No, a grading service cannot afford to slab a fake coin. A grading service can afford to refuse to slab a genuine coin. It happens all the time.
Once again, I refer to the article on grading services on the home page of this web site: Even grading services make mistakes, especially...
I am looking at the Breen encyclopedia, at a picture of a 1908, and the star in the picture to the left of the 1908 is exactly the same as the...
Until this quarter eagle business, every single US gold coin that I have bought in Japan that I have had slabbed in the US (about 40 coins in...
I refer you, sir, to this article on Coin Talk's home page:...
The problem with Morgans here is not with counterfeit ones, but with overpricing. They seem to be about the most popular American coin over here...
I was assuming that the melt price was taking into account the "ugly" factor, and that the dealer probably had less than the asking price invested...
What, exactly, is a Dansco 7070 album?
There has been a lot of discussion in AboutCoins and elsewhere about Chinese counterfeits. A Chinese counterfeiter who cuts a 90% gold fineness to...
Truly rare coins from developed countries almost always sell for more in their home countries than in other countries. I could easily sell a nice...
I can think of three reasons for counterfeiting a common date Saint-- 1) It wouldn't get the same kind of scrutiny that a key date would get....
Oh, there are large coin shows in Tokyo, to be sure, but the only one of any real size is the Golden Week show in Nihonbashi, which is the only...
Looking at my Whitman album, I see that I am lacking more than half of all series except nickels-- I was able to find all but the George V, George...
I would say it's better to get the common stuff first, so you can get a feel for the series. Keys are nearly always plagued by counterfeits or...
Nice coins. Thanks for the individual photos.
Back in 1979, when silver was making its dramatic rise, I rode my bicycle 10 miles up to Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and got all the half dollar rolls I...
So would use as a jewelry piece account for this strange color on a St. Gaudens double eagle?
I've got one of those. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll have to take a closer look at it.
So what, exactly, makes it a fake? That is what I would like to know. I saw one in an a slab in an auction that was, as far as I could tell,...
The design is incuse insofar as it is recessed below the field, but the devices are raised, they are just under the field. Does that make sense?
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