Mint NDAs, if they exist, may have a statement about national security confidentiality and criminal penalties in it for some employees. There may...
Yes, PCGS has a conservation service ... for an extra fee. No guarantee of success. PVC residue can be removed with acetone or tetrahydrofuran....
Yeah. Anyone want to see my pilonidal cyst scar? (Don't google it while eating!). Cal
I've gotten this message before from NGC. It's happened because they've spotted something that may eventually cause damage (like PVC residue) or...
I agree with you. Anyone who thinks finders/keepers applies to historical and archeological artifacts in the US is mistaken unless they own the...
The extremely rare and expensive (six figure) original Confederate half dollars were struck at the NO mint. They were presentation pieces for...
Haven't been there myself, but the old NO Mint has two museums in it ... one dedicated to jazz, the other to coining. The link below is a video...
They're being sold by Apmex and maybe elsewhere. See the links below. Cal...
Anyone have experience with NGC or PCGS Stage Coach BU Morgans? I'm assuming they're common date and would grade near the bottom of MS. But how...
Unless you're willing to pay the extra-high prices for walk-through service, there's nothing instant about having a coin graded regardless of...
It doesn't prove anything about grading standards. There's no way to know the condition of the raw coins that were submitted and that may have...
A little clarification (I hope!:)). I think grading standards have loosened a bit over the decades, but haven't seen definitive proof. So it's...
I've benefited multiple times from regrading and crossing. So ratcheting has worked for me. However, most of my submissions for regrading have...
I think gradeflation by TPGs over the decades is real in the sense that for many series, the percentage of coins in higher grades has increased....
Really, don't need elaborate image analysis to verify they're pics of the same coin. On the obverse, the wavy light area to the left of Liberty's...
Good illustration (sorry! :inpain:) of how the same coin can look very different with different photographic techniques. There are several very...
Glad they had police watching the line and keeping order. There are ways to avoid line jumping or even pretty much avoid long lines either in...
Every US collector should have a Red Book. It's great for looking up mintages. However, it doesn't work for survivorship. For example, the...
Yes. And there are some who deal only in high-end coins. When some of these dealers sniff out that you're not buying multithousand dollar coins,...
In the PCGS Morgan CC set registry, the 79CC and 93CC both get weight of 3. Inexplicably, so does the 92CC. 89CC gets a weight of 5. All the...
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