It's still the same tour. It's an excellent place to contemplate a numismatic question, in an inspiring environment, without being pestered. :)
That one, too. :)
Of course. There's always the possibility of an unknown die state, or a new die for the other face. 1878-P VAM-80 has the "killer" pickups on...
I can't say I'm in complete agreement. It's always wise to question a century-old coin which is in the very earliest stages of toning, like the...
Never forget, we don't have anywhere near all the die pairings yet. Somebody who managed 10 Discoveries in one calendar year ought to know that....
I have it as V10 - look inside the 8's.
Not the first I've seen of this from this issue.
Acetone is capable of forming a harmful reaction with copper in conjunction with bright sunlight and high humidity/water present, which might be a...
Heck, I don't trust half of my own images regarding surface preservation. :)
I don't see any of that, because the images aren't good enough to trust what I see of the surfaces.
Every raw coin I buy gets an acetone soak. Every. Single. One. I do not buy stuff with "crud" in the devices - dirt or accumulation that *any*...
You and I are in agreement, especially after seeing the GC images. I don't think there a chance that those surfaces are original; indeed, I'm...
Really wish for higher-resolution images on this one. :) My eyes are immediately drawn to the flatness of the hand on the obverse. This is a...
Damage to the coin, not to the die.
8TF, the images aren't definitive but VAM-2, I think. http://www.vamworld.com/1878-P+VAM-2
Wasn't any more monolithic than it is today; there were "good" bars and....less than good bars. At the latter, two bits would buy two beers but...
I like the cut of your jib. :)
No opinion is possible without images, because the number of ways to fake something like this vastly outnumbers the ways for it to have happened...
Wait, it's not April 1. :P
This was worth the long read. :)
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