Sure does by my collecting criterium. That's one of the nice things about coin collecting, you can make you own rules about what you want to...
Error? Variety? I am personally not concerned about what it's called. One criterium for my collection is a coin be "a business strike that made it...
IMO this is an example of overkill in looking for errors/varieties. For the hardcore nickel specialist, that's a keeper. But for the average...
Check out the comments at the end (after AG-3) of the ANA Guide. States that this year/mintmark combo is notoriously weakly struck. That's the...
Looks like a nasty die scratch to me. Like someone dropped a pointed or bladed tool on the die. BTW, are those die cracks up around the shield?
Interesting. I made up my mind before I saw all the opinions. Nice strong "WE" but a bit of weakness on the horizontal shield lines (strike or...
All Washington quarters. 1932-D (XF/AU) 1932-S (AU/MS) 1935-D (MS-63/-64)
So much for not paying attention. I dropped 3 coins in the mail to ANACS in Austin, TX, this morning. This afternoon I found out they had just...
I collect circulating coinage, e.g., business strikes. These definitely don't fit that category, so, no, I don't collect them. Nor do I collect...
Buy stock in the coin album manufacturers.
My first choice would be to pass on the coin. The rim ding is not going to heal itself It's a coin with a (minor) problem, and it will always be....
Your going to have to be more specific. What do you mean by "coin designators"?
More than one dealer and advanced collector I know have essentially said, I rather have an AU-55 or -58 than an MS-60 or -61 or -62. An...
I don't see the XF detail the rest of you are. I think it would have a tough time making VF. And with the edge cuts I'd save bullion value only....
I basically do the same thing except I start at 600 dpi. IMO 1200 dpi is overkill for the reasons stated above. Also the images eat up huge...
I'm not going to give an opinion. But I am going to make a suggestion. Large images tend to make coins look worse than they really are. The...
Can't be me "brown-nosing". I don't even know who the "big guns" are around here. You ask a question, I supply my answer assuming I feel...
Appears to be LOTS of little marks in the fields. I think AU-55.
Nothing bought specifically for Xmas. Latest items purchased were one roll each of Idaho "P" and "D" quarters. I crack them open and have a few...
Just read it in today's Washington Post. DC and the US Territories have gotten approval for their "state" quarters to be issued in 2009. That's 6...
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