I understand your point and a lot of folks have said the same kind of thing you're saying. But at the same time it was never a worry for me. Why ?...
Hmmmm - where to begin ? OK, I guess I'll start off with saying basically the same thing most of you have been saying, but I'll be a little more...
That specific coin, I only carried in my pocket for 7 years. But it was merely the last example in a line of them. To answer your question - yes,...
For what it's worth, I can't see anything that makes me thing any of those 3 coins have been harshly cleaned. That does not mean they have not...
Give that man the cigar !! I think my son was about 8 when I took him to his first coin show - and I took 4 of his friends with him, boys and...
I am truly surprised by your comments. I mean if corrosion can eat completely through 16 inches of plate steel - and it is an undeniable fact that...
Air-Tites are merely 1 brand of a hard plastic holder, but they work quite well at protecting your coins and they are about the least expensive of...
I can't show you a picture of one dated 1798, but were you to do a search on Heritage for MS RD large cents, you would find no less than 500 of...
Kind of in line with my previous comment, how about coins that should have been our recent dollar coins ? And this is just one example. [ATTACH]...
Ohhhhhhh what I could do without even tryin hard :D A bit of the esoteric perhaps ? How about an off-metal strike of 1782 gold ducat ? Why it...
I may well have phrased my comment incorrectly, nonetheless I have examined way too many coins in stapled 2x2s and original Proof sets that had...
Jim could easily have a good point. That said, when I was collecting US coins, and even when I had switched and started collecting world coins, I...
If you only knew how many years passed with me making similar comments. And look what happened :)
Don't get to excited now - you are merely joining a long line ;)
I know, I know - Netherlands gold ducats :D C'mon now Kasia, you know you can't help yourself. The power of the darkside shall win in the end ;)
Cool coin ! :cool: I like it ! Why I was even tempted to ............ nahhhhhhh, that aint ever gonna happen :D
Simple answer - yes, yes, yes, and yes. More detailed answer, I discussed all of this in detail on page 1 of this thread, and more on pages 2 and...
@Broncoholic @ldhair That will be enough gentlemen. If ya wanna discuss the coin then discuss the coin. But the back and forth stops here - and now.
Uhhhhh - yup. I can still remember that much :D
And if you have coins in original mint packing that would be worthy of a details grade or no grade - I'd love to see one.
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