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Probably 1887 VAM 12, also known as "Alligator Eye." It's simply a catchy, and memorable, name for this variety, which has strong doubling on the...
62 or 63. The reverse may look tons better than the obverse, but that's fairly typical, and the obverse has a lot of light marks to go along with...
Type Unc. SLQs are more expensive than type Mercury dimes or Walking Lib. halves because SLQs weren't made in the 1940s.
Mainly a U.S. collector, but I am taking a shining to the pre-1790 British stuff. This just came today. [IMG]
Yes, I use f8-ish for most of my shots. Where the faster f2.8 lens comes in handy is when focusing. Twice the light comes through the viewfinder...
Looks like they're reversed photographs of coins posted on April 1. Oh, and the date was not part of the seated half hub.
Yes. My 105 is an f4 lens.
For tethering a Nikon, I use ControlMyNikon, which is not sold by Nikon. It's about $20-30 and works really well. The D80 body is about 8 years...
Chris, I'll hijack this thread, now that the question about the original coin has been answered, and confuse the issue you bring up a little with...
I've got a flip-over double strike of one of those.
Looks like all corrosion. I don't see the pinched rim you get with encased cents. I also don't think there are encased cents much newer than the...
This is my setup for pretty much everything. When I set up at shows, I used a carbon fiber tripod instead of a Kaiser RS1 copy stand to keep the...
Not an error, nor a formerly encased "lucky penny". Severe environmental damage. Probably what happened is that some of the copper plating was...
Hard to say if it will grade from pictures alone. There are legitimate concerns regarding hairlines and overall whiteness, but static lighting in...
Says here May 2017, so you have even longer to save up. Seven auctions for 650 coins. 32 1/2 boxes of 20 with an estimated value of north of $6...
Zoiks! $150 for a softcover on Abebooks. Fortunately, DLRC has put a lot of their books (or large parts of them) on their website....
The obverse stars, especially the first (lower) two on the left, also are prone to showing striking deficiencies. Look through a bunch of...
From what I've seen, this could be well into 9, count 'em, 9 figures for the entire collection (spanning a few auctions).
Looks fake to me.
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