That's the thing, isn't it? I spent the latter part of my career processing and analyzing aerial imagery. Sometimes you have to train yourself to...
You should! I think I have 4 US discovery coins now but you'll only find them in BCCS journal. The entertainment value for me in these threads is...
I rotated the image to presumably the proper orientation. There is strong low-angle lighting from the north. There is a dark shadow under all of...
Except that the corrosion goes over the "scratches" in numerous places and there is an old scratch towards the bottom that clearly goes through...
People actually spent Ikes in the early 70s and I swapped them out of the till, for no particular reason I guess, and their circulation ended. I...
Yeah good luck with that. He feels that only a single mysterious microscopic image is important to anything.
I'm going with a third option - die scratches. From the lighting and shadow on the other elements, they appear to be raised. I've seen very...
I'm very familiar. Our nestegg expired in 2012 and was earning 5.25%. The best we could do then was 1%. Things bounced back up in late 2018 and we...
I believe it's actually "wie geht's?", which is an informal contraction for "wie geht es ihnen?". So there's an apostrophe. "Es" means "it", so...
I don't see it mentioned here, and it probably relates to other things, but Jan 2020 is about when CD/savings rates started going into the toilet....
Grandpa split up his coins among his grandchildren just before he died. Among many other coins, I ended up with this one, which lead to a lifelong...
Easy thread for me - I only have one S proof. Original mint order acknowledgement card too. [ATTACH]
Royal Australian Mint creates Wiggles coins to celebrate 30 years Eight million coins are going to come hot off the presses of the Royal...
And a snake on a coin. Plus it's Sunday. [ATTACH]
Struck-through, retained. [ATTACH]
An excuse to pull out my childhood album. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
At least I learned something. I looked at the NGC and PCGS pop reports and they both have given out FB designations to AU coins and for 1942/1...
OK, I was right on the AU58 and wrong about FSB, but it sounded like there was something really unusual about the grade. So I thought maybe ANACS...
No but like US and Canadian coins, they're similar and there's lots of traffic between countries. Plus if you spent a NZ dollar coin in Aus you'd...
Hey, I have more! I just poked through my world trips coin jar. Some of these must have been circulating in Australia as I have not been back to...
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