Can't get anything past you guys! Very good guesses. :cool: [ATTACH]
The line by EI of DREI is a die scratch - thus raised on the coin. There are a couple other places with die cracks between letters. Your comment...
This little luster bomb arrived over the weekend. Very happy with it in hand! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Picked up this lustrous German coin recently. It's graded by NGC. I haven't posted a "guess the grade" thread in ages, so here goes... Guess...
It’ll never happen.
It would have to be voluntary by sellers, as coin sales and numismatic interests are one of the least regulated businesses in the country. Who...
This may be my one out of a thousand posts where I agree with @GDJMSP . Most any statement of “transparency” from a dealer can be completely made...
Likely caused by the tiniest of impurity in gold, possibly a few copper atoms? It isn’t problematic and I’d also recommend you leave it alone....
The mug on that new price record Taler is one only a mother could love. :D
That wasn’t the exercise.
6 obverse / 5 reverse
That Jeff Nickel is a 5.5 for me - seen it posted before many times, and it still wows me when I see it reposted.
Maybe I posted this one already? I got this about 3 years ago. Liked the cat and owl. [IMG]
The NGC photos show luster better than yours I think. I actually think they are more akin to how the coin would look in hand - especially gold...
Two or three semi-diffused overhead lights. I'm not trying to disparage the axial method - clearly you guys are getting super quality coin images...
Beautiful photo - very sharp and lovely design!! Once you have the focus mastered (which you clearly do), you can tweak the lighting as necessary...
It is only pronounced “froy-lyne” if you spell it correctly as fräulein. Frau (without the umlaut) is pronounced to rhyme with brow in eyebrow.
Seems CAC and PCGS like to give coins a pass that are colorful. That is a LOT of face chatter for an MS65 graded coin IMO. [ATTACH]
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