A mackerel, actually. There were no scale bars, and I was probably six or seven, so it was a whale to me. :)
Oh, wow, I'd forgotten about the centennial designs! Growing up in Maryland near Interstate 81, I'd get Canadian coins in change fairly...
You don't think those cuts in the upper field on the reverse are enough to bring it down? It's a fantastic strike, and fantastically clean...
Okay, I'm going to let myself feel a little smug about that Jefferson. :) And try not to think about the Roosie.
As I might have suspected, we aren't the first to consider the nature and significance of metal loss due to coin wear. Money and the Mechanism...
I saw an article yesterday (sorry, didn't save the link) indicating that only something like 2% of the world's oil actually goes through the Suez...
Just for completeness, here's a link to the original thread: ORIGINAL THREAD :)
I think the problem is that the rules were described very clearly in the original thread, but the first post of THIS thread didn't refer back to...
So, are weak strikes ever valued more highly as a sort of perverse "condition rarity"?
This is the key assertion, and one that I think we'll be able to test. I'm becoming more convinced that the primary "wear process" is not...
Okay, those Barbers: [ATTACH] 2.136 g [ATTACH] 2.085 g So, that last one -- not too far off in grade from a lot of the Barber Dime bulk batches...
Okay, here are a few lowballers with images and weights. First, a pair of near-uncirculated "calibrators" -- both of these weighed high, so...
Skidding in under the wire -- sorry, folks... Morgan -- MS62 (was considering 61 here). Nice luster, but it fell in with the wrong crowd....
I finally got in to check out the local coin shop near my parents' house. It looked like they might have some pretty nice inventory. I'll never...
Don't you suppose gold and other PM coins entail higher expenses for security at all stages of processing?
No, no, I was just making (rather, attempting to make) a topical joke based on a contest thread (the first one I've actually entered). I'm...
Um, as GeorgeM pointed out, you're technically violating both eBay's and CoinTalk's Terms of Service by lifting those images. I won't tell, but...
Oh, ho -- I did not realize that you could get that activity summary from the bidder list! Thank you for pointing that out. And, yes, the fact...
I think that you're going way out on a limb here. First of all, how do you determine who that other bidder is, now that eBay anonymizes bidder...
I rather suspect that the age of earlier halves led to more wear, period. :) I'd like to see how many AG Barbers you could fit into that tube....
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