It’s been over a decade since I consigned coins to Heritage but at the time their standard fees were a 15% buyers premium and 5% sellers premium....
Heritage is one of the most respected coin auction houses in the world. You are a guy who doesn’t know the difference between a reserve price and...
$950
Typically, when you see this grade on a clean untoned coin, it represents a net grade for impaired luster due to overdipping.
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Then I’m at MS65
Nice coin, MS67?
I wanna say MS65, but I’m concerned about that big white spot at the back of the neck at the hairline. If that spot is on the holder, I say MS65,...
While I agree that it probably isn’t worth much, if the OPs coin is a gem grade full step Jefferson from the 70’s or 80’s it will have significant...
It feels smooth because the packaging is thick enough to make it feel smooth. That isn't any type of mint packaging I'm aware of and if it...
Why can't you take it out of the packaging and photograph the obverse? The photo is really small, but based on the quality of the reverse strike...
When did you buy that? Roosevelt Dimes have fallen off a cliff in recent years. If you bought this within the last year, I say $120.
Well, I know of Mark Feld who worked at NGC and he never made the claim that the TPGs loosen their grading standards. As for Skip, if he has...
Those numbers from PCGS are wrong. Are we supposed to believe that the number of gold coins graded MS69 jumped from 21 to 106,921 in the span of...
The only professional grader I know on these forums is Insider and he works for ICG which is a second tier TPG that doesn't offer a grade...
What is to stop you from selecting the most optimistically graded coin from today, and the most conservatively graded coin from yesteryear? In...
His use of the term "ratcheting" is simply a substitute of the term "gradeflation". It does not infer that he or I agree with the sentiment that...
If this were true, then I could post a group of ten coins with the same date/mm & grade and you could identify which coins were graded in the 90s...
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I look for all uncirculated coins, with nice looking prewar coins, at less than $4 per coin.
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