It's been my experience (I've been teaching coin photography at another forum for almost 10 years) that iPhones have by far the best coin imaging...
An added mint mark will show a seam. It's trivial these days to bring enough photographic magnification to bear to sharply image it.
You've looked at too many slabs. I was trying to be polite. :) He's right, though. If you can see a mark in a Heritage photo, it's not a 70. By...
That's why you find sacrificial Cents in the storage arrangements of smart numismatists. Every copper roof in the country argues in favor.
A chat is a direct competitor to the Forum itself, taking traffic which could otherwise be in thread form and benefiting the whole membership...
Well, the mint mark is in the Die #1 lateral position, in the #4 vertical position, and the serifs are not parallel. If these images accurately...
The Peace Dollars are all 1923's, right? The center one in the first group looks like it may be a 1928, which would be worth a bit even in this...
Throw a sacrifical Red copper - something common - in the bag.
There are issues for which the overwhelming majority of graded examples are 70's. It's high time people started realizing that a 70 isn't...
Ziplocks are food-safe. They contain no PVC plasticizers, being polypropylene.
You know copper turns orange when you dip it, right? Thiourea ruins copper on contact.
Maybe. Unfortunately, there is no better answer than that. The slab won't make a difference, but your level of care could. Copper cannot be...
Chances are we'll never know precisely what did it; all we know is it's not possible for that to have happened as part of the minting process.
This coin was struck by a very old and worn die pair. This is characterized by lettering "drawing" towards the edges as seen here; that metal has...
CAC would probably like nothing more than to become unneccessary. It has to be a pretty big hassle for them to add this effort to their primary...
Imagine how the dealers felt, trying to trade untrustworthy dogs in slabs between them. They do commerce sight-unseen, and not being able to trust...
Just put them in the board and wait 40 years.
I dunno. I've lost one in 16 years, a near-melt 1921 Morgan. The plural of anecdote will never be data, though, and one wonders why the TPG's...
I dunno; I'm not a TPG. They're the ones who do this, not me. So how much luster do you expect on a toned XF coin?
When you asked about this elsewhere, a strong plurality of experienced people (myself included) considered it AU58. :) If it's Mint State - could...
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