Yet we've still got three simultaneous threads going about them. :)
OK, with the new photos you have me thinking. They display the displacement reflectivity I was referring to, when your first set of images didn't...
When you can go to one single venue where the equivalent of 11 full rolls are available for sale at any one time, what sort of percentage...
I've made that point too, along the way. Supply is plainly not in question for the 1909-S VDB; value is completely demand-driven for this one....
It's possible, if they were all high grade. However, there are currently well over 500 of them on Ebay alone....demand is a wonderful thing for...
These images are enough for me. I see no reflection/shadow from cracks; there are no cracks. If anything is displaced, it will reflect or block light.
Yeah, let's get this out of Hommer's thread and into its' own. :) I'll be disappearing to work in a few, and will revisit tonight.
I'm hoping - and planning - that the Internet will be as much advantage as disadvantage, exposing far more potential new collectors than ever...
Denver coin, then, I think, VAM-1V and maybe that upper pitting is worth calling out in the VAMworld listing. Can you get a thread up about it,...
With the light coming from the "east-southeast" as in the first image (that's why the lower right of the shield shows as a bright line), if this...
To the slab collectors, for their Registry anatomical comparisons. :)
There are already presales on Ebay. I predict this issue will still be yet another example of people proving that financial prudence can be...
Interesting coin, lots of planchet issues indicated with the almost-"woody" grain to it. I'm with you in suspecting that the obverse is likely a...
I can't say that I see even that. This appears, to me, to be a stain or - if it has actual z-axis thickness - a thicker liquid such as epoxy which...
....and that's kind of why this thread becomes one of regret. Kevin Flynn's Lincoln Cent Matte Proofs is sufficiently definitive to forestall any...
Behind a paywall maybe? Or just not yet online?
I can't argue any of that. It just (to me) cheapens what they do, and what they do is kinda vital to our hobby. They're a centralized authority...
What sort of percentage increase is that on their margin? What extra value is added? How does it increase the quality of their work? Does it make...
Your lighting has the beneficial effect of really calling out the actual marks on the coin, making a technical evaluation easy. The obverse is...
They just haven't discovered yet that, when the rubber actually meets the road, they do have their biases. In the meantime, I'll introduce them to...
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