CRI has relevance to coin photography in the case of colorful coins; more monochromatic examples don't present enough of a color challenge to...
There is, to me, sufficient material evidence out in the wild to convince a reasonable collector to prefer NGC over PCGS today. The problem to...
Here's the thing: When a coin tones "naturally," it tends to tone somewhat evenly in a geographical sense. It'll avoid devices in many cases, but...
The problem with this stuff is it leads you to want to waste your time creating cool wallpapers. :)
Was that fairly recently acquired from a rather large group of similar coins from an Ebay seller? If so, I have another of them. :) If PCGS...
Because their customers, their cash flow, don't want their coins to grade low. They're walking a fine line.
That's a list where "one of these things is not like the other." Acetone is a very different animal than a concoction of cleaning chemicals and acids.
Quoted for truth. The whole point of Proofs (and PL/DMPL's) is that their fields are more perfectly flat than the microscopic irregularities...
I don't think it's "whizzed" per se but it's unlikely anything but a brush wielded manually would end up looking like this. Hairlines are easy to...
Cool. Ain't nothing centered on the '84-P. :) And nothing wrong with appreciating the little things about coins. If only the biggest fish were...
Think of it - from one angle; we're going a lot of different ways with the project - as an incubator workspace for numismatic researchers, a place...
Um, the one without the S is the valuable one....
Nice racket as long as you're not the original owner. :)
This leads to the question of why anyone bothers to pay $10 for it, if you can have the images for free.
I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the coin I see here shows the classic parallel hairlines of cleaning by brush, which greatly lowers...
Considering TrueView is a paid service, I would think they'd make accessing them for free pretty difficult. No doubt in my mind they shoot every...
How can you go wrong for $10? They have weak switches - I've already had to replace one - but that's $1.50 at Lowe's and 30 seconds' work.
You got the wrong coin, then. It says "Not One Cent" right on it. :D
You haven't lost much by getting on his Ignore list. I think the areas you highlighted on those pics are smudges on the slab; they don't show...
PCGS has been building that database for 25 years now. I've no doubt they could go live with computer grading tomorrow....if not for the pesky...
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