I'm actually reading a book on this issue - 'Numismatic Forgery' Personally, I find it a little terrifying, but the information is brilliant,...
beautiful toning! that was quite a find you have there.
Welcome to the forum! It seems like you had a pretty sour experience with your collection. I hope it doesn't color your view, but from his...
I think the marketing department in the US mint has really taken off in the last five years or so. Now they have all the westward journey stuff,...
well, you can keep them - that way everytime something like that happens again - you can say 'If I had a nickel for every time.... oh wait... I...
Oh thank you, thank you everyone. I was quite pleased. You know, I particularly like the fact that this one is a slightly off center strike....
Ok, technically it isn't my birthday until monday - but since I'm going to be out of town on a company audit all next week, my wife and kids...
nah. to be honest, GD will be along and he will be able to give you much more information than I can - I just don't know that much about them......
the second piece looks like a cob issue of 8 reales, with the spanish cross... hard to tell from the picture, and I don't collect them but it...
Exactly. I look at the pieces I have and think 'they look uncirculated, but are they worth the catalog value?' - surely not. Particularly...
that's true. I guess they would have to be significantly softer than the dies or they would have trouble in the minting process. I'd be willing...
You know, I find these coins hard to grade... maybe because they are made from steel, and I don't know how resistant steel is to general...
basically, yeah. An estate can be anything from a small group to an entire garage sale in one. Is it a gimmick - absolutely. There's a lot of...
I would throw in the silica just to be on the safe side. It won't hurt the situation!
sounds fun! anyone interested in such a thing, please send me a PM. Also, give me some thoughts about how you'd like to see it set up.
a lot of it, I imagine, comes from seeing a LOT of genuine examples and a lot of experience. The more coins you can see, the better. Pretty...
maybe someone should start one.... :p I have extra domain space available.
To add to this thread, I would also recommend that people glance through and get familiar with some of the commonly identifiable attributes to...
even with chinese, you actually have traditional and contemporary charactors. Traditional characters are much more detailed, and difficult to...
I hardly speek inglush gud.
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