Fluorescent Light: No Flaw Can Hide
To introduce the subject of this column, let me quote from a recent article in Road & Track magazine about one of the fastest, most powerful and expensive super cars on earth built by Bugatti: “The final step for each newly assembled Chiron is a painstaking examination under 100 fluorescent lights. NO FLAW CAN HIDE.”
While I cannot take credit for the use of fluorescent light for coin examinations, as virtually its sole proponent for the last 40 years, when its value for both authentication and grading is eventually realized,
