No, not at all. Wear and a weak strike are completely different things. A coin can have the weakest strike ever seen and still be MS. Conversely a...
No, it isn't ludicrous at all. The only thing required for a coin to be graded AU is wear someplace, anyplace, on the coin. The luster can be...
As I said - What it boils down to is how you define a problem a coin and how they define a problem coin.
OK, show me a coin that's been minted without their approval. Or, the approval of the agency that preceded them.
Info has been sent to those who asked for it.
Both Oct, 21st 2012 - http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1175&lotNo=10507 http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1175&lotNo=10464
For the most part, these folks decide - http://www.ccac.gov/index.cfm What has changed ? The people doing the deciding, and the artists coming up...
Sure, I will send info to anyone that asks for it. Send me a PM with your email address and I will send it. But I warn you, when I say there's a...
If there was tape on the coin, then it is a given that there is residue on the coin. Yes. That's up to you. What you are faced with is what do...
This very rarely happens because there are very, very few problem coins that are ever sold by the mint. Most of the time they are just sold to...
There's more answers for that than there are coins themselves, and there's a boatload of coins ! Of course the reason there are so many answers is...
What amount of doubling is significant ? Depends on who you ask. Personally, I think the idea has been carried to the nonsensical. I mean really,...
Jaun - if you would like me to I can send you some university study papers that discuss the values of goods and services, wages, and the often...
Not necessarily. Your seller may not even be aware that it is probably an El Cazador coin. Or he may be all to well aware of it and decided not to...
Jaun, back on the 26th you asked this question - You did that in this thread - http://www.cointalk.com/t2616-2/ The very next day on the 27th,...
And I didn't say it was. What I said was - It may be due to the coin being exceptionally weakly struck, or it maybe due to wear. Without seeing...
Fair enough, I didn't realize they had dropped their premiums that low. But you should have looked at Heritage a little closer -...
Question for you Siggi - is that incuse or raised ? In the pics it looks raised to me, but pics can be deceptive that way. If it is raised then it...
Let's get back to the topic guys - and it's not farming or preppers.
You can find about all the examples you want from most coin dealers. For a specific example that you can verify, just look at completed auctions...
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