Either way, even if it is genuine, it's a problem coin and ungradeable.
Coins are supposed to always be graded according the worst side. And if you think about it that makes perfect sense.
First of all welcome to the forum ! As for your coin, I'm quite concerned that the coin has been messed with. It appears to be an altered date....
When you consider that all of our US silver coins, and all of our US gold coins, contain copper - that means all of our US coins are subject to...
It's not just PCGS, NGC uses Plus grades as well. And it could be said that both the green (when it applies to A coins), and especially the gold,...
Yeah, they both will. But they will charge you a dollar more for each one, and you are out the Air-Tite. That used to be the charge anyway, it may...
j2 - ask yourself a very simple question. If it is easy, why isn't everybody doing it ?
You trying to talk yourself out of buying it ? Or are you trying to convince me that you don't need it ? If the latter, give up, because you do...
Based on those pics I can't see the coin well enough to offer judgement on the coin itself. But price wise for that grade, yeah you did OK.
If you follow their submission rules, you can't. Highly doubtful, in the time it takes for the coin to leave you, get to the TPG, and get...
I won't disagree. But, there are probably only a handful of people who have access to a scale that is capable of detecting that weight difference.
There is one and only one thing that determines if a coin is uncirculated - wear. If the coin has no wear then it is uncirculated. It doesn't...
His options are to exercise patience and only buy coins that have been graded correctly. Or, you can buy over-graded but correctly priced coins....
To be honest, I really don't see a whole lot of difference.
But have they ? People use the excuse (and that's all it is, an excuse) that TPG grading standards have loosened because coins have gone up in...
You don't need a full year's subscription, but you do need about 6 different issues to cover all coins. And you don't need to buy new issues. You...
And - many coins are really only worth a fraction of what it says they are worth in the Red Book. So you don't want to buy coins based on Red Book...
Yeah, they do. Because the plastic is not soft it has hard, sharp edges. So when you put the coin into or take it out of the flips those edges...
Understand this, there are many different kinds of spots. Carbon spots are just one of them. Yeah, it's a name that people throw around all the...
You don't buy the books for the photos, forget the photos. Trying to learn to grade based on pictures is about the worst thing you could do !...
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