Interesting info, Conder. I'll consider that my lesson learned. I still maintain that there was no special preparation of the planchet for the...
The old slab is cool. Leave it there.
Listening to people like Mark Salzberg talk about things like the Newman or Partrick collections, you definitely get a sense that they love what...
Spend it.
The Fly-In club is for collectors of Flying Eagle and Indian Cents. The club meeting schedule is here:...
Your logix are infallible. I will offer you One Million.... er, One Billion Dollars.....
Also, to further help clarify the confusion - the modern era of prooflike coinage (that is, everything after the mid-1980's) does not generally...
Prooflike means highly reflective fields. That's all it means. It has nothing to do with the devices. It has nothing to do with contrast. It has...
I'd use Calipers. Get a good pair with a digital readout, preferrable with a plastic coating on the fingers so you don't damage the coin. I can't...
Dime clashes, even extensive ones, are very common. There should be no premium for the clashing.
No. The modern era of prooflike coinage began in 1984 (nickels and halves begin in this year, all other denominations begin having PL coins by...
Yeah, PL SBAs happen. Yours, while circulated, definitely looks like it has strong PL tendencies. I happen to own 2 of them. The first is a 99D...
If you go to the Heritage website, you can actually get live video of their auctions. I do it quite often.
66, if the luster is good.
You were probably posting while coinchemistry was preparing his post. Read the extended excerpt from Tomaska's book posted above.
Why? What is the difference between one $1000 coin and three $333 coins?
I know you do. I guess we are just seeing different things, or interpreting them differently on this one.
I find it really funny that anyone else in the southeast would schedule another show this weekend. I would think FUN would pretty much soak it all up.
There is a very strong strike in the center with weakness around the edges. This looks a lot like PMD which has been made to look like a die...
Like this? While this cost considerably more than $1250, I also figured now was a really good time to get one. However, this definitely fits into...
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