The point I was trying to get across is that, at least in my eyes, it seems as if people are calling the gross over-grading of the TPGs - market...
Again, this line of thinking is what I see as a large part of the problem. And I'm not trying to pick on you here, I'm merely trying to point...
All one has to do is ask yourself a simple question ? Where does the majority of a the metal on a coin end up ? Answer, it ends up in the central...
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, and if I am then please correct me. But based on your comments it sounds like you are thinking that it is being...
Definitely not a minority of one as there are many others who know the same thing I do, but definitely a minority - we readily agree on that. But...
I would not call it more pronounced, I would call it more distorted. As I have explained many times, the quality of luster is an actual...
Typically that specifically depends on what his return policy is. Some will allow a return, others will not, depending on what his policy states....
That helps a lot. From what I can see now, all the lines in the fields on the right side of the obv, from mid thigh to ear, I do believe the coin...
That merely helps to confuse the issue. Ya see, there many different types of luster - but all of them will cartwheel around the coin as the coin...
:D That will no doubt make his day :)
We shall have to continue to agree to disagree.
Not sure if you realize it or not, but for those who are not aware of it, Insider is the one who wrote the article. And it should come as no...
Let me put it this way, there are millions of coins with light scratches just like the ones on your coin that have been cleanly graded and slabbed...
A few comments on the subject of mint products for collectors. If you read the article they talk about the market for these mint products...
In almost all other colonial mints they were, but in Potosi they were not.
My guess, the coin had a major planchet flaw located where the break is. But it was fine, it held together without failing, apparently for some...
Try and re-post your link Steve, that one doesn't work.
I'm reasonably certain that they realized, too late, what it was that the printed pop reports proved they were doing. So they stopped printing...
You're gonna need a little dog to find out ;)
Some of the best graders on the planet work for ICG. Unfortunately, just like it is with all the other TPGs, they are forced to grade coins the...
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