They have no idea who they're messing with here. [ATTACH]
I was completely lost in the weeds regarding what was being asked. :)
The view from where I'm currently standing: [ATTACH]
I'll be darned. Socrates was onto something, wasn't he?
Yes. :confused: Too little information available to come to any firm conclusions, even after satisfying my neuroses by "fixing" the image...
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It's a rare week I don't manage 25 hours on numismatics - not all strict "scholarship," I count my time keeping track of the varieties I watch on...
See, that's one of the reasons I care so little about that site. The fact that this expands the knowledge of a known, identified die pairing...
No. You *can* read that barcode - I do it all the time. Have a look at what it says. :)
All yours, you mean. :P
Heck, I'm putting more time on average into numismatics than that, and this is his life's work. :P It would not surprise me if close to double...
Nothing to disagree with here; these are known for weak strikes so what seems to be excessive "wear" on the obverse must be thought through. As is...
I wonder how many man-hours he's put into this thing over the last 60 years.
Well, understand I'm only seeing half of your conversation; you're discussing this with somebody I have on Ignore. If the root subject was a...
You're exactly correct. It might seem picky to have such strict standards for displaying things, but don't forget that numismatics is a pretty...
The Mint doesn't care about "demand." They care about selling coins, and it works against their best interests to mint fewer than they can sell....
No, because we can look at the staple locations and determine the actual orientation from them. It's just a whole_lot_easier for everyone whose...
It's perfectly OK for people to spend 10x the coin's intrinsic value on them if they wish. It's equally OK for me to laugh at them derisively...
Flip the coin on its' horizontal axis, not its' vertical axis. Just as if you wanted to look at it right side up (as you should).
As a generality, you need 90 degrees or better to provoke any real interest, unless rotations are known to be really rare for the issue. The...
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