Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue, And a Sixpence in her shoe. Several very, very cheesy websites on the...
On a semi-related note, the National Day of Prayer has been ruled unconstitutional:...
Last year I respooled a roll of 120 film onto old 620 spools and loaded it into a Kodak Bull's Eye 620. Still worked. The pics were nothing...
I have mixed feelings about Barber coinage. Their broad homogeneity is rather dull in one regard, the issue of Liberty's sexual ambiguity is...
Here's all the specific info I have on it.
Hi farthing, I first posted this 5 and a half years ago. I was just a kid bumming around Europe. I'm not sure how I ended up in California with...
Hi phubanks, that won't really be necessary. I'm pretty proficient in photoshop and coin photography to do that sort of thing. I'm really most...
Here's another tale from my time in Germany. The account is still online, buried in the archives on another forum, and here's what I wrote:...
It's the 1984 Olympics commemorative. It's probably one of the most affordable modern US commems. Yep, I saw. I think my expectations are...
Another thing I was considering was mounting a vintage postcard of the Philadelphia mint (or another old mint) on the opposite side of the cover....
Wow this thread got bumped! I actually finished the modern US coinage page. [img] I got a proof 1980 SBA, the silver Bicentennial set,...
The usage of classical themes is allegorical. Biblical themes can be used as allegory, such as on the Supreme Court building where it's used in...
In general I would agree with you. I'm from Canada so I mainly grew up with those coins, and other world coins as well. I'm putting together a US...
:whistle: OK, I'll make more of an effort to capture the coin's essence. Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'm OK for the time being. But...
I've met Jack on a few occasions, and stopped over at his shop for a while last February. He's a sweet old gentleman. Also, he's a devoted...
With all due respect, how could you possibly know this? As I mentioned in the original post, the toning is more subtle. The photos are a pretty...
i took the photos in this thread.
Toning isn't too much of a concern for me in this southern California climate.
Thanks No, just coins of various grades that I think look nice that are relatively affordable.
I won this auction late last week. It looked like a pretty good type coin for my 7070. Since the seller was in Gardena I got the coin the next day...
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