That will be fine until they get big enough to act like eBay.
I like toning until it distracts from the beauty of the coin. This is not my kind of toning.
I mentioned smoothing in an earlier post. Some people think that means hiding defects in some way or another. I take coins that are covered with...
Here is a Valentinian I I just finished. Posted some time back when I was still working on it. I hope it doesn't look like it has seen a lot of...
Yes, but is the one pictured a Sawbuck?
Sawbuck?
McMillan Park in Mt. Pleasant is named after the uncle tat was a founding father of the town. He donated the land for the park. That is where the...
My ancestors settled Salem, Iowa in the 1840's. One of them was planner for Mt. Pleasant. My dad's ancestors settled all up and down the Skunk...
I am from Iowa and thought I knew most towns. I've been all around Coin but never in the town.
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I don't consider you a failure. I feel like I am the failure in my attempts to clean coins. I am an novice with about two year experience. All of...
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Here is a 1910 Wheat that looks to be plated. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
@Insider Did you ever get the answer to your original question? I learned that if you do anything to an ancient coin after it is removed from the...
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I guess what you are saying is that smoothing is the act of covering up tooling. I can't see anything being considered tooling if the action never...
No. I have been buying from the mint since 1959. I have had enough with the dozens of different coins put out each year. I got the last of the 10...
I was with a company that manufactured water jet cutters. They would cut anything. We sold them for lots of uses, even off shore for removal of...
In all fairness @Insider I should elaborate. I think there is a big difference between cleaning, smoothing and tooling. If you change the details...
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