That quote is taken from the Joel's Coins site.
I think you are going to have a very tough time selling that collection as a unit to anyone but a dealer like Littleton, or one of the others who...
You may be talking about electrotyping, which is the method used by many museums to make (properly marked) replicas of coins and other metal...
Sounds like you are talking about some expensive machinery so the answer to your question is probably that it wouldn't be cost effective. After...
The dealer is the one who came out ahead - she can just consider her $75,000 loss as a business expense related to her own $267,000 ripoff - a net...
Welcome to Coin Talk Ben. Can you say "overkill"? Since every State quarter prominently shows the name of the state, pictures are totally...
The Hong Kong Dollar was probably in Hong Kong recently - at the airport on its way from the mainland counterfeit factory. The "7" in the date...
You mean likethe stamp machines at the post officethe transit ticket machinesthe self-checkout lines at Home Depot, grocery stores and drug...
The older the fingerprint, the less chance that acetone will remove it. If you have had the coin for more than a year, don't waste your time, as...
One recent and one very old, but most of his 13 neutrals are really disguised negs. Still, 1 neutral every 7+ months while averaging more than...
Amen.
If you mean that you hope the mint will change to a plain rim, don't forget that the "Committee of 536" (aka Congress and the current prez) would...
Just a semantic quibble, but how do you "revive" an interest that never existed? Another quibble - how will producing new reverses eliminate the...
Yup, yup, yup.
Wow, no premium asked for the wrong planchet error! :p
Just a WAG, but is it possible that someone altered a genuine '43, the reprocessed it?
15 negs & 25 neutrals! No S/H stated. BTW my character counting program says he only used 30,465, in 6,450 words. <giggle>
The "Collector's Society" is what you pay to join in order to directly submit coins to PCGS. 10 to 1 the seller is an ignorant newbie.
Do you mean it would be objective? Actually, if it could be done, I think it would be just as subjective as any human TPG, just consistently so...
First Class mail for only $7.25. [IMG]
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