I'm almost positive this is a cast fake. The portrait doesn't look right at all. The patina is not consistent with the wear. I think I've seen one...
EYE! Nice pics! Thanks You're killin my IE with the left-right scroll thingy. Here's the fix: Post LINKS to your images instead of embedding...
scanners suck ...for coins ...and paragraphs help :devil:
Possibly oiled, but still a nice coin. Few hits in the left obv field, MS65BN
Yea, that one was easy. BRING ON THOSE 1920's. LOLOL
I can see it, I bet it's killer in hand! It's a sweet coin and a half.
65+ for luster, so 66 I guess.
Very nice 50-S! I think they held it back for the weakly struck areas.
I think I said it before, but I'll say it again... Watch out for those on ebay. Many of them have had the coins replaced with clad coins.
Yep, that's the consensus I believe. I've seen far too many 09 and 10 biz strikes that have those sandblasted, frosty surfaces and pretty square...
One of the most difficult coins ever for me to capture. Very sandblasted, matte-like surfaces with a silvery, frosty cartwheel luster. It took me...
Even more amazing, he slips an extra $100 bill in with them to the TPG's so they grade them as NT. :D :D :D ;)
Both are very nice, I don't see FS though. MS-66 for the pair.
I just never understood why he paints and highlights all his coins like that. :D :D :D
Should they? It will happen eventually, just like they did with silver. Once they think they have enough zincolns out there to meet circulation...
OH YEA! My 5-gal bucket just keeps going up baby! :D
Garage juice like all the others. I'm sure it's sulfur in oil or detergent. If anyone wants to send me some, I'll do an analysis in the lab on it....
Here's talking about the garage brew crap on ebay:...
You worry too much. LOL Other coin toner products were probably not developed by chemists with years of experience in metalworking. When I...
VERDI-GONE is no longer made because VERDI-CARE™ is a lot better. It's completely different from VG, there's nothing in common chemically. You...
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