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Unc. details, rim damage; tough to get anything by the grading services these days. Otherwise MS67...
Environmental damage. They're getting tough at NGC and PCGS on coins with any problems. You have a good shot at NNC, though....
Just got this one back from grading, another purple holder. Do copper coins ever get successfully conserved with surfaces like this? [IMG][IMG]
It looks like a solid 63 plus to me, lots of eye appeal. Technical grading is like theoretical studies, a lot more relevant to the classroom than...
His scholarship is excellent; I have his book on coin grading with pictures; various industry experts are quoted highly recommending the book....
I have no idea who removed the spot (assuming that NGC is certain on this). I almost never touch the surfaces of a coin.
So they will remove spots on copper coins? I had this other 1859 Indian cent that graded MS64, but had a reverse spot so was hard to sell;...
OK, they did specify obverse spot removal, I guess it's ok when they remove copper spots from gold coins that leave shadows of the former spots...
I recently had this shockaroo from NGC; an 1859 Indian cent I figured around MS63 that graded as a spot removed coin: NGC cert. number for image,...
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And I have never understood the rip off mentality; frankly there comes a day of reckoning, people do reap what they sow, either in this life or...
Or Scott Travers' books, I have read a few. Some have good points and he frankly did recommend coins as an investment in a number of categories...
There are what one may call "worse case" scenarios and many in between. I have found that case studies rather than speaking in generalities, "buy...
BTW, he never asked me for advice. And the common denominator on many who lose big on "investments" is a subversive type of sales by those who...
I have come to the conclusion that without many specific examples of success and failure in any given field, broad principles or theories become...
Another thought on the topic of coins as investments; it is interesting that some claim pure motives, i.e. they only bought coins that they liked,...
The big week of the ANA coming up....excitement in the air and who knows what else? Personally I will not be buying anything. The sellers have...
Get certified if a rare variety because unless you get the rare expert with $$ who wants to pay market value you likely will not get it. The coin...
I sent out a couple old World coins to get certified at NGC a couple of weeks ago, one was a 1689 "Wildman" from the German republic, it graded...
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