I'm a member of both the Old Fort Coin Club (Ft Wayne IN) and the Derby City Coin Club (Louisville KY) I'll be at the Old Fort show this weekend.
If I had to have him on my silver round I'd want a discount so I'd pay $15.
There are 20 different versions of the 2009 cents. There are four designs and two compositions and come in these combinations 2009 P copper...
A 60X loupe is much too strong for such an examination.
Weight would be the first and easiest first test. If the weight indicates that there is a good chance it is 90% then a specific gravity test...
Did they say it was not cleaned, or that it wasn't clean? Means two different things. If they said it's not clean that means it wouldn't grade...
Also looks like there could be some MDD going on as well.
Not a struck through die cap, looks more to me like Post Strike Damage.
Unless you are at one where they do hourly door prize drawings. :)
But of course you do realize there is a big difference between "fine" and "Fine". One is just an adjective, the other is a specificly defined...
Not hard to accomplish if you want to do it.
I don't know about Cointalk, but they do follow the PCGS and NGC forums. And as Caruso's Black Cabinet site becomes more prominent I'm pretty...
It's not the company, it your lifestyle. I have to pay my electric bill today, $43.47 and $8 of that is the fixed monthly service charge ad then...
True, but the collectors can't use it to determine if the slabs are real either because it is obscured for them as well.
None of them.
Sorry Oded but while the link is still there like Rim said they stopped monitoring it about a year ago when they disbanded their anti counterfeit...
It's not their first glow in the dark coin. That was one of their dinosaur coins from a couple of yeas ago.
NGC has been grading for 28 years, and photographing all the coins for about 6 to 7 years. So there are over 20 years worth of graded coins out...
If he bought it over the phone, there is a chance he was scammed by a telemarketer pretending to be a legitimate company. (Unless he called the...
Good pictures Paddy, but you also have to remember there is more than one DDO for the 1995 cent. The OP coin obviously isn't the big one.
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