Conservation is different. Restoration is repairing damage on the coin. In the event that a doctored coin is not detected by the graders, it is a...
A good point, but ignore restoration. Since that would improve a coin's eye appeal but render it ungradeable, it's not really comparable.
I have had this happen with coronation medals, but I quickly learned to tell via die markers which size they were for the types I was interested in.
Why should collectors learn the existing system when it is flawed and confusing? Can you think of another collectible market where you can have...
I hadn't considered this, but that's a great observation. I'm going to stick with manual focus; hopefully the DR-6 will allow me to do that much...
I picked up a "like new" DR-6 right-angle viewer last night. Thanks all for the suggestions.
Leave them raw.
Break the coins out and give them a long soak in acetone.
I don't disagree with you. That is definitely one way of doing it, however, if new slabs dropped the grade prefixes it would be obvious that the...
Case in point. Stuck on wear and standards being infallible (means incapable of being wrong since you seem confused). Wear is not special! Get...
I agree with the above suggestions, though adding more finalizers will add to cost. I'm sure they have weighed the cost of staff versus fixing...
It's a circular argument many of the old timers here go to again and again. Essentially that "the standard is correct because it is the standard."...
I thought of that medal when I first saw the WWI commem design as well, but I think any similarity is purely coincidental.
Apples and oranges. He's talking about the numismatic definition of damage. I'm talking about the dictionary definition of damage - physical harm...
Yes, of course. I'm not talking about wear detailing a coin. Details due to damage is for abnormal non wear-and-tear damage. Any collectible...
Yeah based on the above posts I was already checking out the DR-6. Looks like I could probably get this to work with a little rearranging....
Only in numismatics do you have the bizzare notion that rubbing something until it wears away is somehow not damaging to the object. But of...
Anyone who says there are two scales is absolutely, unquestionably correct. When an MS coin gets rub it drops off of the 60-70 scale and enters...
The viewfinder indicator light points are very interesting. Since I can't really see the viewfinder well from my setup (the camera is very high...
I use a Beseler CS-14 for my copy stand. It's fairly bulky and I have it on a very sturdy PA rack. The setup doesn't really allow me to be able to...
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