To answer earlier questions, they replate cents so that they can put xf-au cents with corrosion or wear into sets like these and sell on shows...
I have some replated cents that I will shoot in a bit to compare.
Here are a couple pics of a corroded unc steel cent. Still has the luster in the fields but lots of corrosion. Hope these help. [ATTACH]...
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This is a good example of what I have said previously about light tents being good for proof coins, but not so great for others, because the...
I always like reading threads like this. Thanks Matt. So which do you think best represents the coin in hand. 1,2, or 3? I'm guessing the 1st...
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Pretty sure that is the photographers meathook
Both Pcgs and Ngc will put coins in the slab backwards if the reverse has exceptional toning, Deep mirror fields, that sort of thing. I did not...
We don't have a choice. They're all idiots.
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