Not at all. And these lines cannot be on the planchet either because the strike would destroy them. They have to be getting on the coin after...
So it's the thickness of the plastic that bothers you - nothing you can do about that. It is what it is. Even the ones the mint uses have a...
Eye - something very important to know when shooting coin pics but it seldom gets mentioned. You only want to have 1 light source. Now I don't...
Can't help with the first, but the second one is a definite fake.
To the best of my knowledge you cannot buy the same holders the mint uses. I think they have them custom made. Now what are you talking about a...
Only a fool would buy those. Terrible pic where you can't see anything, a site that nobody ever heard of, etc etc etc. Buying those coins...
Looks pretty obvious to me. There is simply little ativity on the blog page with only 56 entries for the entire year. Of course you could also...
Correct, and classic commems have been one of the markets dead spots ever since they were minted. Back in the '90s and early '00s silver was...
You're right, I don't judge. My mantra has always been - and you know this - collect what you like. Now, that to a large extent is the issue....
The first day I just had it sitting in my desk drawer tray. I placed on the window sill last night. The change in color in just 24 hours was...
Correct, common sense says that a different mix in the alloy has to be a different color. But I readily agree with you that as time passes the...
I'd say the coin has AU details but that reverse has been harshly cleaned, thus no grade. I'd say it has mechanical doubling.
No problem believing you Dick, but that isn't what I would call the wood grain effect either. As for the coin I played with, it's already...
OK - how about some that the TPGs call Red ?...
How often were you looking for them when they were common ? I'd wager never. Neither was I. Of course they aren't really common anyway, so the...
That right there is the problem - "in my mind". We do not have the liberty of choosing our own definitions for words. We are stuck using the ones...
Yes coins are sent for grading from outside the US all the time. But there have been cases of coins getting "lost". They never made it to the TPG....
In the entire history of our country there has never, ever, been a dollar coin that circulated much. People just don't like them, they never have...
I don't belittle it at all, when I collected US I had all of them, gold and silver. What I do do is try to point out that the coins will...
Dick - if I understand you correctly you are saying that you can do the same thing I did with a genuine wood grained coin ? I disagree. That is...
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