On the bright side, you're probably still able to hear other sounds.
My best guess would be the patch rising from the date, spreading across the 9 and 3 and oriented in a 7 o'clock to 1 o'clock direction. But that's...
Surely those are flow marks, large and prominent as expected on a reverse die this worn...?
So is that a die chip or die crack? Well-known variety, or just another minor error?
Some of the mint packaging looks nice, some not so much. But many people have reported that leaving coins in mint packaging (especially the...
Yeah, I get hopelessly bored with piles of shiny 1964 halves/quarters/dimes, but they do generally have their full weight. Older coins don't,...
As an unreconstructed technical-grading fan, I can't say that I like the idea of this, but it does seem more plausible than the other ideas we've...
The only silver I've bought in a long time is (a) silver I find below melt or (b) cherry-picking attempts. If I see, say, a lot of Barber dimes...
Yep, there was certainly a greater fool this time around. Will there be another, though? Do I hear 69?
Interesting question, but I've been led to believe that there isn't any luster under the copper layer -- that the flow lines don't get impressed...
Conversely, as grades inflate, the honestly graded equivalent specimens (that haven't yet been run through the resubmission mill) will tend to get...
Yep, and if someone's got a gun to my head, he's getting whatever will make him take the gun away, regardless of what it's stored in. And if I'm...
If you're in it for fun, you'll always be outcompeted by those who are in it for money, and do enough business to know the odds. ("About 80% of...
Hearsay and all that, I know, but yeah, if this guy is a sockpuppet, can we please get some clean-up attention posthaste?
This. I'm not willing to commit myself to sitting at a bank of security-camera monitors, weapons at my side, 24-7-365. And I'm sure not going to...
I'm more perplexed why anyone would claim that a 1981-D cent with random marks has "exposed zinc", and not post the single most relevant...
Bathroom selfies. Now my day is complete.
I meant that none of the four major variants (copper or zinc, small or large date) are valuable in general. If you ever find me offering a bunch...
Yep, that's definitely a proof! "Impaired" just means it's acquired some marks -- yours got them from circulation, but other things can happen to...
That's right. But none of the P varieties (large/small date, copper or zinc) are especially valuable, IIRC.
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