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It’s been said before (not by me): once someone has a greysheet and buys certified coins below bid and sells them at ask, then they can be a...
The more investors who enter the hobby, the more inflated the prices get, and the bigger the bubble gets. It will burst in a generation or so when...
Do that with a gun, and you murder the value
Lightly-used vs brand new with manufacturing defect. I’d imagine this is important with collectible toys.
Guns. Books. Comic books. Anything where a grade can be improved by restoration, but the value is lower than “worse-grade” examples.
The original system was just G/VG/F/VF/EF/FDC. No numbers. No AU/UNC Not confusing at all. Only moderns are subjected to the numbers. The rest of...
This 1463 Firenze soldino arrived yesterday. I was expecting something along the size of a florin, but I got something the size of a hemidrachm....
How about this? Condition: a coin’s state of preservation. Grade: A numerical or symbolic notation to easily communicate the coin’s condition....
Probably a disk of scrap metal not from the mint
The breast and the right wall.
That’s typically the case
Trust me. The two massive hits looked MUCH worse in-hand.
There is enough evidence to show that she circulated. I grade her AU-58
What’s even more amazing is that he looked it up before he priced it. He must have looked on the wrong line or something
Likewise here is a OGH PCGS MS-63 FH I bought. I immediately sold it because of the damage on the obverse. However, this was an MS-65 quality coin...
I don’t think that’s it. I think it was to please whiny dealers who wanted their “pristine” coin to get an inflated MS grade rather than a...
$35 from a We Buy Gold shop. :) 1889 S Morgan Dollar. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
There is a way, but it is so non-PC that it will never happen outside of dystopian novels
Looks AU
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