Because we all know that this hobby contains nothing but people with pristine ethics, right? ;)
The 1964 cent you reference is not worth having graded. It will not grade high enough to pay for even the return postage, regardless of the...
Wayte Raymond pages were famous for and sought after for their ability to tone coins nicely. Over time, however, they apparently become less up...
I backed off of saying that, because on Morgan dollars, it appears that die fatigue doubling shows up on Liberty's ear. For the most part,...
Die fatigue doubling. As dies wear out, they sometimes develop what looks like doubling around certain design elements.
Mine.
I call it glue.
That doesn't matter. Hold him to a refund. If you don't, you're teaching him the value of being a con artist at age 10. Bring it up with the...
My ears are burning. That was a lot of holders ago. Today, I would label it S2, since I was waiting for the big IHC books to come out before...
If the die cracks on yours are more advanced than those illustrated, then the one used for the illustration was a slightly earlier die stage.
It looks like a match to the cracks on JOH-23 to me. You may have a slightly different die stage than the one that was illustrated. The JOH...
1902 is available with better luster than appears to be show in the photo. I also can't tell to what extent there are little marks all over the...
Whoa! Your girlfriend went to a coin club party with you? She's a keeper!
I'm fairly sure that 1989 was the first year that the mint mark was part of the hub for cents. No more separate mint mark punch. While it didn't...
I've though of getting some small number punches and punching a TPG serial number on a hole filler coin in an album (especially if I were to use a...
And here's the set so far. Messydesk Digits of Pi (edited to fix link)
A while ago, someone asked me if I was going to do a "digits of pi" set after finishing my Prime Number Set. One could no doubt make a pretty...
Digits 542 through 545: [IMG]
Where I thought I saw the luster breaks were on the corner of the book, the back of Pilgrim's upper arm near the shoulder, and the hull of the...
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