Sure, because if you WERE going to refine it... 90% refines nicely to 90% to sell back to the people making planchets for the mint. .999 refines...
And of course, the photoslabs all look like the one in this patent... https://www.google.com/patents/US4878579 - however if you start chasing the...
Yeah ... we can get him to give up that unhealthy Morgan addiction and become "MonsterVam's Slab Slabbing Service" MVSSS...
Agreed that it was a cheap washer - probably found the 1st couple blasting THROUGH the wood and instead of getting a lighter load they just...
What were her grandfathers doing in 1944? Maybe a great family story there...
I think you need to draw a line of distinction between two things Photographing an item so as to hide its flaws, describing it in overblow terms,...
You can't - and even if it's listed in Modern Comems, it may ALSO be listed as Bullion.
MFTL: Just shine the light from an angle if the foil casts a separate shadow it's 2 if it doesn't, it's 2.1 (or - just thought of this - you can...
Actually, he's a very nice guy who haunts flea markets and then comes hear to learn about the odd-ball stuff he finds and hopefully turn a...
MS62 retail value...
Conder's NGC1 (black insert, gold foil) was used for two months, Sep/Oct 1987. The plain white label/white insert - NGC2 and NGC2.1 - followed it...
RED FLAG... "I was looking on a retail sight [sic] at the "random" sight unseen prices for a MS64" That means you are looking at a sample...
The Fall Portland show is the bigger one, the Spring Tukwila show is only about 40% the size (sort of like the ANA shows). But it's a good bunch....
It's a counterpunch. Worth 5 cents.
The mint doesn't reclaim them. The high speed sorter/counters that Brinks, Loomis, et al use are tuned to accept both copper and copper-plated...
Also severe PIDT as SuperDave was alluding to. Progressive Indirect Die Transfer - fairly common in 52s. If I remember the #s offhand (Flynn and...
The "End of the Trail" set (look for it @ pcgs) represented a *numismatic* accomplishment: Some of the pieces were so worn that it took major...
That's why you want the sock(s).
No, it wouldn't work - the coins would be pushed to the outside by centrifugal force and held there. You would need to pulse the salad spinner,...
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