That's a difference in the wrong direction. 1964 90% coins weigh 12.5g (+/- 0.259g), 40% coins weigh 11.5g (+/- 0.4g), and clad coins weigh 11.34g...
That looks like a normal clad edge to me. When the blank is punched out of the strip, the top cladding layer gets dragged down across the copper...
Emphasis on "away" -- something combines with the metal and takes it away from its original position on the coin. And once that happens, it can't...
Unless, of course, he cut the supervisor(s) in on the deal.
That's what cardboard albums do. The sulfur and/or acid in the paper reacts with the parts of the coins that are exposed to it. The hotter and...
No, iodine from the pen reacts with starch in wood-based paper, which includes most printer paper. Currency paper doesn't have that (made from...
If you're trying to save for a car, spending on coins is going in the wrong direction. You're about as likely to "hit the jackpot" buying coins...
That was essentially what I was going to say. Whatever note it was, if any, it fooled both me and the person or machine that got it next.
That's the kind of mistake I would expect to not see on a counterfeit that comes from a color printer. There's no reason for one color to be...
Hmm. I don't see any evidence whatsoever of green on the coin.
And since you put it that way, I'd take this coin over either piece of a top-pop example that's been cut in half!
I originally shot it under a close daylight lamp; this is corrected to an explicit daylight setting. It should be pretty accurate, with the usual...
Probably not; let me try again with explicit color-temperature correction.
Wonder if anybody passed over that as "polished" before it got slabbed?
Returning them gives the seller another chance to pass them off. I had this happen a few months ago with a counterfeit ASE. In the past, eBay...
Ah, so you're a flipper, not a stacker, then.
See, this is how I can tell when I'm in the Ancients forum. Over in Bullion, you never see people telling you not to go... well, you know.
Pretty sure that even the silver I bought at its 2011 peak has held its value better than your 2011 frozen catfish. ;)
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Thanks, everyone. I'm starting to feel a bit more confident in calling genuine/fake, estimating grade, and looking for damage. I'll be sure to...
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