And on a side note, that I'm sure some of the posters here will be upset I'm saying this: And the other reason to clean a coin is to be able to...
LOL! Seems like it would be more fitting if it was issued by Kenya instead of Liberia. Liberia has no 'claims' to his residency.
Actually, that thought is kind of behind why we have presidents (dead ones) on our coins now. All the presidents that have been chosen are...
Yeah,there is a reason. We don't honor living presidents because that would put them in the same class as rulers of countries and we have been...
I have a brand new ULTRASONIC cleaner with specialized high grade gunk remover: I figure if it can get stuff off brass cartridges without damaging...
marks from a counting machine possibly. PMD, not a mint error.
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Probably not too much. It is kind of neat, if you like that, and there might be someone who is collecting those for some reason, but IMO you would...
on this web page: http://www.lincolncentresource.com/smalldates/1982.html there is a instruction how to create your own "scale" for copper and...
that's good to know. I was simply talking about recognizing a small date from a large date the large dates have a 2 that looks like this:...
the 2's in 1982 are shaped differently for the large and small dates
Welcome to CT! I would say that someone with nothing better to do with their time did some work on this dime. We call it PMD (post mint damage).
Yes! I went and put in 6 coins for grading, and 3 of them are finds I made while roll searching. My 1999 WAM cent, an Atypical Die Clash 1984 dime...
That's a great review for any author. I don't collect japanese or chinese coins, but for those that do, I'm glad you have a fine resource.
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What an sidiot (if a bidder is an idiot = bidiot, then a seller that is an idiot has to be a sidiot). LOL -- his loss, guess he just doesn't...
The only time cleaning is acceptable is when it's not cleaning, but conservation. Most people aren't qualified to do conservation because they...
I was thinking about this this morning and may have found a way for me to keep track of how the Sheldon scale works. So, basically the scale is...
apology accepted.
Always a joker. Guess you must really hate SBA's.
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