MS70 is not a dip. It is meant to be used with some very light mechanical motion such as a Q-Tip being gently swabbed over the coin's surface. I...
A great deal all around! I would buy those GSA's @$150 all day long. The '32 quarter is highly suspect though but I would have taken a shot at it...
I think the coin took a hit, causing the one side of the coin to be depressed and wear-protected while the other side was bent out and subjected...
That was ny nickname for my girlfriend in high school (now my wife). "Thumper".
At first glance, I though "weak strike" but I am leaning toward glue being the culprit. Glue is an easy test, as others have said and...
I wonder if Kitco can predict the election while they are at it.
Very nice write up! Just look at all the copper that came off those coins as copper sulfide (I think. Chemistry in collage was a long way back.)...
No fiat currency in the history of mankind even survived? What make the dollar the exception? It's looking shakier and shakier out there every year.
I now have a terrible crick in my neck.
Wait until you make a $10,000.00 boo-boo. THAT kept me awake for a while!
I also call them "pop-outs". Barber coinage actually look kinda nice done like that.
I wouldn't loose a minutes sleep over it and move on. Hardly worth the shipping cost to send them back.
One more day like today and yesterday and I will agree with a rout. But it goes up just as fast when it goes up, that is.
Yup. The surfaces are not original.
Market XF45. I haven't enough experience with EAC grading to render an opinion but the EAC grade hasn't had much impact when I was selling.
A rout? I wouldn't exactly call a one day fall of 33¢ a rout.
I had a new customer pester me by phone all day today because he needed to buy PM's TODAY. He said tomorrow would be too late.....for all of us....
I always buy low and then sell high. I have seen a multitude of folks do the opposite.
Let's see what happens when the central banks run out of options, which is not so very far in the future.
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