On the subject of the discoloration that MS70 can produce on copper, I noticed this in the MSDS that Kentucky cited: Avoid contact with aluminum,...
I would break them gleefully and not look back. To me the OGP is unattractive, inconsistent across the years, and (as Cladking pointed out)...
Here's mine. At first I thought I had the identical die, but the 4 is a little different. After superimposing the two images as best I can, I...
Another vote for Excel or similar. A custom app might be nice, but I'm enough of an obsessive-compulsive geek that I just assume no application...
[Thinks] Well, on reflection I guess it's happened often enough. But rarely with such happy results.
I love these too. I wonder how often it's happened that a country's entire coinage has been designed at one time by a single artist?
JeffsRealm, folks here generally won't tell you that you're wrong to collect something that makes you happy. (Well, actually when things get...
Hard to be sure without higher-res photos - maybe GB-51? This guy has very decent photographs of many of the varieties, including some not listed...
Agreed! By the way, there's a story that Villa's people got the copper for these by pulling down telegraph wires on the estates of the Terrazas...
That would make it GB-49, if anybody's keeping score.
Sonlarson, are you sure it's not reverse Q? It shows the tiny spur hanging from the bottom of the vertical stroke of the 5, and the die crack also...
That's a gorgeous set of one of my favorite coins - nice work! Personally I wouldn't change anything about the presentation. I won't hazard a...
Papasolar, it's already been pointed out that the exchange rate value of the coins isn't relevant here, but it may still be worth mentioning that...
The diminutive can connote affection, as well as small size. Another example of the same usage, for a statue that dates from before independence:...
Sorry, what is "Care"? Verdi-Care?
So it does exist. Good work!
This isn't nearly as elegant as sonlarson's solution, but here's the first page of a 20th century Mexico type set done in a binder page. I like to...
I focus on Mexico because it's just down the road from here, and because the frequent changes in its coinage are so much a road map to its past -...
Jeff, since Derrida passed away we really have no way to know what you're saying ;)
Yes, and I can see why it's not popular, but these issues are interesting to me precisely because they're hard. The easy way, which I see...
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