I guess any broader strike would tend to produce gaps in the zinc coating on the coin faces, and those would become targets for corrosion --...
Sounds like an opening for someone to start assigning "grades" higher than 70. :troll: Maybe one day scanning XRF machines will be cheap and...
Stocks are ON SALE. If you buy anything when the price is high and sell it when the price is low, you aren't going to make out very well. If...
People must think I'm a fun guy, because they keep me in the dark and feed me... well, you know.
Well, duh. Someone disagreed with Kurt. ;)
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That was a worthwhile (re-)read, but I wish we'd gotten an official result on the coin's authenticity.
I think I remember a thread or two like that, and I might even have posted on it, but I guess that doesn't narrow things down much at all. :oops:
Let's see if this works better... :) P T M O S U N A J F S X A P R I I T P O T S S U O N U J O H N I Z I A G I E L R V N V S E D L L E P M Y R P...
In my sophomore year, Virginia Tech was still the informal name for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, but it was taking over....
I taped this off sometime in 1982. Nine years to go, I guess. [ATTACH]
I'm guessing the coin guy in question can justify spending $30 for an acid test kit but not $20K for an XRF. :)
Is this a variety? Numismedia FMV shows it at $35. Were you maybe looking at the row for 1901-S, or the column for F12? Or am I the one who's...
I love it!
Since you said it's a 2022 dime, I assume the date's still visible. Is it clear, or faint? What about the other lettering on the obverse (heads...
I haven't heard much about fakes being struck from stainless steel, just softer iron. Have you checked whether it's magnetic?
Thanks for trolling a five-and-a-half-year-old thread, I guess.
Thanks for posting that, @physics-fan3.14. I'd been trying to read the name as "Casta-ing machine", i.e. a machine that you use to "casta" a coin....
Those field lines definitely look raised in these photos, but if they're die-polishing lines, someone must've polished the die with the bottom of...
I got a quadruplicate post yesterday. I hit the button once, and then again when nothing happened (I thought I'd missed it). If I'd hit the button...
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