Thisthisthisthisthis. Color is only a hindrance to the actual information you're trying to convey, unless you're Ray and doing it in 3-D .gif...
VAM-2A. :)
I think the Canon T5 or SL1 are "sweet spots' for price/capability these days, although either would be difficult to find for $200. That price...
You can spend $200 on one of Ray's custom modified microscope stands if you wish. Otherwise a $20 tripod will do perfectly; it will just be more...
I'm not sure how much good the L840 would be for coins. There appears to be little manual control possible, so you'll be at the mercy of what the...
No, of course not. But despite all the bad things we (truthfully) say about them, the TPG's do get it right most of the time. And to go with that,...
I would strongly suspect that you're on the Contacts list of someone who got their email compromised, and that address was sold to some concern...
If I'm seeing the one mint mark detail correctly, the zinc is showing through with the "doubling." This is a form of the "split plating" which...
Just shows that P.T. Barnum was among America's wisest philosophers.
I have to admit a personal fascination with them myself. :)
That's a poststrike delamination. The lettering on the delaminated part would be much sharper if it had been struck directly by the die, what...
At 150 coins/minute that's 36,000 strikes.
You can call a cud anything you wish. Won't change what a cud is. Language is used precisely in numismatics, and when someone refuses to use the...
Because nothing whatsoever regarding Because nothing whatsoever regarding die or strike is involved.
I don't like the strokes of the digits - especially the 1 and 0 - in the date. The MM location seems a tad low for 1-A, but that might be the...
When you know you have a solid core of a few hundred people who can consistently both agree with each other and (in the vast majority of...
I have a feeling the lamination distorted the coin and how it was handled, leading to the uneven finish. The reverse looks as if it could be a...
I visualize Woodies more in the category of "toners" than "errors." Fascinating coins, and a current active interest. :)
Yeah, I can see your situation. It would probably be a safe assumption that in most years Proofs will outnumber Business Strikes with Prooflike...
I use a similar setup - dSLR, bellows, any one of a vast number of lenses. Enormously versatile, fantastic quality, cheap, really complex to learn...
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