Then you need to adjust because a weakly struck area cannot have luster. A weakly struck area is one that has not filled the recess in the die,...
We've had this discussion many times over the years. And in pretty much all of them many people offer different examples and/or use different...
Oh I know only too well that in the eyes of the TPGs (and any that happen to agree with them) they do not. Their thinking is the coin is "as...
While I will agree that is what a lot of people do, they only do it because they don't know how to tell the difference between a weak strike and...
For those who might wish to do so, go up to the Search box at the top of this page and click in it. Type in the word - ducat. Then underneath...
You're not taking the scenario I described into account John. If everything else on the 2 coins is of equal quality, except for one coin having...
OK, then ask yourself this. You have 2 dies, one of them suffers from die scratches, (which is what causes the die produced hairlines on the...
That's just it, an educated guess is not required. Anyone who knows how, can easily differentiate a weak strike from wear. The TPGs know that only...
Yes, you are absolutely correct. At the same time let's not forget that sometimes they are not from the die. Now here's the important part - when...
The lines on that coin are no more die polish lines than I am a YN ! And there is a multitude of things that prove they are not. You claim to...
You already know how you did so why pretend you don't ?
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Completely false huh ? Perhaps you need get out a copy of the ANA book and look at the list of contributors to the book, starting with the 1st...
LOL ! Boy, you really have swallowed the TPG propaganda hook, line, and sinker ! Die polish lines, that's not a road I'm going down again, lol.
Let's put it this way, we have no rules against it. But that magenta or whatever it is in your previous post, is kinda hard on the eyes....
We shall have to agree to disagree. What the TPGs do is not market grading. What they do is value grading. They merely call it market grading so...
Kinda hard to even call it a grading guide, in my opinion anyway, since Photograde, then and I believe still now, only covers circulated coins.
Well, by your own words you're new to coin forums so you are probably not aware that Conder101 is recognized as the world's leading authority, and...
Sadly, no. My health prohibits me from being able to travel that far.
Well let's see, Penny Whimsy was published in 1948, and Brown & Dunn was in 1959 - if memory serves correctly. Other than that, prior to the ANA...
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