As long as it's just mud & crud from the ground, freeze, thaw, heat & freeze it a few times in a small glass of water. No detergent, no handling,...
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That's the work of @messydesk, who is....kinda good at shooting coins. Anyone can learn to capture sharp images, but for some there's more to a...
What Jeff said, plus - later after the matter is settled one way or another - it will possibly be a service for you to "out" this seller so none...
This is only my gut reaction while looking at the coin on my phone, but I'll take "Pathetic Imitations" for $200, Alex.
I like it. Been looking hard at Texas Commems lately.
So far. :P
My last coin purchase of 2016 won't arrive until next year - it's on layaway - so you'll have to suffer. :P You'll suffer even more once I get the...
No. Any further opinion from me would be edited anyway, so I won't post it. :rage:
He shoots, he scores!
I think it was your choice of verbiage; we're of a generation which doesn't consider the use of the term "girls" to refer to adult women as...
This is the coin considered FS-101: [ATTACH] Note the absolutely plain doubling (it's actually a Triple) of especially the upper obverse...
Backwards lettering? Yup, PMD. One already-struck coin being impressed onto another under Mint press pressure (the only way to get backwards...
It's not so much the size of the gouge that's relevant - although that's obviously important - as it is the judgement of the TPG as to what caused...
How do you circulate something like that? They gonna take it over the counter at 7-11?
Careful with that. I just did something similar, and ended up spending 5% of my take-home pay for the whole year on one coin....
Am I correct in believing Ancients used hand-carved dies? More recent dies employed a Master Die (a negative just like the production die),...
I concur. If the rest of the coin is deserving of a 65, I don't believe the one mark will hold it back. If the coin is borderline at the proposed...
I dunno if we should conclusively judge based on one image. Yes, I can plainly see that there's something going on there, but the only part that...
Of course you are. 42 is the answer to everything.
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