Ugh, that hurts. Sure hope for the seller's sake that he insured the shipment -- I can't imagine that it would be hard to make a successful claim...
Wouldn't surprise me at this point. Not sure how much I'm ready to buy at that point, but I'm pretty much not in the mood to sell right at the moment.
Apparently Craquelure is the term I was looking for. This still doesn't look quite like that, though. It's strange that there are some channels...
Depends a bit on whether it's petroleum-based, I guess.
Looks like the cracks you get with something like drying clay. It's as though the cent got coated with something that dried and cracked, then got...
I think Chris just mentioned the "Edge View" holder as part of the timeline -- there was a brief time when NGC noted "white" or "toned" on...
That is interesting, but if it were a planchet problem, the channels wouldn't look the same in the fields and on the devices. Definitely damage,...
Sounds like we need a "Glass Half Full/Glass Half Empty" forum. ;)
And that's why eBay's listing volume and sales are plummeting as people vote with their feet. No, wait -- that's apparently the opposite of...
Oh, I'd love to see this as well, but I can't imagine that it will happen. When I started selling on eBay (before the turn of the century), Final...
Sorry you didn't win on the silver. Then again, if any random 95-W stood much chance of getting a 70, I guess they wouldn't carry the 20K premium...
That's an awful lot like this real-life story. The real one, though, ends with a bit of a nightmare twist.
Oh, I've made that already. Yep, I picked the silver. Unfortunately, it was in 2011. Now, that thousand dollars worth of silver is worth about...
I think it was the Half-Union that was 2.5 ounces (since a double eagle was about an ounce); the full Union would have been 5 ounces.
So, what was the nickel?
Not so much here. (Well, SP69 is fine, of course.)
I wasn't alive at the time, of course, but I will say that I've never seen it written or quoted that way. I've seen plenty of citations from the...
I personally like that design. I liked nearly any of the proposed designs better than the dead Presidents we have now; frankly, if I set aside...
Has any currency of any sort ever "survived in the long run"? If not, I'm not sure what this claim that "fiat currencies can't survive in the long...
I'd say that if you don't dream about your hobby, it's probably time for a new hobby.
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