Have you read this thread? Seems pretty comprehensive... https://www.cointalk.com/threads/proper-acetone-procedure.193708/ or this one:...
Is it a trick? Are some of them fakes?
Thanks. Don't know why CT turns the pics sideways sometimes...
Can anyone help me identify this poorly treated coin? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The dude reminds of the guy on the obverse of my 10...
In the past few years, I'd only found silver once, and clad a few times more than that. Today, I saw someone leaving the CoinStar with a big...
Thanks! It was pretty early this morning when I took the pictures, but I *think* I flipped them all as if they had "coin alignment" (e.g., U.S....
Oh yeah, I should clarify: Are you looking for errors? Varieties? It's always fun (IMHO) to get a Whitman album (e.g., for Lincoln Cents) and...
I tried caring about VAM's. I really did. It didn't take.
It's what @paddyman98 said. Implied along with that is that you will most likely need to search a LOT of coins; volume is key. Depending on how...
1) Are these Chinese? Edit: they're Japanese. Thanks @gxseries! (I'm just a dumb uni-lingual American...! ;-)) 2) If not, from where are they?...
I do both. I think it's a personality thing for the sets. If you are the type of person that says, "Wow! I can own every (major) type of Jefferson...
@fiddlehead, I just like old coins. ;-) I realize I'm paying a percentage over melt as opposed to buying bullion. That's just me, though.
Not only that, but he found a dollar in a roll of halves. ;-)
Bonus!
@coinMD, just for fun, have you checked to make sure you don't have any Hennings?
I like Peace dollars better, too. But... The Lady Liberty from the Morgan would kick the Peace dollar versions butt to next Tuesday and back...
Yeah, I had to. There is always that little voice in the back of my head that wants to make sure it's not some strange error that I don't know...
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*REALLY BAD* PMD... like "I have a blow torch/beaker of acid and I wonder what it would do to this coin" kind of PMD. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks!
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