and told him...
He can put a stop payment on the check or recall the funds. And I'm sure that is what the op meant when he said the guy "talked to my bank". Guy...
I think it's a fire coin.
It's been plated probably with platinum. Very common to find them in circulation millions of sets were made by 3rd parties in gold or platinum...
He had opportunity to open and check them and do whatever he wanted to before completing the purchase. He will likely have you charged with...
Let me try to clarify your concern. When a coin is struck, brand new, fresh from the mint it's considered "BU". Or uncirculated or "Mint State"....
Let's start with: "is this a S mintmark 1922 peace dollar?" in the last photo of the reverse, I definitely see some sort of a mint mark. the...
No idea what your grading company is, but there is a repunched mint mark, and there is a doubled die obverse. I don't know of any company...
I like this idea. I wouldn't use it for daily, just for emergency when the power is out, much like my battery powered air pumps for my fish tanks...
"distilled water -> acetone-> xylene" is a progression or method. you may be satisfied with distilled water results, or it may not take off the...
What Suarez in that thread is talking about is sweat (salt, proteins, urea, and ammonia) will absolutely damage the surface of a coin and says...
I agree with his assessment, except for the mint state one that came with the uncirculated mint set MS68 or MS69 seem to be the average while MS...
Ft. Lauderdale area. my A/C runs 24/7 also, except when it's not running due to a power outage, and over the decades, there's been a couple long...
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