There's enough education within the posts made on CT to fill a small library ;)
It's pretty common for hairlines to be very difficult to see in pictures, especially on business strikes. Sometimes they can even be difficult to...
I'm well aware of that. I was merely pointing out another example of what you referred to as - an interesting bit of history.
They tell you on their websites so the carriers may vary, but you pay the bill (in advance) in any case. To the best of my knowledge they are all...
Well, that's why I have written it so many times. Unfortunately a common response is that some want to argue with it. And what they don't realize...
I readily acknowledged in my previous posts that there are more than a few coins in major TPG slabs that have foreign substances on them that were...
Natural toning on every coin, not just ASEs, begins at the moment the coin is ejected from the coin press. How fast or how slowly that toning...
Either NGC or PCGS. I'd always recommend USPS, but the type of mail you choose kinda depends on how much the coin or coins are worth. Registered...
To each his own but I have to disagree on that. As far as I am concerned any foreign substance that is applied to a coin, and then remains on the...
According to PCGS themselves, all the coins submitted under the Secure Plus grading tier are run through the "sniffer". As a matter of routine...
Were I you, I'd start here - http://www.sedwickcoins.com/ Dan is acknowledged as an authority and he is trustworthy.
Wellllllllll - if we were to count the coinage of Asia we could actually go back a good bit further than that. But who's counting ? :D
Highly doubtful either one would remove spots from a coin as both are very limited in what they can remove. The thing about spots on a coin is...
The only entity which produced a coin of the same design for a longer period of time was the city state of Venice, it was the original ducat. And...
But them having spots on them does not change that. Many, a very great many, uncirculated coins both old and new have spots on them. The one and...
Because dies aren't/weren't made the way you seem to think they are Mike. They are all round. Now I don't have pictures of a lot of old dies,...
That one's easy, see post #17 in this thread -...
Ya left one out :) [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 430 years of the same design and still counting ;)
It's pretty simple, it's because there is nothing wrong with mentioning those words themselves. The problem comes along when one starts discussing...
Well, I'd kinda like to have one, but there aren't any coins that old :D
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