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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I learned that many American coin collectors are in the bizarre habit of paying third parties to entomb their perfectly good coins inside giant slabs of non-biodegradable plastic. Maybe not 'blown away', but 'delighted' by the great sense of humor of so many forum members, such as the quote above from Sap.  I had no idea how many varieties of coins exist and how desired many of them are ... and how some are not desired. How much comic book collecting has borrowed from coin collecting. How sneaky and devious some of the fraudsters can be - but not if I check here first!  Great question Mayflower2020!Edited by dd27
08/01/2016 7:24 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Finn... I have a silver India princly states that I mistook for an ancient lol.
Pm me if you're interested
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The fact that slabs can be so easily faked.
The optically variable color print labelling that appears on slabs is also used for fake drug labelling.
The fake packaging contains fake, poorly made or under strenth drugs. Very dangerous. That is one of the reasons why some of the blister packaged drugs available from our pharmacist have to be verified, then re sold in generic packging.
A lot of this sort of print fakery for drugs originates in India.
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08/01/2016 8:42 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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There are some great responses here so far. I have already started looking up a few of them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The hike in relative value of rare coins.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am frequently blown away with the ability of the world coin forum members to identify "anything"* -- even with bad photographs.
* That includes buttons and gaming tokens made to look like coins.
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Pillar of the Community
Norway
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Too much to sum up, really. Some highlights are:
- the incredible amount of fake coins and bullion that's around. Even just simple coins that don't seem to have much collecting value are faked now.
- how Americans are getting more and more into slabbed (entombed, as Sap says) coins and how many fake slabs there are.
- same goes for the fascination with pre-produced albums like Dansco makes them.
- the art of coin roll hunting (really not something we do around here. We just buy coin lots by the kilo).
- lots of ways to clean coins and even more reasons why I shouldn't use my knowledge.
and so on, and so on...
oh and one more thing: that I really need to buy me a good and large monitor screen.
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08/02/2016 3:15 pm
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 United States
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I am frequently blown away with the ability of the world coin forum members to identify "anything"* -- even with bad photographs. Agreed. I would specifically mention BobL in this regard. He is the only one on CCF for whom I have used the "blown away" emoji.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This XRF? "XRF (X-ray fluorescence) is a non-destructive analytical technique used to determine the elemental composition of materials. XRF analyzers determine the chemistry of a sample by measuring the fluorescent (or secondary) X-ray emitted from a sample when it is excited by a primary X-ray source." https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/...hnology.htmlEdited by dd27
08/02/2016 10:38 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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Agree this XRF technology is amazing.
The handheld devices are sometimes called Positive Material Identification (PMI) Gun.
The problem for most coin collectors is that they are far from cheap!!
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12851 Posts |
Mind blown by...
o What an absolute SCIENCE some folks have made of coin photography. Just amazing.
o How deep US paper money collecting can go.
o How much there is to learn about this hobby and what a valuable resource CCF is to help with that!
o How many fly-by new members there are asking if a beat up 1984 U.S. cent is retirement money. Then they disappear. I guess this really don't blow my mind.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How deep US paper money collecting can go Agreed. I have gotten lost in a plethora of paper money information in the past 6 months. It has swallowed up a ton of my free time. (and also a lot of my time one the clock at work) Edited by Mayflower2020
08/25/2016 09:57 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The sheer scale of CRHing still blows my mind. Also, the things that people put into coin rolls is amazing.
In addition to the Princely States, I should perhaps add that there are many countries and historical entities that I had no idea even existed until I started finding their coins. Guernsey, Jersey, New Hebrides, Niue, Cook Islands etc etc.... never even learned about them in high school or college history!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nothing. I already know everything.  Actually the thing that really always amazes me is how much some people know about coins. I mean all those little things that I just couldn't imagine trying to find out. |
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