No serious collector should be without a stereomicroscope -- it's just amazing what you can see that a loop can miss -- like metal flow, subtle RPM's, etc.
Just imagine how many of your coins came out of that very room which looks more like the back room of a Chinese restaurant than the sophistocated facility we've probably all envisioned!
Hey! My birthday is 7-18 and that's been guessed along with the 19th! Wow -- I'll just have to go with the 20th!! Happy Birthday to all you fellow Cancerians!!!!!
After it separates from the paper, place it between two tissues and then press it (in the tissue) for a few hours under a book to prevent it from curling up!
"With regards to the Linc cent 2009, i'm even more unimpressed. What i hope they would do for that would be to issue it with the original wheat reverse in the original alloy to mark it's 100th..."
And with a V.D.B. at the bottom!!!