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Yup, Abe reportedly did have another ear very similar to this one, only backward, on the other side of his head. 

I think Kurt's post was at least partially written in sarcasm.

Obsess much?

Hell hath no fury like a Laura spurned.

On the same order on which I bought your “Proofs of“ book, I ordered the Morgan and Walker book at letter ‘c’.

Other than some slight percentage quibbles in the commercial grading distribution (lower eye appeal with higher strike) I can find very little here with which to disagree. Some people can remain technical grading “nick pickers” if that is their wish, but they only become all the more irrelevant as each month passes and more enter graveyards.

Hell hath no fury like a Laura spurned.

The vast majority are impact damage and not valuable at all.

Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are
You got your
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven
Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose
Roll up yer window and hold your nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory
You got your
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
And it's stinkin' to high heaven
Yeah you got your dead cat and you got your dead dog
On a moonlight night you got your dead toad frog
Got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they're gonna make you swoon
You got your
Dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven
C'mon stink
You got it
It's dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven
All over the road, technicolor man
Oh, you got pollution
It's dead, it's in the middle
And it's stinkin' to high, high heaven

Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are
You got your
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven
Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose
Roll up yer window and hold your nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory
You got your
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
And it's stinkin' to high heaven
Yeah you got your dead cat and you got your dead dog
On a moonlight night you got your dead toad frog
Got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they're gonna make you swoon
You got your
Dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven
C'mon stink
You got it
It's dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven
All over the road, technicolor man
Oh, you got pollution
It's dead, it's in the middle
And it's stinkin' to high, high heaven

And since the OP is who he is, we can expect him to “find” another one any day now. 

I’m pugnacious, not stupid.

In this case, all of the important words are identical; only the "DOS" and "DO" are different. Shall we "dos y do"?

And since the OP is who he is, we can expect him to “find” another one any day now. 

Quite possibly among the cadre that defines “we” for them. I like reading stuff from “da Joisey broad”. She is my source for rude comment vocabulary.  Rumor has it she has PCGS and CAC tattoos in places I never wanna see.

Ah yes, well, self-awareness is a key step on the way to enlightenment. 

With a SLIGHTLY different focus, I’ve been noticing this and talking about it for years now. The Internet coin hobby, and the major conventions coin hobby, barely know a thing about each other. ANA leadership types pay lip service to wanting the Internet division to be part of ANA, but they demonstrate repeatedly they know nothing about the Internet crowd. And if this, and the other message boards, are any indication, the Internet crowd knows next to nothing about the major show crowd either. Both “divisions” are ignorant of the other, and frankly, that bites. It doesn’t need to be that way but it is.
Of course, trying to imagine Cliff Mishler or Jeff Garrett, or even Joe Boling dealing with RichieRich2020 or Quintus Arrias without suffering a blow-out aneurism is a mind bender. 

IMHO, this is just a case of "Do As I say, NOT AS I DO."   Case in point,  a certain medium grade MS $20 with "exceptional color" with the "right" ownership and story.  

The horror... the horror.

Well, that's Laura being Laura, and a whole year of conversations all its own.  Laura isn't Sicilian, but she thinks like a Sicilian. "One day I will come to you for a favor, and you must do this favor for me..."

Surely supply and demand have a large role, no? Market grading is based on the completely sensible idea that the higher graded coin, of the same type, date, and mintmark, should always be worth more in the market than a lower graded coin. That's so intuitively correct that I can scarcely imagine anyone disputing it. And yes, I have seen "lowball" sets. More lunacy, in my opinion.

The “other” fact that this thread reminded me of is the utter folly of trying to guess grades via photographs. Coins are three dimensional objects that need to be seen and judged in all three dimensions, along with proper light. I don’t know why I continue to get suckered into talking about coin grades from photos. It’s not real.

Authentication will (not “might”, “will”) require documentary evidence from the United States Mint of the type that @RWB does with his archive searching. And NOBODY else will do it for you. You have the personal (YOU, as an individual, not somebody else) duty to do that research. Get hopping. No grading firm will do it, and neither will the United States Mint. It’s all you, pal. Nobody else. 

I just realized that while “acid wash” is not a numismatic term, “acid dip” comes close to being one. The more precise terminology is an “acid and thiourea dip”, similar to EZest, but that’s not the only formulation.  I’ve never used EZest but I have used a very different formula that uses a much less harsh acid with thiourea.

I again disagree, and strongly. Why? Because the term and the very concept of "FIRST SIGNS OF THE LOSS OF ORIGINAL SURFACE" is extraordinarily ill-defined. Some would interpret that to include contact marks, although that would not be part of the industry's most widely held definition. I might interpret that to include the first whiff of toning, and frankly, I do. The color can't change if the surface hasn't. I understand the physics of color, dichroic and otherwise. The first task of understanding anything is to have a mutually agreed upon definition of terms, and this hobby has sucked, truly sucked, at teaching those to our newbies.