Enough arguing about who did what and when ! Either stick to the topic of the coin idea or the thread will be closed.
How many people have any idea how long strike designations such as FH, FBL, FB, etc have been around and in use ? Let me put it this way. The ANA...
Look at the full size picture and it's pretty easy to see the black gunk remaining in the tight recesses of the letters, date and touch on the...
No, it doesn't. Harshly cleaned and improperly cleaned do mean the same thing though.
Yes it is normal. What would be abnormal would be to not find some signs corrosion on an ancient coin.
Others have already tried the idea. The IRS kindly informed them they were wrong ;)
They're on lots of coins. Most people just don't know what they are and typically attribute them to being something else.
Please post pics of the coins.
Probably more aware of that than there are aware that an entire Proof Set of 1868 US coins was struck in aluminum.
I don't know that they ever released that information. But if you contact NGC you might be able to find out how many of each they slabbed. It...
Mike Meziak's show makes tons of money, yours won't.
Sure, lots of them. But there's a whole lot more that have been cleaned. Just make sure you remember that there is a huge difference between the...
Are you sere they are milk spots ? What most people call milk spots, are not milk spots at all.
To be honest, I think every network will turn it down.
I think the 2 Morgans would make it through but the rest are kind of iffy.
It would make no difference whatsoever because the lathe lines are not on the hub, they are on the die blank - the working die blank. Hubbing the...
Yes it will progress. Slabs do not stop toning, they only slow it down. But the fact that you are noticing the toning at all indicates that you...
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