Yes. I'm going to put a numismatic research site online.
It characterizes as "advanced technique requiring care that side effects do not themselves affect the coin, while offering a powerful tool for...
O-111, I think? That'd make it Small Date, Small Letters. I'm going to call it a nice AU55, but would be prepared to believe it Mint State in-hand...
It's not $120 worth of nice. Nothing aside the nature of some of the marks argues against Mint State, but those marks hold the ceiling to probably...
Here: [ATTACH] Red line is the large lamination, a strip running across the planchet. It peters in and out, as they do. A lamination doesn't...
I feel this one is task-specific enough to stand. You tell me; I know you to contemplate these things rather thoroughly:...
There's a subtle but important difference included here. "OK" in this context is old-school, satisfying stricter standards than market grading has...
I'm already at the point where one tweak and a few seconds are enough to nail it on the second shot with 97% of coinage; you quickly learn the...
It's all in lighting technique. I don't know what apparatus Bob shoots, although it's obviously top-end and the difference isn't there. What he...
It's not only possible, it's easy. All you have to do is pretend that the people you're talking to can't see the expression on your face or your...
Yeah, there's not a one of these which isn't deserving of the grade. I suspect the necessary credit goes to the person choosing the coins rather...
In the real world, unfortunately, it doesn't quite work that way. Folks wish to interact on the Internet, to ask questions and receive...
2005 10 Yuan, commemorative of the 600th anniversary of the first of Zheng He's historic sailing voyages. In 1405 he put to sea to project China's...
The only caveat is, we pretty much have to say all of the words every time the subject comes up. Takes diligence. :)
Yeah, acetone's extreme volatility makes it the ideal final rinse. I couldn't imagine putting a coin away without a final acetone rinse. Of...
Here is where you step into one of the next levels of numismatics. Chances are all 5 quarters came from different dies - even at the best...
Wow. I had this all figured out until I looked closer. :cyclops: Now, is it something that got added postmint and is now peeling off? There are...
O_O For those reading, let me reemphasize this is not the norm. :P Gamebird98, your experience is closer to the reality. People attend auctions...
'Tis that. Another consideration is that VAM-11 is known in PL and DMPL, which helps this coin's case, but that also means there will be "near-"...
If that one mark on the cheek is more a graze than a scratch, you could be looking at a technical 64 or 65 there having been downgraded for ugly....
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