The cladding has already been breached under EN and at bottom left of the Memorial. It won't survive you anyway. Exposing the zinc on a Zlincoln...
Dunno what the top three would be, but I bet one of 'em's a Shield Nickel and another is a 3CN. :)
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Well, until some other place appears that offers over three quarters of a million US coins at once in the same place, we're going to discuss Ebay.
That'll be a first. Do you not see the way the winds are blowing here? Cut your losses, and begone while you have any dignity left whatsoever. I...
Even if the bezel has not damaged the soft gold - unlikely - chances are the treatment associated with wearing it as jewelry has qualified it for...
I failed to mention before my admiration of what you're doing with this.
I would go so far as to call it imperative. Just like coin photography, knowledge of the practice makes you far better able to interpret it.
Not a clue, nor would it matter since we can all represent ourselves as we wish online regardless of physical reality.
Nice. This is the foundation from which you start learning the exceptions to the generality "cleaning isn't acceptable." They are many, and...
Even if that's true and he's a person of good heart and benign intent, what sort of twisted moral sense justifies such attitude? And the "nicer"...
Sometimes - and I'm more guilty of it than most - we get caught up in the semantics rather than the facts. We have to balance the clear need for...
TPG slabs are not airtight. That has been demonstrated time and again; a certain Ebay seller (by his own admission, IIRC) does/has done it to...
I lean towards agreeing with you on this one. The relative regularity of the coverage argues in its' favor, as does the hint of reverse toning,...
Negative. The shape is too irregular - one should expect it to be quite straight (edge of sheet clip) or curved at the same radius as the coin...
Nice. I don't necessarily agree with your approach, but I kinda like what you did here. :)
That "something" is the fact that it's an 1882, I think....
You don't conserve circulated coins. Verdigris and PVC only, or you keep your hands off them. If you conserve, you have to re-wear them into a...
It's worth extra money only to people who know nothing about the concept of "value." Where else can someone believe an administrative error adds...
Your opinion is inconsequential, to numismatics in general and myself in particular, excepting the great service you're doing to add credence to...
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