Most of the time just once. But now and then they'd strike it twice or even 3 times. You can usually tell just by looking at the coin. If it was...
Well, it's definitely been dipped. But other than that I don't see anything particularly odd looking.
First off, I freely admit that I know next to nothing about ancients, but I do know a few things about medieval. And from everything I've ever...
Is there any way to identify clipped coins? There's 2 basic ways to do it. One - look at the edges. It's pretty easy to tell the difference...
No, I was referring to something else.
I'm probably gonna regret this :rolleyes: Sorry, but it was not a troll and not a bot either. It was simply a post made by somebody who didn't...
A hint - check your Redbook :)
I'm sorry Robin but yes, it was. What I said in my first post is exactly what was done to that coin.
The "to test its purity" part of that is a bit of a misstatement. It is misleading at best and would of course prompt a question like the one...
Hmmm - could be I just don't wanna ruin the reputation that I worked so long and hard to establish :)
Someone deliberately did that to the coin with tools. They cut the rim and pushed the pieces inwards.
You mean even more than PCGS has already done all by themselves ?
Don't worry Mike. She's just wanting to make sure that at your age - you can still remember things. So she enlists the aid of friends to help out...
Well, it kinda depends on what you want I guess. I say that because given the very lenient grading of the TPGs in today's world there's no telling...
Nahhhh - I aint gonna do it :muted:
Oh don't worry Mike. Your wife always makes sure "I'm awakened" when somebody is needed to keep an eye on you. :D
I'm sorry but it is true. Any scratch, any hairline, they all displace metal. And that displaced metal doesn't just magically disappear, it has to...
Not necessarily always true. Post strike scratches and hairlines create both raised lines and incuse lines. And of course so do die polish lines....
It's very easy. As I have said before about that very picture - they are not all die polish lines. Some of those lines are the result of dies...
No it isn't, it is done by a machine. And the same basic method has been used since the 1800's. The machines of today are more modern of course...
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