You have to look through thousands and thousands to find the super gems. It's even tougher for me because I also demand full steps. Admittedly, I...
Yea, yea....LOL I wrote the book while I was laid off. These days I'm working my edited off. The time will eventually come to finish it up. :)
Read and learn - http://www.amazon.com/Coin-Chemistry-Including-Cleaning-Preservation/dp/0971392471
Lucky you! NICE SNAG!
Beautiful! It all has to do with the thickness of the silver sulfide layer. It doens't "flow", it just deposits at a different rate.
That pretty well sums it up! :D As for the coin....I LIKE IT! :thumb:
Normal, but damaged coin.
The thrill is in the hunt! I own a few slabbed coins, but I prefer raw.....in a way slabbed coins are cheating.:p
Actually, I'm not a big error/variety collector, I just have a few and mostly non-photographed....so don't get too excited. LOL
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