Thank you; that helped refine some of my thinking.
OK, we can have that debate. Cuds include the rim. That's final, it's been final for longer than you or I have been alive, and when we're dead...
If I end up going to Hell when I die, it'll be because of something I did to someone who misspelled something. :)
The plasticizers which are the culprit chemical with PVC are intended to soften the plastic into a flexible form. If you have no flex, you have no...
This isn't the "purist definition." It's the definition. So the first thing you want them to find is wrong information? I'm sorry, this is a...
That 55mm (the Micro-Nikkor 55/2.8?) is a terrific sharp lens; an extension tube or reversing it would make it a great coin lens. As it is, it's...
Bull. Words have definitions. These definitions predate you. The fact that you or others choose not to use these terms with their appropriate...
Dropped letters are plainly at one end of the viscosity range when evaluating Mint Crud. My question is, is there a point in the viscosity range...
The posters who were called out have failed to recognize the OP's posting style over the last year, or have decided they don't like it. Therefore,...
Heh. Ray is very much like BadThad in one sense - both driven to apply their technical specialties in a beneficial manner to numismatics by their...
Don't you hate it when that happens?
Keep in mind, the fact that the phenomenon has a name doesn't necessarily make it a collectible error. This is simply a manifestation of extreme...
This is plainly a very_old die pair, which is the cause of the blending of the L and 3 (although the 3 looks maybe like grease?). You can also see...
Nice pics. :) You have to be realistic when evaluating the chances of the coin being one thing or another. We know science-class (and idle-hands)...
It would be far from the first time that such a redesign was implemented to improve coin quality; the 1921 Peace Dollar is a classic example. The...
Nothing really alarming about this coin, just the way the light is playing off of it.
Ray got me started down this road, too; I owe everything I know about bellows shooting to him. He didn't invent the technique - Van Allen and...
Acetone is a good "cleaning" prep for Verdi-Care as well. They do two different things.
When metal flows like liquid, something that is partly liquid will flow even more easily.
I wonder how a grease fill can eliminate the center of a letter without affecting the top or bottom. Curious.
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