yeah yeah.. So far I haven't sold or spent anything unusual I've found myself.. unusual to me is grey spots on a mint coin haha. I can't part...
aba..derr.. umm.. wholley sheit! mercy! ;) So if you were forced at gunpoint to choose one..? the 1842 rouble?
You know.. I saw that.. but I thought it was just a reflection or my eyes playing tricks. Wow the reeding seems to climb right up and off!....
Sure.. right in the chin, all the splatter is around a big protruding chunk.. that if I look at it in the light a certain way, it looks like a...
Searched 3 bankrolls of Nickels today.. check out my picture.. it looks like a STAR but that can't be. It's definetly raised and I can see it with...
Yeah I have only about 15 of the filled S's out of 300 coins searched. The slabbed coins I was talking about have all 3 issues on 2 identical...
ti-99 yep! Those were like 200 bucks without the 2k upgrade haha.the game 'lunar lander' had basis in fact.. it really happened. I even saw the...
YAY! Thanks! I have not won anything since a video arcade contest in the 80's WOOHOO!
Unlikely roll model hmm.. never been inside the contests forum.. I'll go the essay route. My roll model would be the Onion roll. I...
I could swear that I had a smooth edge coin with a ROUNDED edge on it. It was not FLAT like all others I've seen.. but it came up correct in...
Everyone here seems to have at least one really cool error coin in their collection that drops jaws when revealed. Mine is certainly yawnworthy...
BWAAAH HAAAH.. the picture in the third post is ABSOLUTELY a torched coin! but LALASD$ says he found BLACK ONES. thats a good sign for me....
best picture thanks darryl.. Heres a good picture. Without a shiney one next to it its hard to tell but the copper color and the black ash...
More heat had the effect of BOILING whatever is on the surface and further turning it to little globs of crust. The coating is probably a couple...
Thanks.. I owe him a money order.. have not paid. His other auctions for the same are over 150 now.. I'm sure he'll take my $100 one and re-sell...
pictures up close. 1 is in natural light. Up close I can see that there is spotty darker material scattered about.. it won't rub off. It's like...
smoked washington Well I torched one.. 1-2 minutes worth of slow propane fuel. No oxygen turned on. The coin didn't glow.. I started small just...
Thanks.. I'll cook one with a torch tonite until its cherry red to see if I can reproduce the effect. I am one of those bidders.. his...
Cool! I think ANACS pop report still says ONE ms-67 graded. I'd look now, but it says "unexpected error" :(. I'm saving a pile to send for...
Hydrachloric acid? baking in a 500 degree oven or kiln? No one snapped them up.. I'm wondering what everyone knows that I don't?...
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