Perhaps I chose my words wrong. What I meant is that the colors all follow "ROYGBIV". That is sometimes not true with AT coins. Feeling is based...
Your link is working now. Hot dang, those are gorgeous.
Sorry, VKB, but I think that is a load of bollocks. I've been collecting for 32 years, and I've never been to one of those classes. I've read...
They must have downgraded it. It was listed as an R-5 in 2009 when I bought it. And yes, that is exactly the lesson I hope to convey.
In the modern era of the internet, how do you propose then we use this tool to communicate and commit commerce? Photographs are essential to trade...
Is the weight the same on a genuine, homeland counterfeit, and colonial counterfeit? Or does one generally weigh less than another? Because that...
And so, Kurt, I pose to you again the question: For everyone else, what would you recommend? Assume they are willing to learn, but unable to...
There may be many more willing than are able. By all means, for those able, attend the ANA summer seminar. I'm sure it is fantastic. But far more...
Ian Russel estimated in 2015 that there were 10 million coin collectors in the US. You think they can all fly to coin-Mecca and learn grading from...
Well, that is actually really cool then. How can you tell?
Your link appears to not work. It takes me to a page and says "no images found"
It graded because, although it is *highly* unusual, it also looks perfectly natural to me. The color progression from light to dark looks...
Haha, imagine what John Reich and Charles Morgan would say!
Well now, that would be ideal. But that's also highly impractical for the vast majority of people. So, for everyone else, what would you...
Yes, I read his book twice. And then I played around with the settings and the lighting and the camera that I had until I found something that...
That was one idea, and probably the most plausible. The other ideas were planchet striations or roller marks, but those would be parallel and I...
Hmmm.... I more often use ISO 400, f/5.6, and something in the range of 1/400 - 1/600s I find that too much light is just as much of a problem...
A picture is worth a thousand words! You can have text descriptions all day long, but I think a photo comparison is far more useful. So you don't...
Nope, but I look forward to your show report!
I can't speak for him, but I would guess he's comparing the grading standards for the Liberty Seated Half Dollar to those of the Liberty Seated...
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