the ration tokens are superb,do you have any to spare? i have two blue tokens but i have never seen the red.
they look fine to me, i may be wrong but the top one may be the fabled widows mite of biblical legend. but i may be wrong as i don't really...
slabbing coins appears to be a cultural thing, over here 99.9% of serious collectors and dealers do no slab coins per se, and gloves are a...
thanks doug, i always wear white cotton gloves when handling my coins. i am certainly not an amateur and have been using them for the past 48...
so this photo from the ngc grading room doesn't show what a scam it is? the guy is clearly handling a coin without using gloves and regardless of...
for british coin grading i strongly recommend this book.......................... [ATTACH]
self grading is part and parcel and the fun of coin collecting, it is first and foremost a hobby and when one gets to concentrating more on the...
you are correct dutchman, they were used as crowns because of the shortage of imperial coinage.
the question was about the shape of the coins being difficult shapes and how would they fit into a slab!!!
it was a genuine question, how would those coins be slabbed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! get from up your own arse
3, 2, 1 the first coin has quite a lot of haze in the reverse field so it would be fine, the second i would grade at vf and the third would be xf.
and how would you entomb these coins from the english civil war?? [ATTACH]
i have been grading my own coins for 48 years, and without wishing to sound boastful i am quite good at it, i go to auctions quite regularly in my...
i'm not against grading, i grade all of my coins, i do it myself and am very adept at it, as for slabbing, it is an american thing that will never...
and as it is an open forum i am entitled to my opinion!!
looks like a funeral parlour with all the plastic coffins......................coins are nice though shame about the slabs
and why is that so crucial???????????????
i would doubt that very much, to say that one person has done more for coin collecting as a hobby is truly absurd. every collector has done...
over here in the uk slabbed coins are very rarely seen at auction, we tend to look at the coins mintage and general appearance rather than pay...
why is it that american collectors are so hung up on slabs and grades? what i see is a nice 100 years old bulgarian gold coin which would look...
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