Thanks for the response. There are buyers available of smaller quantities, like the fellow at the flea market. My concern is that those who have...
I've been reading Q. David Bowers' book on $20s. He said about the same thing. At the shows it is very hard to find nice material, or...
I may luck out with the Saint. It was not that deep though it extended a fair distance on the edge of the coin. It is also not a recent scratch...
So dealers get banned from submitting coins to the two major TPGs and from the ANA. It must be a difficult position to be in when you go to coin...
It's hard to figure value when dealing with whizzed or damaged coins. The question is always going to be how collectable a coin is? Does the...
I just had an 1836 bust half dollar come back from PCGS as "surface smoothed", I thought it had been whizzed. This is a new one on me.
From the responses here I have not seen that lasering stands out as a big no-no, or a significant ethical issue. One dealer indicated that he had...
I have a number of these as a result of not buying smartly. I'm wondering what they are worth or where the marketplace may be for the coins if...
I kind of doubt his/her feelings were hurt or that there was significant loss as a result. Those who a) do not play by the rules, and b) fail to...
Thanks for reporting this and getting the items yanked. Someone was likely going to be ripped off. The problem with fraud in general, no matter...
There is a metals dealer at a nearby flea market that buys silverplate for about $4 a pound. I have seen a fair amount of silverplate around,...
People need to get fully informed as to their rights in these situations and Coin Talk and other sites help do this. It used to be people were...
Thanks for your expert explanation, it is why you are a true numismatist. My guess is that there are a lot of lasered coins out there. I spoke...
There are a number of these strategies which are possibly limitless employed by less than scrupulous outfits that buy and sell coins and precious...
Thanks for the replies to this query. The counterfeits can be very tricky to identify as well as the problem coins. But the admonition to never...
Apparently not carefully enough. Sometimes we rely on the analysis and expertise of others who do their best to describe the condition of the...
I bought an early $5 gold coin once with a one month return privalege. I ran it through NGC on the express tier and got it back in the required...
Thanks. In order of coin damage I suppose it is up there with "tooled". I had PCGS call a gold coin that, but NGC called it cleaned. So you...
Does anyone know how to identify lasered gold coins? I have heard from a couple of dealers about when this is done (to make hairline scatches...
I have bought two of these recently--one a Bust Half that otherwise looks fully BU, and a Seated dime, that also looks BU. Subsequently, more...
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