LOL ! Please tell me you don't have the same last name I do :D
Not true at all. Toning of any color, or combination of colors, is quite often 100% natural toning.
Yes it is possible to remove haze from Proof coins, and it can be done without damaging the coins. The product MS70 does a good job of this, but...
As the adage goes, truth is stranger than fiction. Along the same lines, mother nature can and often does outdo man. But on your side of the...
Coin weights are not uncommon. Years ago many merchants used them to verify the coins they received in payment. Whether that is an actual...
Disagree ? Really ? Are you actually trying to deny that plastic album slides are not known, and very well known, for scratching coins ? Archival...
Gorgeous ! Simply gorgeous ! :thumb:
Yes that is the kind of box and cellophane that the sets originally came in. But the cellophane was also wrapped in tissue paper. The original...
It says right in the Red Book why they were made - because there were no half cents made in 1837 and they drastically needed them. So these were...
You can start with what you find here - http://www.cointalk.com/t14179/ As for books, there are literally hundreds of them. The two I suggest you...
If you know that, then why do you still use ebay ?
Yes, that is one of the theories for the origin of milk spots. But it is only a theory, nobody knows if it is true or not.
Actually I think they will, but they will charge you extra if you do. Yes, they can. The archival quality flips are well known for causing light...
There are lots of them. On a pure numbers basis there are far more than there ever were in years past. But that is due to the huge numbers of...
Based on those pictures none of them are FBL in my opinion.
No there isn't. They do not guarantee any kind of attribution.
My point, as always, is that you can clean the coin without doing harm to the coin. But there are very few ways to do that.
Aslpride, you're probably not going to like this but I have heard and read this same story more times than I can count. And in my opinion the...
Attributions, including variety attributions, reference attributions and pedigree attributions are NOT guaranteed. Further, NGC does not guarantee...
Quite true. But what will you think when you are siting there scrubbing up those circulation finds, and the crud you remove with the toothbrush...
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