Neither am I. I just have fairly good ideas about what it isn't.
Agreed. It didn't happen at the Mint. Not that I'm sure what_did happen, but grease won't do that.
Um, that's why they call grading "subjective." If you're not factoring eye appeal into your grading, you're alone in that.
Pandering is fine if this is a plan to penetrate a market that consitutes 20% of the Earth's population.
Infrastructure dedicated to that coin size. The size of the coin won't change because of special Proof cladding on some examples.
And I'm thinking there are darn near as many members of Coin Talk as total stamp collectors in the country. Slight difference in scale. :)
I know him very well from other fora. If he's being nasty it's in reaction to being attacked. He doesn't start fights on other fora. Only Coin...
Because a Dime's worth of copper was too big a coin. That remained true until 1965. Now we are culturally acclimated to certain coin sizes, we...
It's artificial. Natural toning - under the conditions normally accepted as "natural" in numismatics - does not propagate in such blotchy...
Well, don't take my opinions as Gospel. I'm not one for "conventional wisdom," and feel like there is complacency in numismatics - a willingness...
Really? Honestly, they're not my style so I don't know the toner market at all well. I would have thought it a bit subtle for any major premium....
All we have to do is come up with as many divisions as coins, and everyone will have Pop 1's. Of course, that means price differences between...
I dunno - it kind of looks like the die subsided near the rim. You can see the curvature in IGWT, and the coin is decidedly anomalous at the...
There are some (raises hand) who would take a Woodie before a normal coin. They seem a lot less frequent in the more recent decades (before the...
I actually averted my eyes involuntarily; it's painfully bright. Not only do I not like it, I'm going to actively try not to look at them.
Because that's what it takes to create a die. That polishing is part of the production process, and it's the reason for Prooflike fields.
If you think it through for a bit, you'll realize that the abolition of cash would be the best thing that ever happened to collecting. That makes...
These are at the point where educated collectors take a close look at the coin before adding a premium. So many have been cracked for that elusive...
What can the FCC do about a website registered and physically domained in another country? Ask the Chinese to step in? Heh.
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