The Large/Small Date proportion for Denver-minted Cents is more like 50/50 anyway, unlike the rarer Philadelphia Small Date. So neither have extra...
I actually thought about this for an hour or two before replying. I bet it passes muster at total weight, but I wouldn't want to read too much...
I know, right? Outrage comes to me too easily to waste effort manufacturing it over something like this. :)
I am both cognizant of such acronyms and hateful of the older man's bladder, but - unfortunately - the latter came to me far more easily than the...
Aside GSC and Centsles, that is.
Keep in mind, aside the reasons of stagnating inventory and the inconvenience and extra work of relisting the coin, this is also one of the ways...
Oddly enough (until you think about it), coins in acid are usually eaten away completely evenly, and essentially become...
Why am I not surprised?
I kinda think so. :) Similar reasons, I think - it can only acquire the color if the alloy cake mix wasn't completely stirred. :)
It's only been a couple months (and a year :) ) since we discussed why. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cleaning-coins-with-ammonia.260487/
PCGS has a single Business Strike example of what I *think* you're calling "Medium Relief," the production trial pieces designated Pattern J-2020....
Don't forget, to PCGS you're there for them, not vice versa.
You won't touch acetone but you'll use ammonia on a coin? Wow.
There's a *big* difference between "relief" and strike quality. Relief is simply how you design the die, and strike quality is a function of how...
It should be mentioned that an auction bid is a legally-binding contract under US law. On Ebay, a decent seller will let you back out of it - I...
Um, he's a CAC-affiliated dealer; my nicest Woody Lincoln (no, you haven't seen it yet :) ) came from him and if you want a Proof Shield Nickel...
Since 1982, US Cents have been copper-plated zinc; what you're seeing is exposed zinc from the cladding being shredded. Zine being the reactive...
I'm more worried about what they'd think of the stuff inside the UN and first A in AMERICA, hints that it might have been cleaned. Very much...
By the same token, hijacking threads - even though it doesn't seem to be frowned upon here - is almost universally-reviled elsewhere on the...
The leaf hanging below the top line of 900 and FINE, and the arrowhead extending past the right edge of the 2 in 420, are indicators of the Type 2...
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