Fifty to sixty years ago harsh cleaning WAS the acceptable method. And it was the acceptable method for hundreds of years before that. It is only...
If you were to ever look at two such coins in person, I believe you'd see the difference in an instant. But Air-Tites are not airtight, no coin...
Personally, I see die cracks as flaws that make a coin less desirable. And I can't see how they could be considered anything else. As for...
RedRaider - Did you buy the coin because you like it and wanted it for your collection, or because you were hoping for a flip opportunity if you...
As a general rule of thumb, a problem coin can be worth anywhere from 20% to 80% of what a problem free example is worth. The more severe the...
Do you realize that at the very instant that a coin leaves the dies striking it that coin begins to tone ? So just how do you define original as...
That has been known to happen ;)
Just because something is written in a book do you think that means it is true ? It is an indisputable fact that there are a whole lot of times...
Given that she is a museum curator that opinion does not surprise me one bit. Now if you want to see the fallacy of that opinion and just how...
Yes, I was. Toning is a progressive action, it starts at one of the spectrum and moves through it to the other. Then that progression starts all...
It sure looks purplish to me spock. Now if you were expecting to say that I had seen a brilliant royal purple gold coin, no of course not. But...
Start a new thread and we'll discuss it. No sense in sidetracking your contest thread.
Money, in any form, is nothing but an idea. Always has been.
Hmmm, good to know that there is a scientific reason for what I have known and claimed for years to be true - being true. Thanks Jim.
Yup, they did. Staff doesn't matter though. They have to grade coins according to the standards they are told to use by the company - regardless...
You can try to justify it all you want and any way you want, but if you can routinely and repeatedly find a given coin in a given grade at a coin...
It's really hard to tell with all the glare on those pics but I'm thinking the coin is AU which would make it worth maybe $400, $500.
As Larry said, when the graders see a toned coin and something about the toning just looks "off" to them they will label it as Questionable Color....
In some cases that may well be true. Yeah, they may be stable and may not vary, but how do they compare to what you can find on Heritage ? Take...
It doesn't have anything to do with an IQ, a person can have a genius level IQ and still do foolish and senseless things. That is the definition...
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