Precisely the the point. But to be more accurate, some use the incorrect terminology. And yes, that includes Margolis & Weinberg. The marks from a...
That die shows something that I have tried to explain a thousand times and few seem to understand, or be willing to believe. But this is a perfect...
Boy I hope so - I haven't learned anything yet today !
I used to have a saying when I was in business - For you , the difficult can be done almost immediately. The impossible, just takes a little...
The why is easy Matt. You do it because you can't help thinking of all the things you can learn ;) And you just can't resist that :D
Well, no. But I did manage to free-climb the tallest of The Three Patriarchs, (the one in the middle) -...
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Forget the Tarn-X, and the motor oil. As I said, Tarn-X is about as harsh as it gets. And it should never be used on coins. Tarn-X ruins coins....
A lot of people have the idea that natural toning takes a long, long time to occur, many think of it in terms of decades. And yes, depending on...
An adventurer ? LOL ! Not a phrase I have ever heard anyone use to describe me Dave. It was usually something more along the lines of "he's...
It seems kind of obvious to me that since there are plenty of '82 and later pennies out there floating around and still in circulation, and since...
Definitely, that kind is usually called a rim bruise and usually results from the coin be dropped on its edge. More worrisome to me are the...
We tried 8 first - wouldn't budge. I went back in and got 3 more - did the trick. Nahhh, never did. I left the Keys not long after we brought in...
We shall have to agree to disagree. Some of what you have circled are the marks and cracks I refer to, and they are not in the same places IMO....
In that condition, maybe worth a bit over melt I would think, but not much.
I think ya did just fine Eduard :thumb:
Took me a minute to figure out what prompted that question. Then I realized you must be asking about my hand. No, it wasn't the anchor itself, if...
There is no way, none, zero, zip, that I would believe that that coin is NT.
None of the major cracks on the die are on the coin. But it's when you look closely at the small die cracks on the coin, and then compare them to...
Aint gonna let the whippersnapper outdo me ! [ATTACH] Devil made me do it :devil:
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