Nice coin and an even nicer gesture from @spirityoda :)
I retire every Wednesday morning, but come out of retirement every Sunday evening :inpain:
That's if the place doesn't rip you off :)
A slider is a small cheeseburger
Yea it has peripheral luster in the outer legends, but not really anywhere else
I'm not familiar with grading this type, I think at least XF but need to nail down a more exact number grade as I may be selling it. Appreciate...
I'm actually originally from the former Soviet Union (Kiev, Ukraine) and this is where my numismatic hobby began when I was a kid. Coins like this...
Grade wise, based on just the one picture, I would say low end MS details. But, with the glare it's tricky to judge some of the higher points,...
Just a question, how many coins of this type have you examined in hand? Cleaning the coins "with the silver" was a common practice in Soviet...
This is getting just silly. Look at the actual Russian coin. Click on the photo, put your face a few inches from the screen and just look. There...
The flash photography can be deceiving, but I see only minimal luster left around the relief features and the thin spaces between them. Not in the...
You actually quoted me as I was editing my post, which is of course completely fair game :) But anyhow, this coin retains luster in the small...
What you describe in the sun rays is from a cleaning with a cloth or other rubbing medium. It leaves luster in the small spaces that it cannot access.
I cherrypick and bottom-feed constantly, in fact that is pretty much all I do - because I mostly buy on eBay. My reasoning is that.. if you have...
If you have some high value rare coins then you should take mac's advice. But with the more common fare, it's not that hard to do it right even...
It's ND (1898), the other years are actually dated. Nice example by the way, most of these are horribly bad quality
Well, what are you trying to clean off of them. There are things that can be removed with very mild methods, and some that require stronger methods.
Lets take it international... 1904 encased German pfennig [IMG] [IMG]
These are common silver washed novelty pieces with designs based on Ottoman era Algerian coins.
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