It depends on the coin and what they (the TPGs) know about it. There are actual off metal strikes, have been for centuries. They are usually test...
Now Frank if you had fulfilled your part of the bargain, you'd already have your likes from me. The fact that you don't speaks volumes ;)
Apparently Jim was posting while I was still typing my response, he could easily be correct. They could have been substituting the term "glazed"...
I'll grant you that is what a lot of people think in today's world, but it really isn't true. If you harshly clean a coin with an abrasive, of any...
Yes, bronze is tin and copper and brass is copper and zinc. But with an issue like this it is more a matter of the color of the coin than anything...
That large lump down beside the D in Dollar, I don't know what it is but that's not from any rusted die. Nor would it be found on any genuine coin...
I've never heard the term glazed used to describe a coin either, but I suspect it has something to do with the application of a foreign material...
There's a lot to know about counterfeits Daniel, far more than could ever be discussed here on this forum. There are several entire books...
On the whole, yes the statement is true. In terms of sheer numbers there are absolutely more examples of counterfeit modern coins than there are...
Yeah, my bar had a jukebox and a cigarette machine that took halves. That was in the mid '80s.
We're gonna have to agree to disagree on that.
Christian my immediate thought upon reading that was that they were afraid of the govt. thinking that they had coins and that possibly leading to...
Rich, the criteria for the PL designation, and the DMPL designations, and the CA and DCAM designations, are published and spelled out by both NGC...
Quite honestly, bowl luster is not a term I've ever heard used before. The only thing I can even imagine it might refer to is the way that some...
That is correct. NGC and PCGS both require this for a coin to get the PL designation.
Almost anything is possible. But in the end what really matters is what is the most probable explanation ? And in this case the most probable is...
Neither one really. It would be more accurate to describe it as the best educated guess that the leading names in numismatics could come up with...
Really doesn't matter. It's quite easy for toning like that to not show up in pictures or for the coin to look completely different in 2 different...
The toning visible in your pictures would not affect the grade. And I suspect that is exactly what it looked like when NGC graded it. What that...
If you look back at old threads asking the same question, and there have been hundreds of them over the years, the consensus is going to come up...
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