All toning is the same - it's a silver sulphide reaction creating a thin interference film. Where it happened unintentionally, smoothly and/or...
Just because Provident hired a hack doesn't mean a real sculptor couldn't have done a good job. Wonder if the mint still has the original plaster...
Just my 10c but that's why it was STUPID to make this out of gold. 1oz silver would have struck up gorgeously and shown the beauty of the design,...
The problem is that a lot of the material online is of questionable quality. So you need to vet the site, beyond 'free'. Certainly there are some...
Because I refuse to pay $14/day for garbage WiFi at a show - so I need an offline resource.
Local coin club? Numista - I don't know how well that really works.
Chris nailed it. Redbook first then grading standards. Nothing has the breadth of general information - a little bit about EVERYTHING that the...
A long time ago, child, before you were born, information was distributed on pieces of paper marked in ink. Paper was manufactured by cutting...
A sucker for a good magazine actually. Since I'm no longer in the PNW I let my membership in OlyCC lapse. But I miss them...
Sadly Yahoo Answers is only slightly better a 'source' than dart throwing...
ANA TNA FtWCC - when I join next month NETCC - probably their audition is next Thursday CCCC - maybe - their meetings conflict with PMI SLCC CONECA NI
Rick Beale of 900fine. Although I've never bought one from him, he's never stopped trying to educate and amaze me with his EACs.
They were not, but I think they were the 1st to do copper-nickel clad (which is a much harder and less ductile material than silver).
As I've said, the ignore feature is the best part of these conversations!
Sometimes all that is necessary for the 2nd adopter is to know something is feasible. There is also the benefits of not making all the mistakes....
I think a big part of it goes back to the creation of the 401(k) and the possibility that rare coins we're going to be included as permitted...
The basic problem is the 'ugly' MS64 vs. the 'nice' MS63, with beauty always in the eye of the beholder (e.g. toned coins). Which one do you...
The bubble envelope is a good idea. You definitely want to make sure that the package is thick enough to be non machinable. The automated postage...
There is a place AND value from having choices. If nothing else it shows us the future - or have people forgotten when the knock was "XYZ does...
I have several ANACS slabbed wooden nickels - both blue and yellow labels (but from the dates, all were slabbed under Driving Force LLC - current...
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