Good thing they are not putting better fakes in the slabs. Two seconds tells you the grade is wrong, then another two seconds tells you they are...
Thank you OP. I have been preaching this here for a decade. Toning was looked down upon for decades BECAUSE it can hide surface imperfections....
"Seams" like this can throw me too. Unfortunately not one diagnotic for fakes, because any ONE of them can be explained. The rest of the coin...
I have always semi-hated the geographical organization of "Greek" coins. Its somewhat understandable, yet I collect a lot of oddball things....
Yeah he is mad. He is mad that a "coin dealer" did not know this. Well, guess what, they are not coins! One of the reasons I buy coins instead of...
One main reason foreign gold can sell for less is less people "collect" them by date, and it's harder to authenticate. Dealers are not gods, they...
If for gold investment, all you want is certainty it is real. As long as it's a recognized name, TPG will not matter. The differences come in the...
Heck, I will admit I am jealous of many coins here. @Alegandron has a Shapur I tetradrachm I would love to own. :)
First, I am glad others are telling Donna just to keep it so it's not just me. Second, @Nathan B. , I miss every coin I have ever sold. I don't...
Legal tender is simply what is decreed by the government as legal money. In the US, that includes what you mention. Coinage acts declare that the...
:) Um yeah, there at times have been remarks on the other forums. Like I said, I don't get mad, preferring to see humor in hobby banter, but I...
Fair enough you have personal experience in SENDING them to melters. I knew some dealers who BOUGHT the same coins. :) Many times "melters" are...
Btw, I think you and Doug are misinterpreting "melt". A dealer over 30 years ago told me almost no coins get melted, (especially US), since they...
Might be interesting to use for ancients, but the best ancient fakes nowadays are melting down real ancients to make the planchets. They got...
I would guess this is a core of a fourree. They would make planchets of silver coated base metal and strike them. Many such coins the silver fell...
Everyone here has probably heard of Arab-Byzantine coins that were struck when the Muslims took over former Byzantine territories. Same can be...
You think the hair above the ear is wear? Could be. I was thinking softness. I hate grading from photos and not in hand.
I disagree with the word "clipped". That connotes that the planchet was like that when struck. I think its more of a broken/chipped coin. No...
Nice reverse, CC mint, pretty color, I would not think below 63, maybe higher due to color and MM.
I like the Franklin silver dollar a lot, and a lot of the APE proof designs.
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