LOL, the wind is blowing it in here! Actually, my computer is in our basement (you know, the place below ground where we go during tornados...
Here too!
Midas's point is that PCGS is stricter (as backed up by his numbers), but I think the scope of that assesment must be limited to the scope of the...
That has fabulous eye appeal for a DDO, plus once it is graded (and it's comparison to others graded is known) then if it is top pop then you set...
It is likely that an experienced coin collector would be able to notice the fact that the coin was former jewelery. That type of bezel leaves...
True, but if you mint trillions of something does it matter if you never mint them again? Those things will be around forever. Centuries from...
I don't need to own a bunch, but I love attributing them!
well, at least they are still listing the damage, instead of using the slab style to note damage. I can live with it this way.
The odds are that the copper plating on the cent has been removed (or worn off) and the zinc core is showing. No additonal value, as this is damage.
Well, I let it go, and it ended up selling for PF64 money. 5 or 6 days ago I emailed the seller with this: I then received the following...
hmmm, I guess it was the photo. That hardly resembles the original images!
I think I see where you are going with this, and you make a great point! If an insurance company refuses to recognize the SGS 70 as being as...
The first strike definition means that the coin was shipped from the mint's distibution warehouse during January or February of the year. I...
It is my experience that eBay panders to its biggest power sellers (and aboncom is one of that group). That means that anything that can be...
Actually, that isn't true. AOL is based in Dulles, Virginia and by far the vast majority of their workforce is located in the US. What they do,...
Well, my father visited this weekend and he brought this coin with him. One of his co-workers had come across it in his father-in-laws house and...
The bag that that is in is exactly like the one that I have. I visited the Denver mint in 1987 and you could put a dollar into a machine and then...
This statement is incorrect. the only thing that can get you into trouble is if you deface a coin/bill for the purpose of committing fraud. That...
another option is to hang around here long enough to get to the 50 posts needed to post in the open forum. There you could list them for sale to...
[IMG] [IMG] so what do you think?
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