I'm not 100% confident that those plastic bags are 100% inert, but they're likely better than anything else the coin would land on instead. Good...
Ah, just found my way back to this thread after someone revived another "restoring silver dates" thread. I somehow missed the resolution from the...
Kurt is proud to be a bad kitty. Although he'd take umbrage at having it phrased in quite that way.
As I understand it, "work hardening" makes the metal that flows into the die's recesses more resistant to etching than the rest of the surface....
I couldn't disagree more, because no two collectors will necessarily weight the various components of quality (strike quality, marks, wear,...
32 cents in modern coins is worth more than a worn Wheat cent. Yeah, I'm more interested in hearing about non-standard finds, too. In fact, if I...
It's not often one's presented with a straight line like that... nah. :angelic:
I think your sarcasm detector is overdue for service. ;)
And us that a typographical error?
Huh. I've been known to buy alcohol by the gallon to recover from work... :banghead:
Not wear, but corrosion (environmental damage). It's still worth ten cents if the self-checkout will accept it. :) Welcome to CoinTalk!
No information at all to offer here, but I'll be very interested to read whatever anyone else can provide.
I'm stealing that one.
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But "normal circulation" thoroughly begs the question. I mean, most coins these days get rolled for distribution, which means each coin has a...
It looks to me like both sets of photos show the denticles fading in and out as you go around the rim of the coin. That's a dead giveaway for a fake.
My momma, rest her soul, didn't really teach me to be gracious to people making unsupported accusations against others, especially when those...
So instead we're supposed to presume the worst of the TPGs and impugn their motives, presuming the worst, while defending... random CoinTalk...
Sorry, I'm having some trouble keeping up here. Which "race" is it that speaks English as a second language, again?
Again, I think it was both the Kennedy design change and the composition change that knocked out the half. If either of those hadn't happened, I...
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