The obverse of the 1988 Olympic is stunning, but for an obverse-reverse pair on a single coin I prefer the 1999 Washington, which is course is...
It looks to be clearly a copy. The original pieces had periods on the obverse instead of stars and on the reverse there was not a canon that had...
There is a lot of excellent material in your post to chew on and I hope folks can read it and think about it all.
I doubt it.
The paper from the roll causes that toning.
I understand your points, medoraman, and agree that there should be a better way. There are some common issues for dealers at these shows and...
The 21st is Saturday, which is the last day of the show. If you go on the last day of the show you will find quite a few dealers have already...
You can bring whatever you like, but this show is an international show that is meant primarily for collectors of foreign coinage. The link for...
I don't know what your interests are, but you should be aware that this show is heavily slanted toward foreign coinage and that the FUN show (one...
Toning can bring out strong emotional responses from collectors so this is very much a case-by-case topic.
PCS? Consider it worse than an ungraded coin because you will not be able to examine it as closely as a raw coin and because others will wonder...
I agree with respect to the NGC coin likely being an AU58 the first time instead of an MS62 the second time. Perhaps it was the very clean fields...
A grade is a single data point in time and thus coins may not grade the same each time they are submitted. Depending upon what NGC thinks about...
The image is actually fairly tough to work with, but there appears to be high point rub going down Ms. Liberty's right leg (viewer's left). This...
AU AT.
I would have to disagree to an extent with those who believe that key dates are overpriced as long as we can define what "key date" means. In...
Folks, it's real! It's an O.112, which is an R1 die marriage. It has also been cleaned.
Just take out any old, circulated Wheat cent you have found in change and that deep brown color should be what old copper should look like.
Proof Franklin half dollars from 1953 are very commonly found with severe die polish. Below is one that I own in an old fattie NGC PF67 holder...
I like this idea, but now we have to make certain they don't go into Earth orbit and then burn up upon re-entry. Perhaps they should be aimed to...
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