What you are seeing are either "picteals" lol OR porosity in the date area that is mimicking false shapes
Remember guys, he used to live in Virginia City in his youth so he was directly connected to the gold and silver mines of the Comstock load ;)...
I just bought a coin with a gun on it las week. Mainly because I went to Fort Vancouver high school though (go trappers). I like guns on coins but...
Hey, I think my 21 was forged in that fire too :shame: [ATTACH]
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$150 was exactly my feeling on the dime. I had the Peace at around $300 retail
I'm all for people expressing whatever view they have. But here on ct (and elsewhere though it can get way out of hand here) it gets to the same...
Yes. On many, unless the coin was precisely lined up to the details on the new die you can see "ghost" remnants of the host coin
You're using too much magnification. At 40x a die crack will look like the rocky mountains while flying 20ft above them.
I asked the bartender if the owners would sell her and I was told no but I could buy the hotel. That was back in June. An a side note. Upstairs,...
:stop:Come on. No "I don't like these for this reason or that"... PLEASE. We've all heard the arguments of both sides and I don't want this thread...
Inducing natural toning like envelopes is fine if the science backs it up. It's when you start trying to quickly add color using nefarious methods...
If you guys would like to read up on the color progression and science of toning on silver coins here you go......
O/S on the label stands for "overstrike" as in "struck on a". He uses mid grade specimens I believe
It's common sense. Everything doesn't need to be quantified and I'm not saying that every stacker becomes a coin collector but it stands to...
I see it the exact opposite. I believe stacking adds a great deal to numismatics. It's a gateway drug that adds more people to numismatics every...
Agreed. They're biased marketing tools so by nature they are therefore unreliable especially in comparison to one another
Finding 1921 morgans without a single die crack is the real challenge. Heck, vamworld has crack attribution guides for 21's which should tell you...
Only on a coin forum is my title non-automotive related lol. Be honest though, who got fooled for a second :) Just picked up these two for my DC...
When the Sunnywood set was being assembled he was told he was nuts for paying such high premiums for his amazing cherrypicked monster morgans. He...
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