In this thread, how very pronounced the difference in detail can be between the eagle's wing and head/chest/shield due to a weak strike. I'd seen...
I learn something useful from most of these threads, so I'll keep reading.
Thinking back to the eligible DEs I (briefly) owned, I realize that I wouldn't have sent them in. They were non-problem coins, not nice enough to...
All of his "restrikes" use a genuine coin. You end up with an altered coin. I agree that altering a 1937-D nickel to remove a leg, or altering a...
Now, that's going big! I almost regret having sold a Type II (for a small, quick profit) a couple of years ago. But that's more money than I'm...
It might have crossed my mind.
A grocery store isn't in the coin-supply business. They have to pay a service to bring them rolled coins. If they sell rolls to customers, they...
Surely you mean "smoking in the restroom"?
Okay, that one I had to look up -- and when the first Google result is from Urban Dictionary, I always think twice about adding it to my own...
Well, switching to a compostable composition was a big step in that direction. Nobody cared about copper pennies in the sock drawer or glove...
Language evolves. In the US, it's been well over a hundred years since "nickel" meant any coin other than a five-cent piece. One-cent pieces have...
Okay, I'll be watching this one with interest. The wings and the high points look like they're from two different coins. I seem to recall the...
My thumbnails thank you.
Yeah, I'm not sure I want to vandalize any sets, but I would've sworn I'd pried a few apart with ease. Now to see whether those were the exception.
I think the seam is along the top in your second edge-on photo. I just grabbed a 1999 silver quarter set that was nearby and tried prying it open...
They don't all come out MS70, and they don't all get handled properly once they leave the mint. I don't care what grade a bullion coin is. But...
The ones I've done it with are press-fit, so yeah, they go back together easily.
fatty?
Since those lenses aren't sealed, though, it would be easy enough to fake this. I doubt you'll get much traction on it as a "rarity".
I'm thinking most of those sets can be pried open with a thumbnail -- then again, I've got pretty good thumbnails. They definitely aren't sealed,...
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