Scrape on the reverse? All I see are lines at 9-10 o'clock, just left of 12 o'clock, and 1-2 o'clock; I had guessed those might be die cracks.
Hmm. Yes, please get better images. One thing that may help is if you can put a black background behind them and re-scan them; that will help...
The scans aren't very useful, but if you got all these coins in a single lot, I'm going to go out on a limb and say "fakes one and all". I...
I'm not really seeing what would take the first one below 65FB...?
If you're diluting the nitric acid and keeping it cool, you're mostly producing nitric oxide (NO), not nitrogen dioxide (NO2). That improves your...
Please take a little more care when you throw around the term "uneducated". One mole of nitric acid is 63 grams; at the standard 70%...
You're spending many hours, and at least tens of dollars on chemicals. If you want to pursue this as a hobby, more power to you -- I was a...
Where do you go to get inexpensive nitric acid, and where do you live that you don't have neighbors or authorities hassling you over your toxic...
There's a product called Verdi-Care that many folks here have used successfully -- it's made by one of the members here, BadThad, and available...
Okay, pop quiz: any other examples of coin designs that include the image of a currently-circulating coin embedded within the design? Heck, an...
There's a headline on Coinflation this evening that reads "Precious Metals Moving Closer to Bottom?" Seems to me that if they're going down,...
Never mind counterfeits, here's an example of the kind of auction I've mentioned once or twice before: Lot of 4 - 2010 $50 American Gold Buffalo...
Dunno. It does seem like they'd eventually decide to add some level of filtering for "nuisance reporters". It's also pretty certain that they...
Huh. Good catch! I'll try to remember that path. From all I've heard, the Copyright Police are always much more aggressive (and better-funded)...
Yep, and it continues to have about as much effect as the "close doors" button on an elevator. Once upon a time, the "report item" form had a...
"Trust us, it's accurate. And if you don't trust us, and try to test it, you'll probably ruin it". I don't know about you, but that doesn't...
It's stretching things at this photo size/resolution, but I can almost imagine that that feature along the top of the D is a remnant from the...
Dryer coin?
Wow. Doesn't anyone else think it looks like a plated finish that's developed cracks?
WTH did that come from? Why on Earth would you want fewer people watching out for fraudulent auctions?
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