True, but good thing it's a forum - we can debate to find the truth. :)
I find that the internet in general is a great source of information. I Google all the time. However, IME at least, forums are the place to go to...
I have questions that I have answers to from my own logical imagination. Often times, however, I find that it's wrong, sometimes in a very...
That would make sense with notes - color is easier to identify at the corners than to pull out the notes and try and see what the notes read as,...
Why is centering so important for paper notes? Is it because it's rarer to see a paper note that has perfect centering, since the notes are...
I can see that point, but if the machines ever needed a rehauling... Though, the challenge with that would be waiting for the chance occurence...
But if round corners would yield a significant minimum increase in paper notes' durability (a big IF, since that's what I'm asking about), then...
I hear that's at least one reason why coins are round or circular - to last much longer, which probably became standardized by convention from...
I like how he ended that paragraph: "Beauty emphatically is skin deep on proof coins, and once it is gone, it does not come back."
I'm not sure if this PCGS linked article has been posted before, or mentioned in this long thread, but PCGS links to a book by an author who...
Meh... I'm not bothered by questioning authority, mostly because I'm simply curious as opposed to trying to pick a fight or whatever lol. And, if...
But I see it as a way to test the soundness and strength of the grading criteria itself. I try to "break" the system, sort of speak. Maybe a...
I know that the BGS, PSA, and other sports card grading companies split grades into four criteria, and then they offer an overall average grade....
What if the coin was left in an old album and it was left for folks to look and touch over many decades?
NGC means "Matte" Proof for the 1931 Proof coin in the table below, right? Otherwise, that'd be a sharp looking but poor surface example of that...
What if the reverse is the most attractive part? For example, many of the Canadian dollars have the same or similar recycled busts (many or most...
I should have clarified. I usually just ask a bunch of questions to lead into the "but then why is it that..." transitions lol. I ask if there...
PCGS states online that: A split grade may be assigned when there are significant differences in the obverse grade and reverse grade of the same...
Yes, I have it in hand. I had to edit the last post - there's some cartwheel luster on the coin overall, more so on the reverse of the coin than...
I used the rays as a macroscopic view example of the coin's microscopic level. The Rolex dial example is better. But the cartwheel luster effect...
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