I agree. I wonder if any TPG would grade the coin or if it would just come back with an "altered surfaces" designation.
Why don't you sell the coins you don't like and buy coins you like instead of ruining the coins you have because of a cleaning compulsion? This...
Which brings up another question I have often wondered. Personally, I'd be pretty happy to be able to buy improperly dipped but otherwise...
Yes, you should clean the coin if the following conditions apply: If you are tired of the coin, but can't be bothered to sell it or give it...
Coinstar is one of the greatest ripoffs of all time.
Thank you for reminding me again why I don't use Ebay. The good news is that ASEs are bullion coins and don't carry much of a premium regardless...
Ok. Then don't dip the peace.
I'll bet Mark Twain wouldn't buy one.
I agree. I don't think one term is more proper or descriptive than another. I usually think of the word cent or cents as denoting the value, and...
I do most of my buying on the internet these days, but tend to avoid Ebay since it is a much higher risk market. Who you use depends on what you...
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
It is difficult to say why one coin is popular and another is not. The Columbian halves seem to deserve more popularity than they have, but seem...
I like them, but I don't own one yet. The rim/edge is the "third side" of the coin and the more visibility, the better.
I put all of the modern commems into the "bullion" category, similar to ASEs and AGEs. The Washington half is one of the better designs in my...
And the coin date fits better with Carter than Kennedy. There is no reason in the world to put a Kennedy image on the coin.
My recollection is that I heard NCI was pretty consistent but generous in their grading. Since they no longer exist, the NCI paperwork might have...
All they would have to do is stop making cents and lift the ban on melting them. No need to recall them or demonitize them. After a number of...
Is there a way to remove the paint, leaving it an ordinary cleaned coin? It has to be worth more as an ordinary cleaned coin than the way it is....
I happen to like the design of the $5 Constitution and the $10 Olympic commems, but I think I'm the only one. In fact, all of the gold commems...
You might be right! ;)
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