You can use compressed air if you want, you can vacuum the 2x2s if you want, but you will never stop new cardboard dust from forming. It can't be...
Every coin struck by dies has luster, every coin. And before you want to disagree, what is luster ? Luster is nothing more than the refraction...
I don't even remember the exact coin anymore Mike, it was a few years ago, but it was a commem if recall correctly. But I posted about it here on...
A little more frequently ? Yeah, I'd say when 86% of all examples submitted (for a given coin) are graded as 70's, that qualifies as a little more...
The Sheldon rarity scale was originally developed and only used for large cents. Later it was somewhat adapted and used for early american and...
Now that's something we don't often get, a coin show report from Europe :)
You might want to try these sometime - http://www.cointalk.com/forums/numismatic-resources.33/
I based my answer off this - "Name the coin with the largest discrepancy of face value to precious metal value." Not a ratio.
There are two kinds of rarity - absolute rarity and conditional rarity. Absolute rarity applies the total number of coins of a given type that...
Pretty sure it would be this one - http://www.1tonnegoldcoin.com/ It's face value is $1 million, metal value is over $41 million.
I have personally purchased many coins with a mintage of less than 100 for spot, or less than spot. I even got one with a mintage of 35 for spot....
There are those who will argue that it is not legal, but it happens right out in the open every single day. And the USSS has stated they have no...
You're correct in your identification. As for value, given the advanced state of corrosion - little to none.
Regarding the color of labels - Conder even says in his book that certain PCGS labels are well known for changing color over time. It may be...
As I said earlier, it does not have anything to do with the forum software. All of those links posted in the thread from 2004 are dead because...
That is exactly how it works - angle of incidence equals angle of reflection. Change the angle, you change what you see.
We reached that point with many coins long, long, before the Chinese fakes ever became an issue.
What about the market for counterfeits ? edit -I ask that question because just about all counterfeits were made to deceive when they were...
The lady is right, gotta see the coins. But gold is impervious to almost everything in the ground that could corrode it. Even gold coins recovered...
I asked all of those questions many years ago, and many times. Nobody ever answers because they don't like the answers, or they answer - that's...
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