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It looks like that because that's exactly what happened - someone "stamped a penny into the quarter", using some tool that applied considerable force - enough force to bend and squash the q… (View Post)

My collecting interests are extremely broad - I collect local and foreign, ancient mediaeval and modern. It's impossible for me to get "bored with it", since it's all so different. I could … (View Post)

Museums would never entrap and entomb an artifact inside a plastic coffin where people could never examine it - for the museum mindset, the whole point of holding artifacts is so that professional ex… (View Post)

The "best counterfeit coins in my collection" are, obviously, the ones I don't know are counterfeit - they've fooled everybody. I've got about 14,500 coins in my collection and only 41 of t… (View Post)

Given that the vast majority of people that are doing this collecting are people that we would label as "casual collectors" or "not serious", I would surmise that the answer would… (View Post)