Heh, the fact that you paid $90 for a high-end, scarce trade dollar is probably the biggest tip-off of all :-)
Heh, I wish it was copper :-) It's a standard steel cent. It's not blast white; that is, there's some light gray toning on the devices that...
A few months ago, I posted a picture of my 1943-D wheatie, which is in fantastic condition. The fields are spotless but for a single (what I think...
This is one of those rare occasions where you want to buy the holder, not the coin. I mean, the melt value of those slabs is probably fifty...
Looks like it was minted yesterday. It's been really well preserved. The obverse is gem quality, but those bag marks on the right wheat ear are...
... you never see them. There's plenty of G-4, AG-3 (and even worse!) coins on the market these days, so I know they must have been in...
Yeah -- that's the exact silica canister I have on order from Brent-Krueger. Actually, I put in an order for both the 40 and the 200.
I collected sets of most circulating coinage (cents through quarters) in Whitman folders when I was a kid (ten years ago or so), and now I'm...
The large picture GDJMSP posted was a digital zoom-in of the mint-mark region of the original picture, so it had the same artifact that the...
If the lines you mean are the concentric 'circle' looking lines radiating from the mint mark, then I think those are JPEG artifacts (digital flaws...
Sounds more like inexperience than malice; she probably just doesn't really know what she's doing. You probably did the right thing; she won't do...
Here's a link with some information: http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?threadID=410549582&tstart=0&mod=1118161236154
For monetary transactions, this may be true. However, when the government devises anti-counterfeit technology for its circulating currency, its...
With technology always improving, it seems as if counterfeit coins are becoming both more prevalent and more difficult to distinguish from the...
Heh, judging by the fact that it was found via metal detector, here's a computer simulation of what it may have looked like uncleaned: [img]
Boy, what a shame it would be if mine turned out to be reprocessed. I think I'm in the clear, though -- under normal lighting conditions, the cent...
Hi; I'm new to the forum, and it looks like a lot of people here really know their stuff. I put together a small collection when I was younger,...
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