Yeah, it was one of Russ' Morgans at the 2013 show. I was sitting there running a couple $G's worth of dSLR/macro lens hotness, a T2i and Canon...
That one is PCGS MS66+.
I consider the risk of fingerprints more manageable than the chance of dropping a coin due to the loss of dexterity from gloves, and will not be...
I saw you shoot a coin with your magic Canon P&S. You walked up, casually faced the camera down and nailed a Morgan toner in a huge room with a...
I'm not comfortable with grading from the NGC Cert images, and haven't looked up the auction, but I'm pretty comfortable with that price for the...
"I'd collect chocolate coins, too, if it weren't for that one problem...."
I'll PM you when it arrives and let you see the first work. I got 1/8" rather than 5/32 with distortion in mind, and 60/40 T/R, the most...
Yeah, a pretty square hit could do something like that. Hmmm.
To add one little (imperative) detail, you have to block any_other_light from hitting the coin aside that which the glass reflects onto it. That...
Not quite sure what I'm looking at there, yet. Have to assume PMD of some sort until more cogitation happens. :) Thing is, any indentations in the...
Judging from the ones I saw at Heritage - this is kind of a guess - the crack at 1:00 appeared fairly soon, but it was deteriorating quickly by...
Not-quite-terminal N-4; below the date turns into a pretty spectacular full cud at the very end. Check this one out:...
Apparently not. :) Grading nice frosty Morgans like that is a crapshoot - you can never really tell how serious the stuff on the cheek is. I...
There's a cool little Chrome Extension called "EXIF Viewer" which I employ. It shows the EXIF data for an image on mouseover, if it's still...
I like it for DMPL but would stop at MS64. IMO the brown-ish stuff is a planchet irregularity, as struck, or NGC wouldn't have slabbed it. Any...
How many marks are there on this Lincoln? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Or this one? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Or this one? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Or this one?...
The winning bidder has won only one auction in the last 27 he bid on over the last month, and only bid on the same seller for 2 coins (26...
Consider also the Blakesley Effect, which happens during the upsetting process where the rim on the far side of the clip fails to completely form...
For the record, from a technical standpoint I feel that both faces of the OP coin are as good as or better than the PCGS coin I posted.
Trouble is, even "our" opinion - not like we'd agree :) - doesn't really have a bearing on "their" opinion. Heck, they don't agree with...
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