Ok I know have a lot to learn. So elaborate.
OK I will show you a Merc that was value graded. ICG Graded this VG10. Coin was cleaned at some point as the toning, color, and slight hairlined...
Great point here.
Nice Trade $! And I like the surfaces on the Indian.
That's not nonsense, that's facts. That is why the TPG's are in business. It wasn't a compliment, but it wasn't an insult either; simply just an...
You've said this more than once though- the coins that "we collect". Who's "we"? And this is just facts. I know it, you know it, everybody knows...
Another thing a lot of folks have trouble grasping is that the TPG's value or appraise a coin by what they think it will sell for in the...
This is definitely a fact that PCGS and even NGC sometimes gives key dates a "bump"of a few points. +1. No further comment required. I like how...
I'm a sucker for Key Mercs with fully original skin....... This (almost) matches my dark 1921 P, just not quite enough glossy blackness in the...
You're wrong. NGC is the toughest on key Mercs and many key date coins in general. Obviously, they have their share of shenanigans, but nowhere...
Say it louder, so LeHigh can hear. :rolleyes:;)
Everybody knows Typecoin needs to take a chill pill. But that doesn't mean you should bash him or disregard his knowledge based on your...
Because the infallible folks at PCGS felt the washed out, stripped surface was market acceptable. If this were cracked and sent to NGC it would...
I'm not picking fights I'm trying to get to the bottom of this.
Get your popcorn, Typecoin- this is gonna be good.
Never, but I've known a lot of YN's that have, and can hold their own with the best of us in regards to knowledge. I can say I've learned a lot...
But, the cleaning does negatively affect the value, details grade or not.
Good deal.
I can agree- buying and selling gives one experience but again, here we go with your broad, sweeping statements LeHigh. What about all the young...
I'm not overreacting. Your making a broad, sweeping statement that all straight graded coins are problem free and this is simply not the case.
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