My concern about GC’s photos has always been areas of lost detail due to blown-out highlights. You can see a bit of this, though it’s very slight,...
The confusion over exactly how safe the “unplasticized” PVC flips might or might not be keeps me from using them. It’s frustrating because I have...
What is that thing exactly? I know gold tokens were made locally in the early days of the California gold rush, but I can’t tell from the slab...
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Aluminum is lighter per unit volume than silver of course, but only by a factor of three or four, not 27. Teri, are you sure about that weight?...
(The scale shows 11.404g. Half that is 5.702, which exceeds the ideal weight of a quarter by about half a percent. I think that’s well within the...
Just a hypothesis: what if he’s calibrating the scale with a 50g weight when it’s expecting 100g? That would be telling it to read a given weight...
Until I read johnmilton’s comment I was going to say that looks like a much better photo than you generally see from that source. They forgot to...
This is awesome. I’m already tall, but the handsome and wealthy part will really help.
That’s the nicest of the 2 pesos I’ve ever seen. Of course, just having a nose puts her in the top third...
Another latent convert here who really wants to believe Lord M’s advice that “the coins will teach you.” But it’s a huge and intimidating field...
Another reference for the Mexican jeton is Neil Utberg, who lived in south Texas and published books about Mexican coins in the 1960s. He thought...
Is the assayer mistake a clue to the counterfeiter’s motive? I’m thinking that “bullion forgers” might like to have a handy way to recognize their...
Que me quede como estoy - let me remain as I am. Here it means something like “I’ll be happy just to break even.” Sorry, I see that moneditis...
Maybe they were stored under adverse conditions for a few years? If so, the toning could slow way down if you treat them better now. Another vote...
Could it be from a die that had rusted, and the fields were later polished? Voting 64 because I have no reputation to lose ;) and because so...
About the 50g x .001g scales, I tried a sub-$20 one from Amazon (several brands there all look like the same scale). It seems identical to my .01g...
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I’ve received several packages from eBay sellers whose contents were wrapped in, or padded with, obviously unused Priority Mail materials. It’s no...
A simple dip in MS70 or just sodium hydroxide alone will take the haze off a proof coin too - easier to come by, and no need to roll a Q-tip...
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