Apparently you don't understand one the most basic things there is - bag marks are NOT wear !
What you're reporting is pretty common actually. YES - you can pull a coin right out of a cash register, or your pocket, and that coin can be and...
The underlined portion of your quote is incorrect. Back then dies were polished in a machine just like they are today. The machines today are a...
They labeled it a business strike when they put UNC Details on the slab. If it had been a Proof, they would have put PF Details on the slab.
A coin is either a Proof or it isn't, and the presence of die polish lines, nor the lack of them, has anything to do with it. In regard to the...
Good timing :) Because it appears the market finally found a bottom and is heading the other way -...
Two or three days isn't gonna hurt anything. If ya left it in there for months it would probably start to corrode, but not in a few days. Here's...
Acetone has little to no effect on ordinary dirt and grime and that looks like what is on the token. In all honesty, you'd probably have better...
Correct. I would also add that anyone who does not have a personal saved copy of images posted using the Image icon, and you own that picture,...
The problem is there is absolutely NO WAY to distinguish one cause of wear from any other cause of wear. Or, when and where it occurred. If your...
You're correct, bag marks are NOT considered wear. But what you're forgetting or not even thinking about is that when coins are in bags, and those...
In almost all cases, yes it is the same. Ya see, the way I learned to interpret pictures was by looking at them, and then looking at the coin in...
It's true that not very many circulated in the hands of the general public. But that doesn't mean that the coins weren't in circulation. Once...
To the best of my knowledge, they were and still are all sonically sealed. And I suspect that's what you're seeing - not glue. But I suppose...
You are correct. But as I have said above the people sorting the GSA coins DID NOT know that. Nor did they know that the only way to identify if...
You are entitled to your opinion. But, one you learn to interpret pictures correctly, it's not all that difficult to determine if wear is present...
None of them are MS.
Maybe not. But if a coin is in a 65 slab and I think it's a 63, and they won't see it to me for 63 money - I simply walk away from that coin....
No, it doesn't mean that AT ALL ! What you have to understand is that it was beyond common even in the 1800's for banks to gather together coins...
I didn't offer any thoughts or opinions in this thread, I merely posted basic information about the TPGs. That said, no, my opinions of the TPGs...
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