Time will tell, it always does.
I fixed that problem for you :)
Simple, because they won't be able to sell their coins in the over-graded slabs. Nobody will want them, they will only want coins in the new...
There have been other, much larger jumps in the pop numbers that occurred over similar time periods. But nobody noticed them because nobody but me...
On the contrary, they are not incompetent at all, they know exactly what they are doing.
Mike why do you think they loosened the grading standards to begin with ? They did it because they wanted all those grading fees that people would...
Would you like to know how many of those 1997 MS68RD cents there were in Oct. of 2003 ? A grand total of 2. Now would ya like to know how many...
I first started posting about all of this, right here on this forum, over 10 years ago. And I have been posting about it ever since. All of the...
The three threads were posted at 6:44 PM - https://www.cointalk.com/threads/holy-ngc-just-took-pcgs-behind-the-woodshed.289663/ , 7:11 PM -...
If you are referring to the green spot, and only the green spot, on that specific coin, I would agree with you - it is not patina, it is...
As the code 93 states - "depends on severity". In other words if the planchet flaw is bad enough the coin won't be cleanly graded; if it isn't too...
klippenberger - About the only thing I can think of that you may wish to add to a set like this would be bi-metal coins. There's a pretty wide...
In numismatics, and other walks of life, patina is often used to refer to more than one thing. Toning, or color is one of them. But I assume that...
From PCGS - 93|N-3 Planchet Flaw - Metal impurity or defect in the planchet – depends on severity Because it is considered damage. And it's...
No grade - planchet flaw, and yes it is severe enough, F details.
Going into currency trading are ya Michael ? :D It's a good looking coin - I like it ! And they no doubt made it that big so they could depict...
I've tried to stay out of this, I really have. But I just -can't - help - myself !! :( Well, I suppose the answer to that question depends on...
It's not the color that makes me think it's AT, it's the way you can see traces of the liquid used to do the toning, in particular just below 3...
Not my point. If you look, she worked at Coin World at the time. So you can pretty much bet there was an article about it in Coin World back then.
Not exactly, that's how toning on Proof coins often starts. I won't say it starts that way on every single coin but it is extremely common. That...
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