Yeh, coating with mercury is an age-old method of improving a coin's look. Problem is mercury is VERY toxic. And it can be absorbed through the...
Quite a few rim dings. Possibility it could come back as a DETAILS coin.
Nice sharp strike. About as good as mine which is an PF-66. Mine shows flow lines out towards the rim. I don't know how to differentiate between...
Sort of like RD copper coins slowly turn to RB under most conditions.
@ddddd, thanks. Obviously it adds no premium to the coin. It's just a mildly interesting bit of NGC history.
I'm doing a sanity check on my coin inventory and ran across an odd labeling. I have a 1955 Roosevelt Dime in an NGC slab graded MS-66 W. What...
Yeh, I sent in an 1836 Capped Bust Quarter/Reduced Size (1831-1838) with obvious graffiti. It's a Browning 5 variety with an R-6+ rarity rating. I...
I've been working on my US Type Set for 15-20 years. It is based on the NGC 1792-1964 Registry Type Set. I'm DON'T include the 1792 Half Disme nor...
It appears to have been scanned rather than photographed.
With no apparent toning around the devices IMO it's been cleaned, most likely by being dipped.
A problem with albums is that you have to go along with their definition of a type set. EXAMPLE: All albums that I'm aware of have only two...
And most banks will remove it from circulation.
I said "dark gray" as in close to black. Light backgrounds reflect too much light and overpower the light coming from the coin resulting in loss...
When posting pics about Full Steps make sure the step area is lit from the south, not the north.
And take your images with a non-reflective black or dark gray background. The white background is causing some problems.
Start by posting in here VERY GOOD images of both sides of your coins. It should be easy for many of us to say "yes" or "no". At that point if the...
As an ex-Gov't working I'm inclined to believe the theory.
My question is, how does an FE get clashed SL half!? And part 2, how do you know it's a half and not another value? The 1858 looks like it was...
Okay, thanks. I don't do Facebook neither ... nor any of the other social sites. I spend too much time at topical sites (like this one).
I don't even know what IG is.
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