Phone cameras have gotten ridiculously good at this point, but when I want to take Serious Photos I use a Canon DSLR with an actual macro lens and...
That you can. I'm too lazy to write a tutorial on URL unquoting, though. :rolleyes: It's much easier to hit Reply, then copy the URL from the...
Were some of these (especially the 1904-O) scanned rather than photographed? Scans usually make a coin look more dead -- they hide its luster....
Yep, I understand Peter's been made aware of the issue and is looking at it. The ones that are broken link to images hosted on external sites....
Look at the "Buy One Get One Free" listings. Those show regular prices (the sale is "50% off regular price"). That's what I was comparing. And...
On a real example, the dots in V.D.B. are smaller than the inside of the loops in the B. On your fake, they're much larger.
Certainly not around here (central NC). I do the grocery shopping for our family. There's no way that groceries in general have doubled in price...
What the heck? Someone spent a lot more than ten cents worth of time turning that quarter into a 15-cent piece...
I chose my words carefully. I'm pretty sure the dollar hasn't lost 50% of its purchasing power in the last 12 years; I think it's lost much less...
I believe @Insider still has a deal for CoinTalk members where you can get ICG to grade coins for $10 each. The market seems to prefer PCGS or NGC...
Oh, it's certainly proof of something, all right.
I had to do a double-take on that fourth photo. "A ladyslipper? In a pot?" But I certainly don't know my orchids, so I'm guessing it's just a...
You can get a "flat clinch" stapler. It flattens the staple as part of the process. Still not 100% mistake-proof, but a lot safer for coins. I've...
[ATTACH] She knows exactly what she's doing. Buying in quantity, she may not have paid more than a buck or two for each one.
Twelve years on, and still waiting. A "cheap government" dollar still buys most of what it did in 2009. How's that alternate REAL MONEY doing now?
Oh, you want a paper detector. THAT would be hours of fun. :rolleyes:
And the seller counts on people "not getting around to" following up on things like this. But for $600, it's certainly worth the effort. This is...
OUCH! Can you imagine buying a coin like that right before a hoard hits the market?...
Yep. Looks like the 1924 in that grade is almost four times as much, and the rest are all six-figure coins (except of course the HR lettered edge...
Then there's this one that showed up on the Bay this evening -- I had no idea you could get any double eagle in MS68 at any price, never mind less...
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