As a general rule there 4 acceptable ways, methods of properly cleaning coins. 1 - distilled water 2 - acetone 3 - xylene 4 - coin dip All of...
I seem to recall from some years ago a thread or post where somebody actually collected those things. So to answer your question there probably...
It's just another example of misinformation and bad information that is found so often in today's media. And if you give it a week or two that...
There's a few different ways of looking at it. One would be it's an advertising technique to use that adjective, merely an example of the same...
There's lots of them, that one is just the most recent, and it only touches on a few things. Use the search function, you'll find more threads...
Fair warning though folks - dipping coins is NOT something you wanna mess with if you have no experience at doing it ! It is extremely easy to...
Everybody has different ideas about that. Some use acetone, some use concoctions they mix up themselves. But my preference was always distilled...
I just gave you 2 days to edit the post :)
Being familiar with how they grade is a completely different thing than knowing what the standards are that they use and follow ! Anyone who...
The very first thing that everyone needs to learn - is what coins that have not been harshly cleaned are supposed to look like ! And this includes...
It won't hurt ya, tens of millions of coins have been dipped with bare hands. But I can see by your later post that you kinda figured that out....
Learning how to correctly identify harshly cleaned coins is one of the hardest things there is to do in numismatics. It requires a great deal of...
It's a good place to start, but not for understanding how PCGS grades coins ! I say that because PCGS has never, ever, used or followed ANA...
Hmmmm - not sure if that qualifies as a single helix, a double helix, or a semi-solid helix :D What I do know is I can't even imagine trying to...
My hat's off to ya John ! :) I think your work, effort, and dedication is unrivaled ;)
Kudos for that one Kurt ! I like it, and agree that is one of the valid criteria for the definition. Me, I used to keep handwritten notebooks...
Now just imagine what that luster might have, and probably would have, looked like had the coin not slipped out of the tweezers. Given what you do...
If you mean one of these - [IMG] No, if you leave it as is it will not be OK. As I said in my initial post, there can be no cardboard or...
I think you're misunderstanding a bit. All told I think there are 9 different grading criteria. I'd have to write them all out to make sure but...
Are you getting the point I've been trying to make ? It's not just the word numismatist - it's the majority of all words. For example, ask a 100...
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