Well, I'd be willing to bet that you've seen hundreds of coins that were artificially toned, you just didn't know they had been artificially...
Open book huh ? Hmmm, people might be able to read the pages, they just can't see the cover to know what the title is :D
Yeah, I kinda figured it out after I had shut down the computer for the day. The bending and stretching part, any impurities within the metal...
I'd readily agree that most people's scans do not show luster, but that doesn't mean that a scan cannot show luster. This is scan, and it shows...
Before I leave for the day lemme ask ya Jim, the coin that Insider posted pics of, based on what you just said and I might be misunderstanding,...
Well, that's only according the the TPGs, and maybe those who happen to agree with them. For me, if somebody made the coin tone, it's AT no...
I thought so too, but back when this came up a whole lot of other people didn't. So I had the guy who owned the coin send it me. Which is how I...
As for the coin posted by the OP, looks like the real deal, NT, to me. But as I just said above - it aint hard to do that if ya know how. And if...
Nobody is questioning coins like the ones you posted, yeah sure, those are AT. But they are bad AT, crude attempts made by somebody who hasn't got...
For years now the mint has received round blanks. Can't recall for how many but seems like it's been quite a few. From what I've seen it was...
Well yeah, that's obvious. But what's that got to do with the question I asked ? OK if you say so. But from all the videos of it I've seen, they...
Suppose I were to tell you that you that you and every other member of this forum own a great many coins that have cleaned, and you just don't...
Would it ? To do that you have to have multiple roller machines, each one costing a small fortune. Then you'd have the cost for building a factory...
But are ya sure he was a nutcase ? I can certainly understand that line of thinking. But there is another line of thinking to consider, and it...
We're in agreement on that. Yup, it is. But that stretching definitely occurs in 2 directions at the same time - and equally in length and width.
Well except for one thing, maybe a couple of things. Like 1 - when strip is rolled, it's not little short, flat little strips that you can pick up...
Threads like this always make me just kind of sit and shake my head - for a couple of different reasons. One of those would be that the powers...
If I recall correctly the slab label thing started around '98 or so. But by 2001 it was in full swing and several different TPGs came up with all...
I think what people forget, or are not aware of to begin with, is that coin holders are not airtight. None of them are, not a single one, and yes...
Just as an example, I must have taken 20 or 30 shots of this coin trying to capture the color that I first saw in hand. [ATTACH] Now you could...
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