Actually, he's a very nice guy who haunts flea markets and then comes hear to learn about the odd-ball stuff he finds and hopefully turn a...
MS62 retail value...
Conder's NGC1 (black insert, gold foil) was used for two months, Sep/Oct 1987. The plain white label/white insert - NGC2 and NGC2.1 - followed it...
RED FLAG... "I was looking on a retail sight [sic] at the "random" sight unseen prices for a MS64" That means you are looking at a sample...
The Fall Portland show is the bigger one, the Spring Tukwila show is only about 40% the size (sort of like the ANA shows). But it's a good bunch....
It's a counterpunch. Worth 5 cents.
The mint doesn't reclaim them. The high speed sorter/counters that Brinks, Loomis, et al use are tuned to accept both copper and copper-plated...
Also severe PIDT as SuperDave was alluding to. Progressive Indirect Die Transfer - fairly common in 52s. If I remember the #s offhand (Flynn and...
The "End of the Trail" set (look for it @ pcgs) represented a *numismatic* accomplishment: Some of the pieces were so worn that it took major...
That's why you want the sock(s).
No, it wouldn't work - the coins would be pushed to the outside by centrifugal force and held there. You would need to pulse the salad spinner,...
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I think what it THINKS it is selling is 37 - how many do you want... but the listing is a stinking pile of ....
Hope you washed out the bottles, else I can see the ad "Monster Xanax Toner - not only is it georgeous, but you'll feel better too"
The really interesting thing is that everything you find on the web has almost exactly the same story... dating to 2005 (I can't chase the...
All toning is the same - it's a silver sulphide reaction creating a thin interference film. Where it happened unintentionally, smoothly and/or...
Just because Provident hired a hack doesn't mean a real sculptor couldn't have done a good job. Wonder if the mint still has the original plaster...
Just my 10c but that's why it was STUPID to make this out of gold. 1oz silver would have struck up gorgeously and shown the beauty of the design,...
The problem is that a lot of the material online is of questionable quality. So you need to vet the site, beyond 'free'. Certainly there are some...
Because I refuse to pay $14/day for garbage WiFi at a show - so I need an offline resource.
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