Cleaning coins is not illegal. Intentionally omitting the fact that you cleaned them when selling with the intent of boosting resale value is the...
If it is the seller I am thinking of, he juices his photos and lies about the depth of the mirrors. People fall for it. It is arguably fraud as...
“Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge...
You know it is bad to clean coins. Yet you do so anyway. There can only be one explanation: you are intentionally doing it with the hope that...
So you are deceiving your buyers into thinking they are getting a bright BU coin. That does not mean cleaned coins are worth multiples of...
For me, it was the entire culture surrounding US coins that made me sell out. “Want me to take your coin seriously? Then it must be slabbed.”...
It is probably a problem-free AU, and the seller is intentionally using deceptive pics to make it look nicer than it actually is. The buyer is...
Still not seeing proof. Keep trying
not at all. They are both equally unprotected and thus both show the first signs of circulation wear
This is one of my fears. As a result, I regularly back up my files and keep the backup somewhere else. That way if something happens to one I...
Depending on the severity of the improper cleaning, the value can be knocked down anywhere from 25% to 75%.
I still find it amusing that the holders are the driving forces behind the values. Exact same coin, vastly different values... The coins...
The effect you are referring to is when the edge hits the surface of the coin at an angle. However, if the impacting coin is roughly perpendicular...
In case it is difficult to see. All of the other damaged areas have all of the hallmarks of coin-on-coin reeding damage. It seems like a stretch...
These images confirm that it is just reed marks. In each pair of marks, the center ones are the deepest, which is consistent with the curvature of...
They undergraded this bustie and overgraded your other one. I guess it averages out ;)
For high-grade coins sure. They get the best holder I can get for them. For circulated raw coins, they get a 2x2 PVC-free flip or paper envelope....
In my last coin dream I was able to buy a huge collection for exceptionally rare Chinese coins for pennies on the dollar at a garage sale or...
Because the other possibilities are so remote in probability considering the evidence that they are not even worth considering. See that? Probably...
Check out the temple and the cheek right under the eye. You are clearly seeing what you want to see
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