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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sand, post: 8175925, member: 118540&quot;]1. Joy, that I actually received the package. This has always happened. I&#039;ve never failed to receive a package. I always wonder, if I&#039;ll actually receive the package. However, I&#039;m currently waiting for a coin, that was shipped 2 months ago from France. My record was 4 months, for a coin that I ordered from Norway, soon after COVID-19 hit in 2020. That was a painfully long wait. However, I&#039;ve heard horror stories, of much longer waits.</p><p>2. Open the Abafil case, where the coin will go.</p><p>3. Put a cardboard box top, upside down, on my desk, to keep the coin from rolling off of my desk (that happened once), if I drop the coin.</p><p>4. Put a rubber pad, on top of the cardboard box top.</p><p>5. Open the package, while holding the package over the cardboard box top and rubber pad, in case I drop the coin.</p><p>6. If there is a coin in the package, and if the correct coin is in the package, then joy again. One time, the package had no coin in it. On 2 occasions, the package had the wrong coin in it.</p><p>7. If the coin looks good in hand, then more joy. If the coin doesn&#039;t look as good, as the seller photos, then I usually say to myself &quot;I did my best. I did the best, that I knew how to do. I can&#039;t help it, if the coin doesn&#039;t look as good, as the seller photos. I can always upgrade, if I find a better example.&quot;</p><p>8. Sometimes, I examine the edge of the coin, for casting seams or file marks.</p><p>9. Sometimes, I examine the coin under a microscope, including the edge of the coin, to check for signs of casting or tooling or smoothing. Sometimes, I&#039;ll take photos of the coin, under the microscope.</p><p>10. If the coin seems like it is probably fake, or probably tooled, or probably smoothed, then I put the coin in my &quot;black cabinet&quot; case, which is a wooden Lighthouse case, with a tray, that is lined with black felt.</p><p>11. If the coin seems like it is probably authentic, and probably not tooled, and probably not smoothed, and if the coin is good enough, then I put the coin in the appropriate &quot;1st string&quot; Abafil case. I just put the naked coin, on the velvet tray.</p><p>12. If the coin is on the fence, regarding authenticity, or tooling, or smoothing, or if the coin isn&#039;t good enough to go into one of my &quot;1st string&quot; Abafil cases, then I put the coin in one of my &quot;2nd string&quot; Abafil cases.</p><p>12. Rearrange the coins in the Abafil case, to account for the new coin.</p><p>13. Look at the new coin, and all of the coins in the Abafil case, for a while.</p><p>14. Keep the paper invoice, if there is one. If not, then download a soft copy of the invoice, if one is available.</p><p>15. Wish that I had time, to take photos of the coin. I&#039;m sort of a perfectionist, regarding coin photos, and some other things. Therefore, it takes forever, for me to take photos of a coin. Therefore, I usually only take photos of an individual coin, if I want to post photos of the coin, on CoinTalk or another ancient coin forum.</p><p>16. Sometimes, I&#039;ll take some quick and dirty photos of the entire coin tray, just so I can look at the photos, while sitting at my desktop computer.</p><p>17. On my desktop computer, I have a separate folder, for each coin, that I have. For each coin that I have, I have images of the seller photos, and screen captures of the seller description, and screen captures of most of the purchase transaction, and a text file containing my notes, and images and screen captures of seller photos and seller descriptions of other examples of the coin from ACsearch etc, and any microscope photos, and any individual photos of the coin that I took.</p><p>18. I only have approximately 117 &quot;1st string&quot; ancient and medieval coins. I only have approximately 7 probably fake, or probably tooled, or probably smoothed ancient and medieval coins. I only have approximately 20 &quot;2nd string&quot; ancient and medieval coins. Therefore, I don&#039;t have any paper cards with information, for my coins. For each coin, I can look up all of the information, on my desktop computer, in the corresponding folder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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