If I keep on reading your posts I'm gonna need a dishwasher-safe keyboard, that's for sure. :P
Acetone is only capable of reacting with copper in the presence of bright light and water, and even that's not proven science - to date, all the...
Nah, gotta get up too early in the morning. @messydesk seems to know when I'm in need of a nasal wash, though - this is not the first time he's...
You owe me a keyboard. And half a bottle of Gatorade. :P
I got out of there just in time. :)
Well, then we're wrong - ALL of us - and have been wrong for a few hundred years. Our bad.
I greatly sympathize, but nothing they did was illegal under any law and the coins in question aren't "fake." Only the description of value is....
I wouldn't be surprised if it pulled $20k at auction.
I don't know if I call it "MS65;" the images are indicative of a maybe-circulated coin. It'd have to be at the very top of 65 to be worth the...
Koinsolv is n-Propyl Bromide (1-Bromopropane), an industrial degreaser/solvent popular for its' lack of reactivity, which is encouraging as these...
Well, that's a score. :) Even at FR2 (my considered grade; obverse is too nice for P01) it's probably still a Details coin due to the reverse....
Slam dunk at 66 and a pretty full strike from older dies; it's flattened a bit at the edges and recession is visible in places but the bison's...
We, the numismatic community writ large, define "error" as one class of die anomaly, certain departures from "nominal." Whether or not the Mint...
If the surfaces were original it'd take you $35-40k to own it in AU grade.
It is, unfortunately, so harshly brushed that device details have been blurred. It'd be tough to actually authenticate it in this condition.
That's plausible. Just imagine - it's still a five-figure coin....
If the date location does't give it away instantly, you're in the wrong line of work. :)
It's walking distance for me, and I go through it a few times a year. There are excellent places to just sit and muse about numismatics. :) And...
I am completely out of my element here. To me, it's kind of like trying to objectively quantify insanity; simply don't compute. :)
Sheer volume of mintage, I think. If the percentage of affected strikes is the same as other issues, that's a bazillion Lincoln greasers. :)
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