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If you're familiar with the term synesthesia, I watched Dino Valente and QuickSilver at the Fillmore one night in late 19??. The notes were liquid and plastic and everyone was "in tune"… (View Post)

That's well-encrusted gunk. Rather than a fast rinse in acetone, put an inch of the liquid in a coffee cup, put in the coin, cover the top (upside-down saucer?) and let the coin soak overnight. … (View Post)

The market rarely grades AU58+ coins as much or more than MS63, so of course there are also AU61's and AU62's. The market occasionally grades AU59 coins AU64 I guess a 59+ could be a 66. Yo… (View Post)

You weren't there. I was. The Forum wasn't even a gleam in @homerunhall's eye. This has not been, at any time since I started collecting again in 1972, considered "exceptional&quo… (View Post)

I was better at that in 1983 >:) Abe Kossoff, who introduced me to coin doctoring, could do better than that in 1953 (View Post)