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Thank you for this. As good as coin photography has gotten in the last twenty years, you still need to see the coin in hand. Photos often overlook carbon flecks, and hairlines. Coins which have been … (View Post)

Thanks for that, Tom. Truthteller explained to me in detail that the light purple toning on silver coins was one of the easier way to artificially tone one of them. He had a chemistry degree and once… (View Post)

When I see something like this, I'm reminded of the guy who paid a fortune for a 1953 S MS 66 Full Bell Franklin Half, which was the finest known of it's date and mint at the time, only to have anoth… (View Post)

AI is as good as the variables that are programmed into it. (View Post)

The carbon flecks are okay if they are buried somewhere on the coin so you have to look very closely to see them, otherwise, a hard pass. (View Post)