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Never try to teach a pig to sing.....
canadacolornut
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It never works and only serves to annoy the pig.
But I think I'm finally "getting it"-that is if PCGS sees these coins the same way I do.
First of all, I am through messing with proof coins in any fashion-acetone, ms70,any kind of dip-even if they have
that milky crap I despise in the fields. Most of the time, no matter what I use, I either screw up the coin further
or it looks like it was stamped out of plastic with little lustre and no character at all.
The first image here is a South Africa 5 Shilling piece that, if you look it head on, you see that foggy veil over most of the
coin. But when you tilt it under good light, decent color toning comes through.
In the past I would have tried to get that fog off the coin.
Now? Do, Re, Mi, Fa....
The coins below are out of the latest buys of proof sets where, on average, I may get two or three coins worth submitting,
sometimes none.
From a recent 1950 set I'm sending in 8; pretty sure they're all PR64 or better and as sure as anyone can be about how
the graders will view them, that there are at least a couple of PR66s in there.
Thankfully I'm dealing with relatively inexpensive sets because, of course, the ones not worth submitting are not worth much
of anything on Ebay or elsewhere. I just have to hope that I don't buy any more "No return" pieces of junk like the last much
heralded sets were.
I'm still convinced that the British Mint has a Supervisor of Carbon Spot Placement that determines-not IF the set will
be spotted -but exactly where the spots will be placed.
"'Ow about on the tip of the queen's nose this time Fartheringham?" "C'mon chappie, we did that on the Penny!
Let's try the reverse field. Mayke it look like a cannon ball coming into the sails"
Finally I had a breakthrough on photography this morning. When I want to show the full color of a coin I have to tilt
it slightly which, of course, throws the coin out of focus.
This morning my voice teacher suggested that "Hey Bud! If you have to tilt the coin, why not tilt the bloody camera too?"
So, La, Ti, Do....
But I think I'm finally "getting it"-that is if PCGS sees these coins the same way I do.
First of all, I am through messing with proof coins in any fashion-acetone, ms70,any kind of dip-even if they have
that milky crap I despise in the fields. Most of the time, no matter what I use, I either screw up the coin further
or it looks like it was stamped out of plastic with little lustre and no character at all.
The first image here is a South Africa 5 Shilling piece that, if you look it head on, you see that foggy veil over most of the
coin. But when you tilt it under good light, decent color toning comes through.
In the past I would have tried to get that fog off the coin.
Now? Do, Re, Mi, Fa....
The coins below are out of the latest buys of proof sets where, on average, I may get two or three coins worth submitting,
sometimes none.
From a recent 1950 set I'm sending in 8; pretty sure they're all PR64 or better and as sure as anyone can be about how
the graders will view them, that there are at least a couple of PR66s in there.
Thankfully I'm dealing with relatively inexpensive sets because, of course, the ones not worth submitting are not worth much
of anything on Ebay or elsewhere. I just have to hope that I don't buy any more "No return" pieces of junk like the last much
heralded sets were.
I'm still convinced that the British Mint has a Supervisor of Carbon Spot Placement that determines-not IF the set will
be spotted -but exactly where the spots will be placed.
"'Ow about on the tip of the queen's nose this time Fartheringham?" "C'mon chappie, we did that on the Penny!
Let's try the reverse field. Mayke it look like a cannon ball coming into the sails"
Finally I had a breakthrough on photography this morning. When I want to show the full color of a coin I have to tilt
it slightly which, of course, throws the coin out of focus.
This morning my voice teacher suggested that "Hey Bud! If you have to tilt the coin, why not tilt the bloody camera too?"
So, La, Ti, Do....
No,no- the kids and the cat are all right honey.
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.
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Sage advice, but that's not stopping me from teaching my pig how to fly.
Nice looking Farthing. I love angry looking birds.
Very nice coins by the way!
The designers chose the wren believing it to be Britain's smallest bird but in fact it isn't. Edward VIII abdicated before he could give the go ahead for the design but it was addopted for his brother George VI's coins anyway.