If you didn't want to do everything the way the ancients did, Larson's book is still a primary guide. He shows how to cast, using modern materials...
Hi Roni, from your blog above, you might have some interesting hobbies yourself to tell us about in the introduction subforum. There is an...
Here are a couple of references. The first will give a good start IMO. But the best resource I know is Charles M. Larson's book Numismatic...
The amount of rotation would be main factor. If significant, it might be worth the current $50 PCGS charges to authenticate and grade a mint...
What is too bad, is that the coin is suffering from it's association with its owner. It is (was) a Slabbed 3L AU58 ( whether it is actually...
It is probably part need or greed, challenge of skills, ego to see if it would pass, or a warped sense of art or rebellion. I hate to admit it,...
Might be from electrotype dies, but the reason I had doubts about die struck , was that there was a lot of abrasive work ( you can see some that...
No, I didn't want to try any solvents or anything since I had to give it back, even afraid to use acetone on it. I tried to buy it as a specimen,...
Actually the 3 of 1943 was funky looking any how. Not like the normal expected. Here is a real 1943 D cent. [IMG] The 3 in the counterfeit is...
I doubt it can be done without causing further damage to the coin. It is impossible to tell just from the term "silver solder" as it comes for...
My friend who runs the local coin,silver and gold exchange called to have me look at some gemstones for advice and showed me this coin which was...
I think I would reply again to his original email saying he would replace it, and say "I know how things can slip through the cracks in our busy...
If a person could tell a raw AU58 from a MS-63 about 95% of the time, they could do well making money with coins. But that is something that may...
The .97 means that PCGS says it is environmentally damaged. The seller debates that. However, even though he says he thinks it might get a clear...
The price isn't bad if you can deal with the bad scratch. RLM more or less covered the fact that after fees, etc., a resell would probably not go...
Steve, that is similar to fortune telling. All of us wish we knew, but then we would just drive up the prices of that issue in a self profiling...
From a Souvenir set probably glued to a cardboard piece identifying each. Appears to have been cast.
States may differ, but in most that have estate taxes/fees, the law says the bank boxes will be sealed if anyone on the box list dies until the...
More than likely this is a result of a popular experiment in middle and high school labs. It appears in several lab manuals and you can see both...
Look at the tail of this "3" and also how close the "3" is to the "4". Yours has neither of these features. [IMG] They take a non-magnetic 1948...
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