Yeah I'm a little confused about the thread title too. George V and VI coins all had it (until 1948) as far as I know. And the most beautiful...
I read about important discoveries found by re-analyzing objects in museum "basements". I never read about anything new learned from something in...
What's up with that half dollar almost splitting in half? Looks like someone started spooning it. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a silver coin...
1905 [ATTACH] Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in for a second time, and his only full term as President The second year of the Russo-Japanese War...
To me it's kind of an odd article. No mention of the LD/SD varieties and why the date changed, and yet they go into detail about the design...
Of course your definition of old versus modern is pretty random if the cutoff is 1900. Morgans, Barbers, IHC, Liberty head gold are all both old...
I don't know if the Canada 1947 Maple Leaf - "privy mark" after the date - counts as a "type" but it was only one year. I have all the...
I have a few of them as well. This seems to be a fairly common design. [ATTACH]
The first thing I noticed is the font of the 9s is wrong.
Here is mine, and a size comparison I did years ago, thinking it might be a foreign blank planchet. I was told on another forum that it's some...
They look like punch outs to me.
What is "NMM"? No mint mark? If so, I wish people would stop calling them this. It's just a Philadelphia minted coin and it's a given that none of...
VG Details - Damage. "Nice" is subjective, but this is the toughest transition variety to find ("thick ribbon" reverse). [ATTACH]
I've been collecting a series within a series. For example the reverse on these two is not the same design type. It's an odd take on the series...
Looks like yours is probably this one. https://www.seateddimevarieties.com/cf_date/1842_101page.htm Mine sat in my collection for 40 years before...
When I first saw this thread I thought - how is that MS61? The thought I had is that they were tougher on it because it's a commemorative, similar...
http://www.maddieclashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/40523322.jpg [ATTACH]
Correct. The article never says or implies that acetone removes mint luster. What the author did say is "As you can see in the photos, the cleaned...
I've posted this one a couple times already, came from grandparents around 1972, true contemporary. I think probably this one...
I've only ever used acetone, and then only a couple times, but isn't anything more aggressive you do to it going to remove or mess up the toning?
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