Hence, "market grading"?
Now just from a chemistry standpoint, nickel is pretty active, copper is moderately inactive and silver is quite inactive. Interesting.
Sorry to get back to the original topic, but I've been thinking about that nickel. Now nickel is a moderately reactive metal, so I don't think...
Please someone correct me if wrong. Proof coins are non-circulating issues made for collectors. They use special dies, special presses that...
Both curmudgeons and conspiracy-types are fun to read, but they get tiresome after awhile...uh...I get tiresome after awhile, so my wife says.
If you need someplace to send all those horrible ones, I can PM you an address :)
Wow, Paddy, looks like you went ballistic with a sharpie.
That one really is gone. I'll be interested to hear what the gurus have to say.
I would assume some are before pics and some are after? Also a bath in what?
The detail in the second one is awesome.
I wish I had a dime for every Swiss cupronickel coin I have bought thinking them to be silver...
You must have a few other V-nics. Try some methods on them before you mess with that coin. Soaking or dipping is NEVER going to cause hairlines.
Yeah, e-bay would be a good place. Even if you get one a couple of years old, the information is still good, and, as I said, the prices are...
Looks like a WAM to me.
Looking in my 2011 "Red Book" (A Guide Book Of United States Coins - R.S. Yeoman) an essential source for collecting American coins. Not...
Hey, welcome. Worn Morgans are usually worth only around melt unless it is a rare date. Afraid I don't know what the "magic" dates are, but I'm...
Not sure, but think whenever you make a user name, you're stuck with it. Perhaps an administrator could help you with this. Shouldn't be too...
Consider, if you just wanted a slabbed coin, this is about as cheap as you could go.
Actually all of these types of doubling ARE mint errors. It's just that they aren't worth much, possibly because it is so common. If a press is...
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