I agree Green, and that's the point I have been trying to make all along. People toss around the word expert like they do the word rare....
Not really. What you are thinking of was a reference I made to what a ducat would have been worth in US money back when ducats were still being...
OK - why ? Because he wrote a bunch of articles ? Writing articles doesn't make you an expert, it just means you write articles. Mike writes for a...
Yeah, a coin here or a coin there, you're right. But what about the guys like Mel Fisher or any of the others that have found shipwrecks &...
Thought I made that clear - for the toning.
Love it !! :thumb: Another one I always wanted but never got.
That diamond paste, it's placed on the zinc plates. It is mentioned several times in the articles. It is also mentioned that they use different...
That depends on the buyer to a large degree. Some folks have no problem paying up for problem coins, others do. It also depends on the problem,...
No, you need to watch what I actually say much closer - instead of what you interpret me to be saying. And I mean what I have said in in other...
As does just about any other govt., including our own. But since they make it the law of the land, it's not really considered stealing. And since...
OK Paul - I'm gonna guess you paid about $600 for it. My reasons for that are simple, it's pretty coin but not extravagantly so. So the premium...
The process is documented, that's how I found out about it. But you will find very few references to it. I had to search and search through many...
When someone says a coin has pitting it means the coin has suffered from corrosion and there are small holes in the surface of the coin. Just like...
I agree, when copper tones, blue is a common color. But, when they look like that coin, it is common that it was dipped in MS70.
That was an ooops on my part - hit the 5 instead of the 4. I was guessing an dgoing from memory regarding the date. If it's the size of...
Mike from what I have found in my research zinc plates are what was used to polish dies even before the US Mint opened. And while I cannot say...
Hmmmm - never heard of them using the phrase "not suitable for certification". Which one was it that said that ? Normally they would give some...
I think that value is going to be pretty close. I imagine you paid pretty close to that.
Pretty much any coin shop would do it.
Because you are not polishing the die by hand for one thing, nor are you using a piece of sandpaper. Dies were polished on a flat, spinning zinc...
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