There's several ways of doing it but one of the more common is to use a special metal tool that has a smooth and rounded surface. It pressed...
Saying that much is allowed. But further discussion of that specific subject, by anybody, is not allowed. So fair warning.
Yes. Pretty much the same way you do, but with a tweak here and there when it's called for. Over many years it's been my experience that the...
Uhhhh - no. I ran a real estate developer/general contractor company.
The answer to that is gonna depend on the personal taste of whoever is thinking about buying it. And since you can't ever know what their taste...
That's the thing about definitions - isn't it ? By your definition why wouldn't the Continental Currency and/or the Nova Constellatio Patterns,...
They often are. That said, I used to make my living, and a very good one, by being able to tell engineers when they were wrong. :)
The answer to that question would depend on how one defines "America's first coin". I would think that to qualify for that designation certain...
I gotta ask, where exactly are you seeing this condensation ? Can you describe its location ? Because I don't see anything that looks like...
It's a simple fact of life, there are good dealers, so-so dealers, and bad dealers. Just like there are good collectors, so-so collectors, and bad...
Now this not a modern coin, let alone a plated coin, but that really has little to do with it. What I'm going to show here is an example of what...
It was probably a glitch of some kind on their end - that they finally discovered and have now fixed.
I cannot speak to the authenticity of the token, but what we see on the obv is a rather severe lamination. Something I think would be fairly...
That's a good way of describing it. That "smoothed" look is the result of altered surfaces. In effect the area is "rubbed" to try and make the...
That dirt you're talkin about, it used to be rocks before it became dirt - and I'm waaaaay older than those rocks :p And yeah, gonna getcha for...
I wouldn't hazard a guess on the grade number they assigned, and I'm not even sure they used this designation but for this coin I'd call it...
These are some examples what the maker of Verdi-Care has had to say about heavy verdigris in the past....
:arghh: :oops: - that is something I was not aware of. :sorry:
I seriously disagree ! Now I'll grant you there's lots of coin roller damaged coins out there. But you'd have a better chance of winning 2...
You've apparently never seen coins in ICG slabs get upgraded by PCGS, and NGC. And yes, there have been many times that has happened. Would it...
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