Looking at his newer photos, and trying to see past the Photoshoppery, I think the toning on these coins looks identical to that offered by other...
I still haven't been pulled to The Dark Side myself, but I applaud what you're doing here!
Go get 'em!
I'm very surprised you think that quarter would grade less than 40. I see what looks like significant luster on the reverse, and the wear at the...
Well, as long as you aren't bidding high enough to encourage people to make new ones from previously-undamaged examples...
Shhh... Another version of my coin and currency legislation
Coins on TV are always overpriced. The sellers have to cover the cost of the coins, plus the cost of producing and airing the television program;...
The fingerprints on your second coin have caused a chemical reaction with the metal. There isn't any way to restore the coin to its original...
Oh, I didn't realize that when I talk about "picking" or "cherry picking" coins from change I was actually supposed to be stealing them, not...
I'll go along with heat damage, although I think we've also seen some actual counterfeit modern Washington quarters (why?) posted here. If you...
It's a shame the employees at the San Francisco mint scratched off all the doubled details before it got to you.
Yup, looks like we got ourselves a distributor. With a 50% feedback rating; couldn't even manage to deliver one of the fake coins to a clueless buyer.
Oh, nice, and a toner to boot!
Bravo. That's the most artful cast I've seen here in weeks, maybe months. Whole schools of fish will be fighting over that one. Me, I'll be off...
Not a lot better, but it gives us something to work with. Here are images, for those who can't or won't open PDF files: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Short answer: yes. As I understand it, when you strike a coin, the metal that flows into the devices -- the profile, the lettering, and so on --...
Getting them in focus is the very first thing you've got to fix. These images aren't motion-blurred (from trying to hold the camera steady),...
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Some of us think the very idea of copper-coated zinc cents is a problem, and there'll come a day (in the lifetime of many folks here) when there...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] $50 on the nose. Nothing to brag about as far as expert cherry-picking skills, just refreshing the BIN listings at the right...
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