Happy Birthday! (Not a few days late, but almost a full year early.) I didn't get birthday wishes here either, but that's because I keep it to...
It might be as simple as "they're self-insuring". People often mention Hugh Wood insurance for their collections; that covers shipping as well, I...
I thought it seemed pretty farfetched. But then I thought of some of the other things I've seen in TPG slabs... :rolleyes:
I came across this thread for the first time while looking into a question a newer thread raised, and it made me wonder -- has anyone ever found a...
So today I learned that dimes struck on quarter stock are known. I suppose it would have been possible for 1975 or 1976 dimes to be struck on dime...
You've already learned that silver has a characteristic look. If someone scattered a bunch of worn clad dimes with a few silver dimes mixed in,...
Okay, first time for everything -- I checked the seller's listings, and I don't see anything that makes me suspicious. But wait for people with...
I'm stealing that, or at least bootlegging it.
And maybe flowers and a movie first.
Okay, here's one question I've had for a while: outside of checking toning (including copper color), why does CRI matter for inspecting coins?...
But why limit yourself to simple sesquipedalianisms when you can instead imagine semiquinpedalian neologisms? ("They're two and a half feet long!")
Halogen bulbs do have filaments. They just run hotter than old-style incandescent bulbs, so they produce cooler/bluer light. It's still a smooth...
And some die deterioration? Those flow lines are pretty coarse and prominent...
I thought halogen was the gold standard for examining coins...?
That would have been my recommendation in the past, too. Today, though? It's been a long time since there's been a local coin show, and if they...
You need a bright point source to make a diamond really scintillate. Now that we're Living In The Future, that's easy and cheap to do in a small...
There's a coin-return hole on the front of the machine, right there in front of everybody. That's what people refer to as the "reject bin". I'm...
I don't know why people are jumping on the "must be stolen" bandwagon for these. I've got quite a few $1 silver certificates, heavily worn, that...
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I'd render it as "foycht-vonger", but the "ch" sound doesn't match anything in English (just as our "th" doesn't match anything in German). If you...
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