When you buy a coin, does the buying of it teach you if you paid too much or not ? No, it doesn't because it cannot. The only thing that can teach...
But what is eye appeal ? It's pretty simple really, eye appeal is the sum of the parts, the coin as a whole. It is all of the other grading...
Maybe, maybe not. The skilled person would have to examine the coin in hand before he could hazard a guess. And even then that's all it would be,...
Yeah I know, I have many gigabytes of files that I have saved over the years. But very few people do that, and those that do soon find out what a...
Some of the best advice I could give would be for every collector to sell a few coins now and then. Why ? Because of what it teaches you about...
But it didn't used to be a misconception. In years past coins in those older slabs would indeed up-grade more often than not if re-submitted. This...
I took your comment as being intended as a compliment Mike, I thank you for that. You're far from being the only person to think I was or am a...
Ahhh, but if they did that, and you had to pay for it just like you have to pay for a book, would you pay for it ? edit - Also, what happens when...
Not really, but they do in one aspect. Namely that if a coin has any wear on it then that coin will not be graded as MS/uncirculated. At the same...
The only thing I addressed with my comments was the specifically quoted comment of yours above. Short and sweet, whether a moderator is engaged in...
You're welcome to think that if you like, but that doesn't make it so. Moderators, all of them, including myself, are first and foremost members...
Because there is a rule in grading that the grade of a coin is determined by the known characteristics for that specific date/mint. This rule...
If one were to only rely on what they can find on-line, their information would be sadly lacking, and more than a bit of it completely inaccurate.
Ehhhh, I don't know that it is, but it is quite possible that it is nothing more than a labeling error, and not an attribution error. When they...
The best thing you can do jt is to buy some books so you can learn a bit about what you are doing. Secondly, collect what you like, however you...
Yup, they are. That's why it only got a 63.
" 1880-S Morgan PCGS undergraded? " You ask if it is under-graded. That implies to me that you think it is. OK, tell us why ? But before you do...
If you are going to use ebay then you have to accept up front that issues like this are going to arise. It goes hand in hand with the venue. That...
One word - popularity.
Well that makes 3 of us that agree. But it is a chocolate and vanilla issue, for whatever that's worth.
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