Elizabeth - I'm comin darlin, this is the Big One !! :eek: And Scott - the fields ARE blue.
Confirms what the rev pic did - harshly cleaned.
I shall have to complain to the management :D
Howdy Brad - There has been tons written about this on every forum there is. To truly understand it you'd have to know the history behind it....
Both firms are among the most respected out there. I've bought coins from both firms many times and always been very happy. Dave Bowers runs...
I don't know what you guys are seeing on your monitors but the entire coin looks toned to me. And it appears quite natural.
Oh I'd heard of the fake dimes, just never heard that they were supposedly made by the Soviets.
Vicious rumors, no truth to it at all. But hey, ya know what ? Might be a good idea for to stock up on carrots :whistle:
Dru - if you bid on a coin in an auction is it shill bidding ? Is it shill bidding for anyone else to make a bid ? No, of course not. As for using...
Couple weeks now I think.
It means that if you held a business card up in front of a coin at a distance of 2 inches that you could read what it says on the business card in...
Wouldn't do any good even if it was still there. You see, I personally have never been eligible for TOTW or the Clinker Award and intentionally...
I love seeing youngsters get involved in the hobby. One of the most memorable days of my life my son's first coin show. It soon got to the point...
Would not argue that.
Pay closer attention :D - a couple here on the forum do.
As I have said in previous discussions, what Heritage does is in no way shill bidding. And, they are NOT doing it secretly either. They fully...
In all honesty, the 2nd set confirms, for me anyway, what I suspected based on the first pics but couldn't tell for sure. That is that the coin is...
Actually I wanted to see the whole coin, not just the reverse. I wanted to see that because of the marks I could see in the blow-ups and I wante...
Below is a list of the special designations and their requirements. BN = Brown 95% or more of the coin is brown RB = Red Brown 6% or...
I'm not so sure it is AT. The colors fade correctly, the spots of different color under the darker color, the way the luster shines through -...
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