If you read all of the series of articles you'll see that the mints change the way they do things depending on the coins they are producing. And...
And I don't disagree with that at all Kurt. But that doesn't make them (the TPGs) right. All it means is that they have loosened their grading...
Hmmmm. There seems to be one thing missing in all of the replies regarding the OP's coin. It was kind of touched upon by John Coxe, but not...
If you are referring the '64 SMS coins, I don't know of anyone who has claimed that they ever were minted as "sets", or ever intended to be...
I can do ya one better. @Sallent - I just changed the editing time limit for you. You now have 3 days (till Fri night) to go and edit that thread...
It's most likely a magician's coin, a fake sold as a novelty.
We shall have to disagree on that count.
Yes, there are. Think about it for a minute. Even you, who by your words are new to the hobby, questioned the grades because of what your own eyes...
Yes you are looking at poorly graded coins. Or to be more precise, grossly over-graded coins.
The one, and only reason that NGC uses SP is because PCGS calls them SMS. They do not do it because they consider them to be specimen strike...
Yeah, that used to be true, but not any more. The Grey Sheet completely changed the sources that they use to establish the values they list. In...
Absolutely not. A die chip is a die chip, and that is defined by its size rather than by what causes it. A cud is larger, usually much larger,...
And that's the argument for why I think they should be called trial strikes, or test strikes. Something along those lines. SP (specimen) coins...
Something you need to remember Steve, for every person there is who posts on this forum, there are at least 10 others who are regular readers but...
This one is from a different mint and date but it's what a genuine coin of that type would like like. Compare it to yours - [ATTACH]
Well I suppose it would depend on the specific coin in question. But take Morgan dollars for example, even well worn examples can still be...
Well I'll readily agree that I worded my post poorly. Rather obviously once the dies were punched with the date 1964 they were not re-punched with...
Not only does it look like a cast fake, the weight is considerably below what was permitted for those coins. My opinion, no doubt it is a fake.
Two things here. One, it's not that they are "unable" to correctly grade, or are "unable" to identify harshly cleaned coins. It is that they quite...
Simply put learning how to identify harshly cleaned coins is a matter of experience, and a great deal of it. And no you are definitely not a...
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