But the 2 Acts that cover false advertising were originally intended to protect one company from defaming another, such as "our competitor uses...
What Ben mentions about the computerization and the CNC production of dies, simulations of striking and metal flow can be produced to show how new...
Unfortunately there is no law against ignorance, naivety, or stupidity. [/COLOR][/LEFT]
I am curious about the origin and time frame of the coins before inserting into a zip lock bag. Did they all come from the same dealer or...
Borgovan, I think if you look in Google or other search for "work hardening" or "stress hardening" of nickel, it might make more sense. It isn't...
I am not an expert, but I think it is a fake. It is marked 8 reales, which was the value of a silver coin. A gold coin should be marked 8 S for...
Green, it's because we are Gangsta's
We have tried to explain what we thought of the coin's possible origin. If you choose not to accept it, then that is up to you. Where the...
Hmm, can you zap a RFID chip from the outside, and add you own recoded one that would read what you wanted when checked? I hear some are almost...
I am in rather the same place as Green18, although it is the lettering size on the reverse that worries me. They look more like large letters that...
That is a relief! Thought maybe you took up another hobby :) Jim
An less expensive, but a help for mint state coins is the ANA produced DVD on this page. I have it somewhere as a VHS tape, and watched it several...
Sir, that is not a 400X microscope photo, unless Canada made a cent the size of a mintmark. But it is an error. Value close to this listing from...
The 22D is a hard coin to grade from photographs. The strikes vary from extremely strong to pitifully weak. Looking at a photo you mainly see the...
I think it has to do with fighting off CAC basically defining a mid 0.5 grade, judging whether a coin is perhaps ( for example) 64.0, 64.5, 65.0....
On another forum Collector's Universe, there is a person who I understand is one who buys from the mint for resale at a price a certain mint...
The initial slabbing helps to stabilize a selling ( or value) price, as many collectors and investors can not readily grade the borderlines such...
Check out this old thread, especially post # 10,11,and 13 which discusses the diagnostic markers. http://www.cointalk.com/t49198 Jim
Ben, I think you have a point in that "Some coins tend to tone and others don't". Some of that is certainly metallurgy ( the metal of the...
Good points! No, the environmental molecules that would cause toning/corrosion, are not "attracted" to the sacrificial coin ( at least not...
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