Only my wife, son, and a cousin who's also an avid collector are aware I have a coin collection. The more people who know, the greater the...
Bravo!
Hence the irony of this sudden deluge of posts and threads regarding "AT fraud".
Seriously? Do you even read what you write? You're the one who made this thread a legal discussion by referring to artificial toning as fraud and...
But you didn't start this thread about "everything else", you started it about toning. Do you not understand that ultimately there can be no...
Buy the coin, not the toning.
Without indulging in pseudo-intellectual misdirection, and without resorting to condescending references to good ol' boys at the truck stop bar,...
Protection from what? If someone knowingly buys a coin with suspicious toning -- graded or raw -- where's the fraud? Who has been victimized? This...
Yours is the common basic design. The Royal Mint has also issued the 50 pence coin with many different commemorative reverses since the early...
Lots of interesting coins from the Belgian Congo. I have one that I can't photograph right now because I had shoulder surgery this morning, but it...
Bingo. That's why you do it. Going through them will be great fun, and it's an excellent way to get a basic introduction to modern world coins...
$30? I'd take that in a heartbeat.
They're plentiful and cheap, but I've rarely seen one raw that didn't look over dipped and/or harshly cleaned. And the nicer graded ones are...
Not to mention infinitely better than our Norwegian, right? :D
Pound for pound, German coins are hard to beat.
This is why I abandoned proof coins. Too aggravating dealing with the haze problems.
Even though George's head is disproportionately small in relation to the rest of his body, it's still a nice coin and a worthy addition to your...
@Southernman189, A CAVEAT TO WHAT I POSTED EARLIER IN THIS THREAD: My experience is that acetone is reactive with aluminum coins. I learned this...
No. Acetone does not interact chemically with the surface of a coin.
Agreed. SBAs may be boring and uninspired, but I could say the same about several other U.S. coins. Beyond that, there are far uglier coins...
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