At the top of the front is has a copyright date of 1987 and states "Not associated with ANACS or any other certification service. On the back it...
Doug, outstanding explanation of the differences between the two scales. Thanks for posting it.
Actually no, they are not. They are just printing the label as requested by the persons submitting them for encapsulation. The fee they charged...
I bought a copy of this book when the collection was being sold at auction. I sold it some years later. It is a fabulous book.
Is there a LCS near where you live? If so, and he has a good selection of raw and graded gold coins look at coins of the same grade raw and...
I thought that my Liberty Seated type set was pretty much set until I found Gerry Fortin's web site on the dimes. As a result of that I learned...
The inclusion of a chop marked Trade dollar in my Liberty Seated type set is for that very reason. It will be a representative of why this coin...
You could take the gold piece to a goldsmith and he can carefully remove the excess solder but you will still have some residue of it left on the...
From the original post it seems that the robbers probably slim jimmed the door and got the dealers' home address from his registration slip in the...
On the way home from a trip to a coin show I noticed a car had been following me for quite some time. I was still over an hour from home and no...
He should send it back to NGC so they can update the label to Red/Green. An instant rarity. How many Red/Green MS-67 Lincoln cents do you know of?...
It looks like something a telemarketer might have packaged for sale at exorbitant prices.
Gerry Fortin's web book for Liberty Seated dimes states the 1876 is a common date but of the two reverses the Type I is common and the Type II is...
This is the 1876 dime I just ordered for my type set with a Type I reverse. Graded PCGS MS-64. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I love the 1876 dime and it has the Type II reverse. The Type I reverse was used from 1860 to 1878 and the Type II was used from 1876 to 1891. For...
Yes, they are exactly the same thing as countermarks/counterstamps. What the grading services are doing now is what they should have been doing...
It still is post mint damage. How would they even begin to know if the chop marks on the coin was punched in it over 100 years or just last week?...
I don't unless I am running short on cash and the coin is priced just about what I have left to spend. Most of the time after looking through all...
PCGS will print anything you want on their label for a price. They have no problem taking the extra fee from anyone who wants whatever they desire...
I want to include a slabbed chop marked Trade dollar in my Liberty Seated type set and have been seeing quite a few chop marked Trade dollars...
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