Like video on a big-screen TV, but with no controls.
And in a deflationary or flat environment, lots of people will do exactly that. My mom's parents had (for the time) a nice nest-egg at the...
I thought the same thing. Unfortunately, the closer shots make it look like a scratch. :(
I grew up in the 1970s, with "inflation BAD" as the universal assumption -- and when inflation was stubbornly in double digits, it was bad. Since...
Huh. Decades in the hobby, 11+ years here on CoinTalk, and this is the first time this distinction has caught my notice.
I was visiting my dad early in the week, and we went to a Mennonite meat shop in a nearby small town. Their prices had gone up, too, but they were...
PCGS Genuine Brain Damage
Then it's likely that someone else cleaned them before he got them. They show unmistakable signs of cleaning -- smooth, shiny surfaces, coupled...
So, if it's a squared quarter, does that make it a sixteenth?
Now that's entirely the fault of the Cow Union.
How much does anyone want to bet that this thread gets resurrected at least twice by "new members" who "have a coin just like this one" and want...
Dentils are a trainwreck, digits in date are all the wrong shapes, hair is cartoonish. At first I thought someone was scratching the back to see...
That 1919 has some meat on it! What's the reverse look like? Did the blue/gray rock register as metal?
One more quick observation: there's no "neutralizing" acetone. Rinsing with clean acetone will carry away any dissolved materials. Rinsing a coin...
There are big pits on the obverse of the coin. The metal that used to be where those pits are got corroded away. What's left of the coin naturally...
For the coins you pictured, a third party spent a few cents each applying a decal or a layer of plating, and then sold them for multiple dollars...
The only way to reduce a Trade Dollar's value to melt is to obliterate all its detail, most especially the date. As this thread illustrates, even...
My first Morgan was a gift from my own grandfather, probably 50 years ago. It was an 1881-S, too. :) He's been gone since a few years after that,...
Time travel is notoriously hard on the lungs. ;) Thanks for sharing these excellent coins, and excellent writeup!
With unlimited patience, you could eventually get a better example for the same money, or a similar example for less money -- but nobody's...
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