Coming from you, I have to stop and carefully consider your points, so I will. You are a careful and accurate numismatic scholar and if we...
Nice pics, especially considering the grade the coin forces us to consider. 66 in my book, a + wouldn't floor me. Can't quite get to 67 for it.
All you're doing is proving my points. You don't know how to light a coin to bring out whatever color is there - "bright lights" don't do it - and...
I would actually love to do the ANA Seminar some day. I'm pretty much self-taught, and undoubtedly have bad habits I'd like to see corrected.
The only difference is, he employed lighting capable of bringing out the coin's color and you did not. If you physically looked at it under the...
If it were that easy to become "expert," we wouldn't value so much the decades of experience people like Doug bring to the table. All the ANA...
Problematic, depending on the depth of the cut. Much of the rest of the coin would have to wear that deep also as part of the process, leaving you...
Sodium hypochlorite turns silver toning from a long slow process through bunches of different colors into a "dangit I want it black NOW!" kind of...
I wandered the Internet for a while looking for original research - or reporting on research - on copper toning, and came up empty handed. There...
Well, I'm not exactly broken up over the whole thing.
There's a reason why I haven't chimed in here, even though I was sometimes downright hostile to the man (assuming) when I had him "face to face,"...
I'm doing my level best to change that particular truism.
Not enough to be either an "authority" or even sure either way, but enough to know this much color on a non-Proof, circulated Wheatie is at best...
That was nicely put. :)
Not many muggers grok 1909-S IHC's. Everybody understands gold. :)
This, I think, to a great extent. Given the market's breathless lust for 70's, any way a dealer can acquire one will easily repay a bunch of...
Not by comparison to Doug's gold piece. :)
I've yet to meet a holder of any composition which would win an argument with my Dremel. And even if it did, I have a Roto-Zip.
Older auction results are identical to "published" price lists in terms of relevance, which is to say "not really." It's also important to factor...
It's a nice-looking coin in that image, but it's been cleaned and is no longer original. The only way to return it to being able to appeal...
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