I will add this - [IMG] You see that blindfold, it's not there to make a fashion statement or because she thinks it looks good on her.
Everybody is entitled to their own opinion Kurt, even you ;)
Sorry but you are not. It's personal and private, and I will no more discuss his business with you than I would discuss yours with anybody else....
No I didn't, but I didn't because they have no relevance, cannot have any relevance. Why ? Because if you start making exceptions because - this...
By knowing the market. And yeah it's your responsibility, not somebody else's, to know the market, to know what you are doing before you do it. To...
Even among the so called experts in numismatics there is no consensus as to what defines an error and what defines a variety. That is an argument...
When you're looking at a coin in hand there's 3 things involved - you, the light, and the coin - and the various angles between all of them. So,...
This is what it says in the Rules - https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-talk-rules.34131/ NOTE - Coin Talk has an infraction system. Break the...
Yes, something has changed, in today's world NGC and PCGS over-grade every bit as much as ICG or ANACS ever did, and still do ! Well I don't...
Glad you liked it :) Darek and I spent a lot of time writing that series of articles. But the primary point of part 3 that I wanted you to...
Don't take what I said the wrong way, I merely said what I did for informational purposes only.
Yes, some artificial toning is done with a torch. But it's almost a certainty that the coins in question were toned with chemicals, not a torch.
Krd - While what Kanga said is technically accurate it is also somewhat misleading to those without the base knowledge needed to understand it....
HawkeEye it seems that you're trying to base your point of view on the difference between a collector and an investor, and that's fine I have no...
And this very well may be the case. I could try and explain what I mean by that but it would be much easier and save me a lot of writing to just...
Well that's the thing, there is no such thing as an "expert" when it comes to toning. The absolute best that anyone can ever do is guess as to...
It seems that every time I use these graphs somebody tries to explain away their significance, their validity, by saying that the PCGS indexes are...
I'll readily agree that the condition would need to be known to determine the value of the coins. But are they collectible, in any condition ?...
Well they call that questionable, and maybe it is. And yet look at the coins they slabbed and cleanly graded mentioned in the link found in this...
Ya shoulda been around when I was still collecting Kurt. Comments like that were an everyday occurrence - and not just around here. Many a...
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