That's one of the reasons why slabs get trashed. Being all scuffed up is also a tell that a coin in an old holder has seen a lot of mileage with...
Yes, that's what I'm saying. And while it isn't really all that necessary, I'd rather have 25 good data points than 24 and one suspicious one....
PCGS will label this VAM 9. There's no difference in value between the two, and most collectors of 8TF varieties are content having one or the...
A typical grading event is a coin that is graded more or less correctly. If there is a 50% chance that a group of 25 randomly selected coins will...
The purpose of the test is to see if a group can arrive at the same conclusion as a TPG. If this test is only going to be done for 25 coins, then...
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I posted this in the other thread, but I'll post it here, too, since this thread is actually about fingerprints. Since the GSA coins were handled...
Probably MS65. It's VAM 1A, which is a Top 100 variety, although not rare.
Might be VAM 5B. Here's an interesting thought about the fingerprint on the reverse. In the early '70s, these coins were handled and packaged...
One other thing that comes to mind, is that this would make for an interesting article in The Numismatist, once the last coin is posted for the...
It would have been nice had NGC done an analysis of crowd-sourced grades from their grading contest at FUN.
I'll post my opinions about the coin after the poll closes so that I don't influence others' grading one way or another. Looking forward to...
Indeed, a good analysis. I agree with ddddd that there is some bias away from the ordinary coins when GTG threads are posted. A good methodology...
I think I'd like to see this presented with the grading scale normalized to 1 point per grading step. That is to say, guessing XF45 on an XF40...
Insurance carriers tend to know what's safest. Ask what the premiums for your valuables are when they are stored in (a) a shoebox on a closet...
Zinc rot is a form of environmental damage or corrosion, and like all other problems, there is a fuzzy threshold at which it becomes non-gradable....
Either a very straight die crack or a die gouge. Neat!
Only the cent was left this morning. Reported it.
Not perfect, yet unless the mint uses the actual 1964 models and not a low-detail approximation, it'll be better than what the mint produces.
Looks OK. Not super attractive, but OK. Search for "Jhon E Cash toned Morgans" and you'll be taken to a page with huge amounts of info. On my...
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