No problem believing you Dick, but that isn't what I would call the wood grain effect either. As for the coin I played with, it's already...
OK - how about some that the TPGs call Red ?...
How often were you looking for them when they were common ? I'd wager never. Neither was I. Of course they aren't really common anyway, so the...
That right there is the problem - "in my mind". We do not have the liberty of choosing our own definitions for words. We are stuck using the ones...
Yes coins are sent for grading from outside the US all the time. But there have been cases of coins getting "lost". They never made it to the TPG....
In the entire history of our country there has never, ever, been a dollar coin that circulated much. People just don't like them, they never have...
I don't belittle it at all, when I collected US I had all of them, gold and silver. What I do do is try to point out that the coins will...
Dick - if I understand you correctly you are saying that you can do the same thing I did with a genuine wood grained coin ? I disagree. That is...
In all likelihood the coin will never be worth than bullion content anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Your best choice since you obviously...
Is it ? If you place thenm in the box and introduce no gases the coin will not tone at all. So in this case there is no catalyst, there is only...
There is a caveat that goes along with that saying. It is - unless you know what you are doing ! Problem is that few do. It's not the use of...
I agree.
Well it needs dipped, or at the least stored very carefully. For if that toning is allowed to continue any longer it will turn to corrosion and...
I've explained it several times on the forum, but it's been a while. Long story short - born a Protestant and raised a Catholic.
Now as you can see, it has the stripes on one side only. It's the same coin in both sets of pics, just a little different angle on the light to...
A while back in one of the threads about woodies Thad brought up a comment about coins that only had the wood grain effect on 1 side and posted...
Half of what was going for a couple years ago.
Fair enough. Then suppose you just immerse the coins in an airtight box and fill that box with the appropriate gasses to cause them to tone very...
Value is about $10-$15.
Value - $175 - $190.
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