I'm offended by that statement. :P
My bad. Not used to thinking on that scale. :) Point stands about getting them into a container of the right diameter to force the coin into a...
No offense, but that's the least important thing. With real-time real-world sales results available at the speed of light on the Internet, prices...
Not to mention PETA would probably get involved.
Absolutely. Optimism is a great virtue for a numismatist. You'll be OK. :) This is a perfect illustration of the truth that understanding how...
EF45-ish, even factoring the New Orleans strike, because some of the details normally lost in a weak strike (cotton bolls, talons, large lower...
Your best bet for acetone soak containers are larger shotglasses, which hold more than 1.5oz while still being small enough to force the coin to...
It is an absolute fallacy to believe that numismatic "investing" is a deterministic system. Rather, at any point - and many points - during the...
I'm in agreement with your opinion.
Yes. The majority of dipped coins show no evidence that even the best numismatist can cite as "proof," except the fact that a coin that old...
Well, you gotta fill the silence with something. :P
Well, when someone posts an image widely available and widely used as a "reference image" on the Internet, under circumstances indicating they...
....they procreate. :) [ATTACH] So I snagged a lot of lenses appropriate to our needs as bellows coin photographers from Ebay. All but one are...
For the record, both are in recent PCGS MS65+ holders.
We'll await your images, but I see a number of discrepancies between this coin and the single known obverse used for the "CURENCY" variety which...
I think it was in a fire. Literal ROFL. :)
Heritage images are ~2000px in diameter and sharply-focused. Yeah, you can grade from them. :) Let's look at this from another direction. Would...
Guess I don't need to supply an attribution, then. :) I like it at VF30.
VAM-17, for the record. Liberty comments on the mote in others' eyes while ignoring the beam in hers. :) I fear the incomplete removal of prior...
You'd be hard-pressed to find one who cared less about that detail than I. :)
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