That's close enough I guess. The point I wanted folks to be aware of is that ultrasonic cleaning can damage coins. It's like it is with anything...
That's not finning, it's common name is railroad rim. A railroad rim is caused and occurs when there is a partial collar error....
Yeah, it works. But Mike, don't ya think you might wanna mention to folks what can happen to coins if they are in an ultrasonic cleaner too long ?
Finning is fairly common and very well known. The explanation you listed is accurate.
It's a fact. The acid etches them into the metal. Even so, in most cases coin dip will remove them even after they have become etched into the...
Well, it IS that time of year :D
Yup, there's all those opportunities. AND - there's just as many opportunities for the marks on the rim to have been caused after strike, like...
No, I'm not assuming any such thing. I am merely pointing out that the rim experiences 3 independent pressure incidents, each of which would and...
The coin has luster, but I'm reasonably certain the quality of luster was a good bit higher at an earlier point in its life. Look at the remains...
No, I don't, for a couple of reasons. For one thing strike pressure at the rims is not low, in reality strike pressure at the rims is high. To...
Read this - https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1961-franklin-50c-dcam.342693/#post-3607571 - and this -...
It's pretty easy, it's because they aren't all scanned and checked by robots. Quality control is spot checking done by humans. In other words,...
Once they get to wherever the mint sent them, the giant bags ( they call them ballistic bags if I'm not mistaken) are opened and the coins are...
Here's the thing, literally everything on a coin, or not on it if it's supposed to be there and isn't, SHOULD count when grading the coin. And...
Oh, the answer is it could be anywhere from 15 minutes to - well, almost never. (And yes Jeff I said almost :)) Hundreds of thousands of coins...
Steps 4 and 5 answers your question about how coins are distributed. I underlined the pertinent parts. Mint transports the coins to the Federal...
He can't, because that would be breaking the rules.
There he goes, he's so old he's confusing things again :rolleyes: I didn't have fancy machines like that ! [ATTACH]
Glad you brought that up because you saved me the trouble of doing it. :) Which is what I was going to do to show Randy the answer to his...
Pretty sure we both know that's not gonna happen Chris. But what this "resurrected thread", as you call it, may do is help who knows how many of...
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