The contest, now minus the lottery tickets, is fine as it is.
Unh huh, and that coin over there is a variety - no it isn't, it's an error ! And that over there is an error - no it isn't, that's a variety !...
The original question in this thread was - how can you recolor a Lincoln ? Well, my answer to that is, let mother nature do it for you. I've...
Well that's the excuse PCGS used to try and get the public to buy into it, but it was a lame and completely invalid excuse. The truth is that...
They did esplain, it's right there in black and white - Altered Surfaces - Questionable Color. I mean that pretty much says it all, what else is...
Well I'm tempted to post some of the coins I used to collect just because they're so much purtier than those things you ancient guys collect. And...
And to think your wife said you weren't smart enough to figure things out :D
I'm just amazed he's still collecting those old things :D I mean if memory serves, it was 16 years ago, or more, when I first saw him posting...
Awww gee Kurt, glad to do it. Why I'd even do the same thing for somebody I liked :D
Good Lord I haven't seen you around here in what seems like a 100 years ! :) Either I really am gettin old - or time's flyin !
Toning, if allowed to progress unchecked, will do that to copper, and silver coins too.
It's not a sticker it's a card that was inserted into the opposite side of the flip. And no, I was not the submitter. I just happened to save the...
In this case, it didn't affect it at all. A scratch, in and of itself, cannot drop a grade from MS to AU. A scratch is either judged severe enough...
Common name - corrosion, many different causes.
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Questionable color is what PCGS has pretty much always called it. And they have used that term because they know, and have always known, that...
I have absolutely no doubt they would. Over the years they've graded a rather large number of them. In fact it's a pretty safe bet that most of...
Lemme ask you a basic question Joe. Coin values have been dropping steadily for 8 years now. And before that coin values were rising steadily for...
In case you missed it, all of the coins in that collection are slabbed and cleanly graded by PCGS. Including the coin being discussed in this...
You know how long that "talk" has been around ? Lemme give ya a hint - longer than I've been alive. Now, lemme give ya some facts to go with...
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