I thought I had read that there were no good ways to conserve proofs. Even acetone. Not true? How long of a soak before the wash?
Maybe I'll send it to NGC and see if they body bag it or give it a real grade. Wonder what the lowest grade for a proof in their history is.. :)
Guys, picked this up from one of my dealers today for $100. It looked proof, but was in pretty rough shape. As I was looking at it, the dealer...
Funny you say that.. I saw a guy bring in 4 presidential dollars to sell as gold too. The dealer says, "Go spend them. They aren't gold." His...
Better guess before the 100 are gone.. I'll go with 72. Thanks!
I hear you. I was on vacation in Texas and stopped by a "Bullion Exchange" that advertises selling/buying PCGS slabs etc... Nobody was in the...
Basically, yes. To you, you'll always know that coin graded MS6x at NGC/PCGS. If you want to sell it, you can include a photo of the top of the...
That was quite fun. Thanks!
Guys, I've always sort of chuckled when I saw a coin described as "inverted s" because.. well.. you flip an S and what you have is an S.....
Saw about 52 slabbed coins on ebid.net that were on average about $2000 coins (up to $40k) that were being bid at 99cents start with no reserve...
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Saw this recently.. any thoughts as to what can do this to a hologram other than opening it up and scraping it? Noting the grade, it seems odd to...
Coinmaster opened a new thread for that: http://www.cointalk.com/t189988/
Thanks to all! Didn't figure there was a chance, but maybe I have a future in Vegas now.. "pick a number between 1 and 10." "3." "Wrong."...
Had a 1850's quarter with nice luster come back as AU58 with damage like that. Apples-oranges, sure, but hoping you didn't get the same deal.
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Same here!
Good idea. Peter was kind enough to shift this to Coin Chat.
Thinking about opening up a coin shop as I get closer to retiring. Any thoughts about the benefits of starting up an LLC now while still building...
Guys, Saw on craigslist that a guy wanted to trade some fairly rare slabbed CC Morgan Silver dollars for silver coins. I wrote him back asking...
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