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By Michael Fazzari
It’s almost 2008 and there is still no “little black box” to grade coins, but some have tried. This weekend, while looking through some old clippings, I came across an article about “The Expert.”
The subject of the article called to mind a joke I’d heard from a former associate, Charlie Hoskins. He used to say that the word “expert” came from two roots, “ex” meaning from or out of and “pert” a little drip under pressure. In this case, “The Expert” in the article was neither a drip nor a human. Read on.
About 20 years ago, one of the grading services developed an expensive gadget to grade coins called “The Expert.” Apparently, it was a video camera surrounded by a bank of high intensity lights set up to record the surface of a coin. The coin’s image was digitalized as each light flashed in sequence and the resulting image was stored in a computer. Read Full Story
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NumisMaster is a subscriber based online database which allows hobbyists to select and sort coin and paper money information to fit their individual collecting interests. This database comprises the content for every book Krause Publications has published in the Standard Catalog line of price guides for more than 50 years. Krause Publications is a division of F+W Publications, Cincinnati, Ohio.
