After you made your comment, I went back and studied it some more, and started getting drawn to the halos around the stars. I still think those...
I'll be waiting for the lesson. ;)
I still can't really judge from static photos what's wear and what's just contact points. I'm inclined to say this one's MS, and I'd guess 62...
My wife and I have a lot of complementary skills. Or at least we don't have too many matched deficits. She knows not to expect me to remember or...
The counterfeit in that article's much worse, though, at least to my eyes. Look at the broken letters on the obverse. I don't see that in OP's...
Leaving ugly fingerprints on pieces of US history... nope, going to back away slowly from further comment.
[ATTACH] A couple that might stretch to VG08, more realistically G06. Some really slick ones, including an 1897 with the mint mark area...
Quick sharp spike on silver and gold this morning. I guess everyone's nervous about Pakistan and Afghanistan.
SP64. SP stands for SPittle.
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I still can't think of any physically possible way for pure acetone to affect a copper surface that has only bare metal and possibly some oxide....
Depends on how far you needed to carry it, and/or how carefully you needed to conceal it.
Great find, and totally on topic for this forum! There's even an ongoing thread for Coinstar finds.
No. :( I did get my Technician license twenty-odd years ago, but never operated. I'm an electronic tinkerer, and thought it would be useful to be...
At this point, I've been repeatedly reassured by "agents" that they're perfectly fine. I also note that the verbiage as you're selecting "reason...
Asymmetric knowledge. At a ham fest (flea market for electronic gear), I found someone selling a box of old Popular Electronics magazines from...
I wish it were, but I think the Mint's stated explicitly that it's for one year only.
I came across an eBay listing for a 1921 Morgan and a Seated Liberty dollar this afternoon. The SLD looked suspicious - especially because of the...
I don't think the HPA itself actually specifies which face of the coin needs the COPY stamp, but I'm not in a position to look it up right now ..
Frequently (usually?), sale listings for these show the COPY stamp, but the coins actually delivered don't have it. Those unmarked "coins" then...
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