Apparently you misunderstood. I didn't assume anything of the kind, to the contrary I said that grade-flation didn't have anything to do with it....
At the current spot price, $249 IS spot for that coin. For unless my memory is incorrect those coins contain a fifth of an ounce of pure gold. So...
And I submit to you that 99% of the time it makes absolutely no difference. What does make a difference is that ANACS and ICG have grading...
If you were to wash a coin with distilled water, how that can be called anything but cleaning ? If you go wash your hands in water, are you...
Well, most people aren't aware that any specific coin has been bumped up in grade. Typically the only time that people are aware is when it...
Simple answer, no. For one thing TPG grading standards have loosened, considerably, over the pats ten years. For another, the basket of coins that...
The earliest documented examples that I have been able to find of NGC and PCGS both publicly admitting that they dipped coins comes from 1995. And...
This is really the key. Unfortunately, enjoyment of the hobby is not the primary reason most people collect. Most actually do see it as an...
Well I got the message, file is on the way. But this isn't a PM, and I removed your email from here for your own protection.
A pig in a poke huh ? The individual coins in those indexes are the 3,000 most collected coins there are, in the grades most commonly collected....
Ya know I've used naval jelly for its regularly intended purposes since I was a whippersnapper, on boats mostly. But I never even thought of it...
Do you really think that if the coins in those indexes are down that the lower grade coins are not ? If so, you're just fooling yourself.
Well then - http://www.pcgs.com/prices/frame.aspx?type=coinindex&filename=index
@kanga - If you would PM me your email address I would happy to send you an Excel file I put together almost 15 years ago dealing with the CBH,...
Ya know Insider, if you're not careful you may be found guilty of education one of these days :D Now then, I would say that the next step might...
To answer that question all you really have to do is read more, in particular posts, comments and articles written by coin dealers in the...
Not sure how you could possibly view it as advertising :rolleyes: If he did, after that review he sure wouldn't any more !
And even then it depends on who you ask :) Wasn't it nice when the "media" didn't have an agenda ? And yeah, there may be some here who aren't...
From, as they say, the dawn of time, the numismatic community has never been able to agree on what a variety is or what an error is. Or what...
And they may not be, don't know because I haven't checked. But that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that taken as a whole the US coin...
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