Well that's kind of the problem in a nutshell. The TPGs, and much of the marketplace, use value to determine the grade of a coin. When it should...
That is indeed the problem. Many refuse to believe that the TPG grading standards have changed at all. Some say that there was a change, a...
No. But you are far from alone in that thinking. Market grading has absolutely nothing to do with value, or with value affecting the grade in any...
You want graphs, here there be graphs - http://www.pcgs.com/prices/frame.aspx?type=coinindex&filename=index Not for specific coins but rather for...
You shouldn't, it's quite true. That has always been accepted as fact since long before the TPGs ever came along. In fact it's even worse than...
Add the '81s to that list.
Potosi minted far more coins than any of the other mints. It might even be argued that they minted more than most others combined. The Potosi...
Of course. And the GSA din't sell them at the same price either. The cheap ones were $20, those were $180.
Yes, they are the most common.
It was not that there was only 1 coin of each surviving. But rather that the GSA only had 1 coin of those dates. There were and are thousands of...
These 'bubble years" that you keep mentioning, what exactly are you referring to ? I can only assume the years when prices exploded in the coin...
The accepted quantities of each date were: • 1878CC - 61,000 • 1879CC - 4,100 • 1880CC - 131,500 • 1881CC - 147,500 • 1882CC -...
Dick I said long ago that I am baffled. That hasn't changed.
And what's more, members who dare to criticize PCGS on the PCGS forum, more often than not, get banned from the PCGS forum.
Here's just one of the problems I have with that having been caused by a rusty die. Look at there where bumps are, they surround the TED and S....
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Avoid ? No. Completely ignore ? All of them.
Oh it's still right there for me, and any other mod to see. But only the mods can still see it. If it were left where everybody could see it, that...
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