Howdy Andreea - Here's the thing about fingerprints - when they are fresh they can be safely removed. But if they are more than a week or two...
You can try but I wouldn't bother. I agree that it's already been dipped, and harshly cleaned, mechanically, on top of that. So no matter what you...
That's pretty much the answer to your question Kurt. But I would add a couple of things. One of them is that about the only time you really need...
It's pretty simple, money. They needed to boost submission numbers or risk going out of business. And the best way to do that was to loosen...
Primarily because xylene doesn't cause the problem with copper that acetone often does. I've been warning people on this forum, and others, about...
I see :rolleyes: OK, let's do it this way. These are the grand totals of PCGS population numbers - covering all coins, all denominations, all...
I readily agree that acetone is known for sometimes resulting in the coins turning weird or odd colors when it is used on copper. That said I'm...
Did you read the thread ? The emails you request ARE being sent to you by CT. But you're not getting them because your email provider is blocking...
Yeah, pretty sure. The whole point of the index is to track the rise and fall of the same 3000 coins over many years. But don't take my word for...
Ahhhh - same old same old - the same lame excuses used over and over again to try and explain away what has really happened. Hopefully you, with...
Put much time into it anymore ? All they do is track the values of a given group of coins and then chart it. There is no time required to be put...
Horse puckey ! The huge increases in coins graded 70 is for one reason and one reason only - the TPGs loosening their grading standards to the...
And here's the Key Dates and Rarities index for the last 3 years - [IMG] And the last 10 years - [IMG] When even they go down like...
Just remember that coin dealers are no different than other people, some are really great guys and some are jerks. So don't judge them all by just...
LOL ! Now that's what I call voting :D
Both of you, check that, ALL of you, trust me on this - there are times, a lot more than I care to admit to, that I feel like grabbing people by...
Would you be surprised to learn that there was a time not so long ago that those percentages were but a tiny, tiny, fraction of what they are now...
Hmmm - I wonder if folks would like your avatar as a cute fuzzy bunny, or maybe a Minion ? Anybody care to vote on that ????? :smuggrin:
In a lot of cases that is what they do. And people pay them because they don't know how to even use those things. In other cases they do other...
True, Sam knows more about moderns than most folks do. But it still depends on what you want to know.
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