reminds me vaguely of my 2 Sen peice (Hontonai finished my ID for me I was off by 1 year) http://www.cointalk.com/t219023/
310 in pennies alone, this is not counting the motar/grout (special mix for metal is twice the price of regular) but the major cost increase is...
These seem to be getting popular. I would love to do a floor like this but when it comes to "cost" I've found that a floor of pennies costs a...
This is a case of minor differences in the design from one year to the next. Probably the best example I can give is with the 1878 morgan which...
I know alot of you don't care for culls or damaged coins, but I have always had a likeing for them (doubleing many of my coins with culls so i can...
Sweet the woman added more to the pot told me she also ordered a PR69 type 1 in pcgs JFK label slab (also 81-s)
on a side note recent auctions have sold this at PR70 for 1500 (ngc) and 1700+(pcgs) in just the last few months so more then a few hundred :D
Ok maybe calling a couple hundred "big bucks" is a misnomer but even 50-70 is big when I know the woman spent less then $5.00 on it :D As for the...
Well I tossed this one up for a reason, My girl got it for me (early xmas) she couldn't resist the shiny :D after examining several times and...
I just to lazy to get out the cam again just to shoot an IH (bout the only 96 i got i think... darn now i gotta check..........)
Mirror polish and yes probably DCAM
as I've mentioned she's in charge of my "foreign" coin collection. She decided after my talking about the "animal" threads here that I needed my...
will take and post more pics if needed but think i finaly got the lighting right lol [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] even these photos...
Beware copper is addictive :D very nice coins :D
Exactly!!! One of my favorite x-mas give away was a "giving tree" one of the 1st years they did this, you got a "star" from the tree with the...
On the same token, I always make a point of donating a few toys to tft and also the local food pantry which has it's own similar local program. In...
Ok here it is after less then 5 minutes in near boiling water. (used a muslin teabag rather then the forceps and "hung" it) After a few seconds...
thanks tom while it may very well be some verdigris, I am sure it is wax and not just "crud" the entire coin is coated with the wax. I have...
Hmm sounds like a good idea if i do go the toothpick route (which is what it is looking like at this point) But I wait see if anyone else has an...
Got my "blurry" pic 1833 large cent in today and it is a truely beautiful coin (to me anyway lol) However the pic hid a rather strange issue. One...
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