Fairly common. And yeah I know that's probably not the kind of answer you want but that's about the only kind of answer you can get. There simply...
Do yourself a favor and just send pics of the coin to Dan Sedwick, he's pretty much the foremost expert there is. You should be able to contact...
I disagree, but OK. Here's a more specific answer - In interpreting the Seventh Amendment, judges soon encountered a problem. To which “common...
The term carbon spots has become something of a colloquialism, a catch all phrase if you will, used to describe just about any dark colored spots...
Actually it's because they (the TPGs) don't have any choice but to call it that. They know as well as I do that there is simply no way, that...
Thanks for the kind words. And you're right, intent cannot be proved. But do you know why ? It's because when artificial toning is done correctly...
And nobody disputes that Paul. Well, except for that part about TPG certification providing liquidity in the marketplace. Granted, it does for...
Looking at the coin in question, even when I blow it up 400%, I can't tell for sure what that mark is, but it's definitely not a contact mark. My...
You're welcome. And no, that's not true at all. You see, I learned many years ago that it is the nature of open discussion to stray off course and...
Speaking as the guy who actually decides what the answer to that is - you do ! Nobody else. edit - There is however an exception. If someone post...
The answer to that depends upon whom you are asking. In simple plain fact, for that very reason there is no definitive answer for the person...
This is your answer. https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/seventh_amendment
Your post kind of addresses two different subjects. One would be the grading aspect and the second would be what qualifies as a major distracting...
Is the Morgan toner market cooling? The way you worded your question kind of implies that the Morgan toner market cooling off is something new....
You merely making a personal choice. At the time, those WERE the only MS grades that existed. And those graded as 70 were the first coins graded...
That's because you're only looking at NGC and PCGS. But before either one of them ever existed there was another game in town - ANACS. And in...
But you can if that original previously existed !
1977.
Could be, if you have copies please check for us. But going by memory the grades 63 and 67 did not even exist until the ANA instituted their use.
Yes it does, and that is the advertising pitch used to sell those products. But what they don't tell you is that it only protects them for a...
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