So I just started going through some of my ungraded material, and I stumbled upon my childhood collection which included a Liberty Nickel folder....
I'm sorry, but Tim preaching patience is like a gigolo preaching abstinence.
I have been selling my collection over the last year and have found it to be an eye opening experience. I have pretty good photographic skills so...
I call this a "marketplace availability premium" If the coin you need to complete your collection only hits the market once ever 5 years, it is...
What? It's over? WTH? I just made more popcorn! :devil:
I think it is pretty evident that the "2" has been altered. Here is a photo of what a genuine 32-S looks like. [IMG] Strangely, this issue...
Questioning my research now huh? Ya think I just made that number up? According to an article entitled COLLECTING SAINT-GAUDENS, PART IV -...
Joe is stampeding!
So you consider a coin that toned over the course of 10 years manufactured. I guess that makes me a coin doctor.:rolleyes: I placed this dipped...
Wow, she had like over 20K posts on the CU forum. Maybe she gave up on coins.
It really isn't as arbitrary as you make it out to be. In general, the TPG's do a very good job eliminating most of the AT coins from their...
Part of the reason I resurrected the thread ;) She hasn't posted since 2009.
This thread needs some color! [IMG]
@SPP Ottawa, Most of the toned coins you have shown in this thread I think would be considered questionably toned by the TPGs. My feeling is...
I never read the book, just like bells! [IMG]
This discussion really depends on how you define natural and artificial toning. I say that because there is no accepted definition. Some believe...
I thought it was funny too and made the same assumption. Strangely, I found the ensuing dispute entertaining as well. Wheres the popcorn?...
This is a thread that died way too early. Nobody had Franklin Halves in 2005, whats up with that? Lets try again. For whom the bell tolls!...
Yes, there are indicators. The two that the TPG's use are the appearance of friction itself and the absence of friction outside the the high...
Yes, but I don't get involved much because I don't want to get banned.
Separate names with a comma.
