As long as you're studying grading you might as well stay on the same subject. As mentioned earlier in the thread the PCGS book is a good one, one...
The ANA grading standards have remained virtually unchanged since 1986. And that is based on a line by line comparison of those standards for...
Lemme put it this way - any sealed container made of inert materials will help. And pretty much all of them will help equally, meaning one is not...
Speaking in general terms, and talking about today's world and not the past, ANACS and ICG are even worse, meaning more lenient, than either NGC...
Thermoplastic Rubber - TPR - is for the most part an inert material. But if exposed to ultraviolet radiation or direct sunlight it can degrade...
In today's world a lot of people refer to it that way, but that isn't what it is. You see, the ANA actually invented market grading in 1986,...
Members are not only allowed to do stuff like that, they are encouraged to do so ;)
It certainly can if they decide they want to sue you for it. And yeah, it's happened right here on this forum. And no, if won't matter if you're...
I suspect that most of the time you can't even find what you need to know at an on-line source. Most of the time you need books.
I guess I should add at least this much. The one coin, it looks like traces of silver over copper, and it looks to have been cast. Those two...
I've probably got the books to look them up, but it would take some time to do so, possibly quite a few hours. It's been quite a few years since I...
Nope, I won't do anything. Why ? All kinds of reasons, several of them having to do with the legalities involved. You do realize that if I did...
And I think we'll just leave it there. Both parties have had their say now, and I think it best that if either one of them has anything more to...
I'm just guessing here but without doing a lot of research my guess would be there's a good chance they're both cast counterfeits. Just based on...
Unless I miss my guess, no grade, harshly cleaned.
Just be aware that PCGS has stated in their own book on grading standards that coins with wear on them can be graded as high as MS67. There are...
I was probably the first person on this forum to ever post that collecting coins as an investment was a very bad idea. It always has been and it...
I'm only commenting here because I've seen it before. This thread is just fine like it is, I have no problem with it all. But if it turns into a...
Oh, there's been quite a few actually. But I'll grant you that I don't comment on the grade of a coin here on the forum very often, at least not...
By the standards I use definitely AU. TPG, who knows, nothing they do surprises me anymore.
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