All I am trying to say is that some cleaning is acceptable, either for ancients or for modern coins. You just have to be careful and know what...
Nope, they make legal coins for quite a few countries. Look it up.
So, do you collect only ancients that have never been cleaned? :)
Yup, I have one of those...
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Welcome to Coin Talk. If you take the coins out of the holders and steady the camera/phone by placing it on a stable base, your photos will be...
OK, I won't clean coins, I will instead conserve them! :)
I have a fondness for those too, and they pair well with a one pence...just wish there was a matching hapence.
If the state of the coin bothers you, just follow some safe practices in improving its appearance. Avoid rubbing or scrubbing on the coin. Use...
...only if you can tell that it was cleaned. In this case, cleaned would be "harshly cleaned" and not "conserved". "A rose is a rose is a rose..."
Welcome, the Franklin Mint is an odd entity, considering the number of coins they made for world countries.
They can be seen o anything done this way if you bother to look.
At my LCS Saturday, they were out of silver slugs 1 oz, 5 oz and 10 oz!
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I'm guessing kids going around answering numismatic questions to complete a card that earns them a gift.
so............not too much? :)
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...reminds me of a girl I used to know...
OK Boomer... :):):)
Let's cancel that "illicit" crap since that is a modern construct. How many ways have people used to escape reality? Lots and lots!
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