It would be if this were baseball. :) And I waffled so hard I could claim to be almost completely right. :)
I just duplicated Cascade's post before I actually read it. :)
I honestly can't even comprehend buying a coin so far out of my competence that I had to depend on a TPG to believe it was worth the price. Each...
These things are a bear to grade because of the chances of a poor strike imitating wear. On the bright side, you have detailed stars and both...
I am of the belief that the enormous variety of distractions which modern technology presents will be balanced out by the ease with which the...
Actually, you know, tomorrow's my last day of work for 9 days.... I haven't taken a day off in 18 months aside for the Gettysburg show, and have...
In point of fact, I *would* like to borrow that one at some time for long enough to do an in-depth photographic study with some of the...
Not to worry; now that the clad has been pierced, that Cent won't recognizable any more in ten years.
Mint State 20 Cents are valuable enough to get your pricing from PCGS' auction archive. Who cares what they're "worth?" Care what someone else is...
Because counterfeits don't prove the Mint should stop producing circulated coinage, either. And the same knowledge every collector should have -...
Guaranteed. And Mr. Carr's career will probably hinge on what we do about that.
As a numismatic scholar and collector, if the US Mint disappears tomorrow absolutely nothing will change in my life. I could not possibly care...
I have to first assume PMD because it's difficult to imagine a die failure mode which would look like that. The two locations of the problems...
Oddly enough, the best way to get the "black and white" look uses the same style of lighting; it's the offset from center which creates the...
In almost two decades of very active participation across dozens of fora, I've never seen anything like this place for necro'd threads. It's so...
Frankly, I'm not wasting a stitch of emotion on the issue one way or another. "Passion" is something I reserve for actual circulating issues; all...
Given that grading is an entirely subjective undertaking, you have every right to say. :) We, as the numismatic community writ large including...
PT Barnum is smiling, wherever he is.
A 65, in other words. :P
The worst of it is, these threads are always started by someone who just wants to live "collect what you like" and discuss that interest with...
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