Completely different animals. The Coin World book (1st one) only covers about 100 different coins (those deemed most popular) if memory serves....
No reason to be IMO.
First I've ever heard of it.
And the grading standards say that.
W.Va.
Why ? Because a planchet flaw is one of the problems that makes a coin a problem coin. 93|N-3 Planchet Flaw - Metal impurity or defect in the...
Well lemme put it this way, I'm half Cherokee and I use the saying myself ;)
With a scratch that big and deep the coin is definitely a problem coin. And yes, I would say it has AU details. As it for not bothering others, I...
Good lord there's no way that coin has AU details ! Low XF details at best and maybe even high VF details.
If cleaning is done correctly there is nothing wrong with it. There are literally millions and millions of cleaned coins in regular NGC and PCGS...
Grading British coins is no different than grading any coin really. The methods are the same, but the primary difference between the US and the...
Yup, and I thought it rather obvious. I mean how do you miss that ??? And by the way, those two parallel lines, are the result of a single scratch.
How ? Easy, because the finalizer never even sees the coin in a slab. Nor do any of the other graders. The labels are printed, and the coins...
ANA grading standards most definitely define quality of strike as a grading criteria. And for that matter so does the PCGS grading book. As does...
Well it appears that nobody even saw the scratch that was reason for the details slab. So here's a question for you - where exactly is this scratch ?
Rusty the grade estimates in all of these kind of threads are always what I would grade the coin - not what I think a TPG would grade the coin....
I won't disagree that some might think of it as "rare" Mike. But something I'll never understand is how anybody can consider a coin with roughly...
No idea where you found it, but that is just an awesome picture Matt !
Ahhh, OK, I thought he was talking about this - [ATTACH]
The way I see it is you use the Showcase to show off a special coin or two, or three. You use the Gallery as an on-line coin album for all of your...
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