That is neat!
Yes, and it was broken the day it was published. I thought you didn’t like broken systems? Oh wait, that would be inconvenient to your argument....
Not really. It is a ludicrous idea. The fact that your side of the argument is so deep in the TPG butt-kissing that you are willing to ignore all...
A lot of the eye-appealing AU-58s are disappearing into MS-63 slabs, at least for the pre-1878 series.
Lol Then counter it by saying when it was “graded.” But then you have to deal with the issue of coins toning/spotting in their holders. The...
You might call me a hardline “wear is wear” traditionalist, but I accepted roll/bag friction as being okay years ago before I was arguing with...
Might as well get rid of grades altogether because they would be completely arbitrary. Might as well just put “I value this coin $2000” on the...
Ideal grading should assign a number to a coin based on an objective set of standards, and an ideal market would assign a higher price to...
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cac-premium-and-pcgs-grade.339014/ This thread is relevant
I hadn’t yet looked at the second page, and I still have not looked at what he’s said.
It only undermines the argument that their motive was for regrades, not that there was not a motive at all.
I could tell without going to the next page that a firestorm with Baseball was kicked up. Not much else
There are tons of raw classic coins. There were many more raw classic coins 10 years ago. There were even more raw classic coins 25 years ago. I...
Hoo boy! You just attached a can of worms to a bottle rocket!!
I would not call Julius Caesar denarii “readily available.” Sure there are examples available at any given time (so they are not an absolute...
Thanks for sharing! I have a couple targets in mind :)
Looks like a metal detecting find with several scratches of varying severity, cleaned, and then artificially toned. Sorry for being critical, but...
Wow. Someone else goes on the ignore list
Looking at the closeups of the date, I see a bunch of parallel lines only at the top surface and not in the fields.
Pretty much all of my Roman/Greek coins fall into that category. They were impulse buys. :shy:
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