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Re: OK, how do you detect putty, tooling, etc on coins?
Putty on a coin is used to fill in a nick, mill mark, etc. usually on a focal point of the coin, such as the cheek. When I have seen coins that have been puttied, it is usually on only one mark where that one mark might make the difference in receiving a higher grade. Although well done jobs can be very difficult to… -
Re: For the Labor Day holiday... Post a Coin you had to Work Hard to get.
<< <i> << <i>To get the piece pictured below, I had to do the following: 1) Go to college and study Mechanical Engineering. 2) Work for 15 years doing computer graphics programming. 3) Write my own digital sculpting/engraving program. 4) Take my life savings and purchase a commercial (industrial) workshop space, a CNC… -
Re: Anyone giving or receiving any Numismatic gifts this year??
Two years ago when my wife and I were driving to my parents' house we stopped at a coin shop 100 miles from our destination. I was looking at Liberty Nickels, Barber Dimes, and very worn Seated Liberty coins. I spotted a nice NGC slabbed $20 Liberty and told her, jokingly, that that is what she should buy me for Christmas.… -
Re: Best Dodger pitcher ever? Koufax or Kershaw
Sandy Koufax’s rookie season was 1955. The Dodgers won the World Series that year. He was a spot starter who also pitched out of the bullpen from 1955-57 (3 seasons). Over that three year span, he starts 28 games and pitches to a four ERA. In 1958, he becomes a full time starter. Some of that was in part because he was… -
Re: I have been invited to play in a poker game ........update!
<< <i>I don't know much about poker, but I can spot a hustle a mile away. I suspect that this is a regularly scheduled game for most of those guys, and every time they invite one or a few "new fish" to the game. They use MJ as a lure. That way they have a continuous supply of fresh money coming in to have some fun with. I… -
Re: Does it do any good to contact the post office about a Registered Mail package?
And that's the maddening part of Registered. It may or may not be sitting in the same spot for 6 days (now 7), but being as it only needs to go 600 miles from start to finish, and it's day 11, it damn sure's sitting SOMEWHERE. Why must it sit at all? Just move the thing along. It conjures up mental images of postal… -
FSH: 2005-P Marshall Dollar NGC MS70, 2002-S SAC PCGS PR69 DCAM, NGC Mercs, counterstamp,medals, SAE
I accept Paypal, money order, or check. PM if interested. Certified Coins 1941-S NGC MS64 Mercury Dime- Beautiful bronze-purple rim toning $25 1945-D NGC MS65 Mercury Dime- Mostly White with booming luster $23 1976-S NGC PF69 Cameo silver Quarter -In old NGC holder, some haze $15 2002-S PCGS PR69 DCAM Sacagawea Dollar $60… -
Re: Zits
Small spots which may be singular or clusters are usually due to rusted dies. Being ferrous, they rapidly rust if left exposed to the air and so traditionally were stored in tubs of animal fat. They are still stored in a greased condition today. If a die is not stored under ideal conditions, the rust will form on the… -
It's always fun to find the unexpected...A toned Franklin thread
Let's face it - for the most part Franklins tone in icky shades of brown, grey, or even black. A few stunning mint set coins have toned unbelievalble colors when they resided in cardboard mintset holders covered with colored tissue paper of years. Finding attractively toned Franklins from 1959 forward is doubly hard.… -
Brand New Photo Setup! Check out my first pics and tell me what you think! (Lots of pictures of coo
Not too long ago, I realized I really needed a copy stand... as much as I love my little tripod, a copy stand simply is a better piece of equipment for keeping a camera steady and head-on a coin. So I finally found the stand I'd get with the help of K6AZ, a Testrite CS-2, which sells at B&H for about $75 shipped. I found…
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