And a separate post for a separate, but related, thought: If you develop such a discerning eye that you can detect the slightest flaws or signs...
See, the thing is, I've got plenty of coins that had only "insignificant" evidence of cleaning when I bought them -- but it's significant to me...
MEOW *ack*
Hee hee, special occasions carry special dispensation. :woot:
Geeze, @C-B-D, leave a few for the rest of us cheapskates maybe? :wideyed:
A really terrible counterfeit. If you're trying to counterfeit a key date with a mint mark, making the mint mark visible is kinda the whole point.
That also seems very low for a 1932-D mintmark position. I don't know how much variance there is, but the examples I remember seeing had the D...
See, this is one reason I prefer to keep a low profile. That way, nobody realizes that if I think it's a price worth paying, they must be asking...
I've never heard of a "weak mint mark" 1932-D quarter. On every example I've seen, it's impossible to miss. I think what we've got here is a bit...
I've actually never seen the adhesive let go; it's pretty good. The cardboard box was bending almost enough to let the side flaps come out of...
Shhh! Don't give them any ideas...
Then there was a package of Peace dollars I got last week, shipped in a bag, wrapped tightly in bubble wrap, packed in a Priority Mail small...
And I think that's where we'll have to agree to disagree. In this instance, water is a solvent, no more no less. (Okay, a bit more -- it's also a...
Funny -- until I saw this image, I never pictured Jefferson rolling his eyes in this portrait. Now, I can't un-see it.
Okay, I didn't quite actually laugh out loud -- until I read this first paragraph. :) I'll even forgive you for the earworm!
I'm not sure what to think about this statement. If there's non-coin material on the coin, it's "foreign material", whether it got stuck there in...
No, now it's too narrow! ;) "Oops I splashed beer on my coin, I'll rinse it off" -- that's cleaning, but there was no chemically induced change....
Nor was I; I was agreeing with you completely on that point.
Too broad, I think; this would cover things like tooling and plugging holes, and I can't think of those as "cleaning". I'm with OP's first...
Not so much, I think, but keep tossing that hook and I'm sure you'll get bites. ;)
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