If the medal was darkly toned before it was cleaned the toning itself could have etched or hazed the surface. In that case it is hopeless.
"MAY I look at those?" :)
No image, its been pulled.
I will be there, both days.
That's why I said the first edition hardbound was better. Pictures were better than in the later softbound editions. They were also on a black...
At the KY state show this past weekend and dealer there had five boxes of books from collections he had purchased. There were three copies of...
He probably didn't intend to. The thief probably broke into the hotel room of a guy he knew was a coin dealer or collector and grabbed a case of...
Yes Philadelphia did make the dies for the branch mints but at that time the dates were still being added to the individual dies by hand with a...
Bill if that is true then it brings up another question. Where did an incuse T to create a raised T come from? There are no incuse T's on the...
NGC has a special double thickness slab they developed for slabbing very thick ancient coins. It might work well for this.
Those, believe it or not, are die polish marks. Very COARSE die polish marks.
But they were also one of the first modern commemoratives to have a low total mintage of 500,000 applied to them. Several of the other earlier...
No they would be going back and forth from the register to the customer and then back from the customer to the register, and th number needed to...
The real question is Do you know anyone who is going to attend the sale, or at least the lot viewing, that can look at it for you?
Never criticize the dealer selling coin books he's bought when he he buys out a collection. I lucked out at the Kentucky State show this past...
And to think back in February people were paying eight to ten dollar a roll for those things. We kept saying "Just wait, they will start showing...
Why break them up. Just replace the coins with slightly lower quality pieces and you have your 70's and your "limited set" too.
Would seem to me that if Paypal actually did that there would just be a lot of powersellers who would continue selling but drop their Powerseller...
Old holder possibly? Because that coin in the auction is definitely what they would call a G-6 for a key date today. Possibly if you sent yours...
An acetone bath wouldn't hurt them, but I seriously doubt it would help them any either. Doesn't look like dirt, looks like tarnish and acetone...
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