I don't see any "demise" in the future for auction houses, just the erasure of profit margin for the smaller players who use them.
I did nothing to that image personally; I found it on a Google Image Search for TheMont's avatar. Now, I don't know which came first, but given...
That is a pure "work of art" under all applicable law and is absolutely automatically protected. With that said, I think your grandson might have...
Holy cow, that's a "pry it from my cold dead hands" coin. :D
I don't normally do Instagram, but for this I'll make an exception. :)
I would take this one down the road @messydesk recommended, keeping Paddy's words in mind as a good reason. Yes, acetone will assuredly remove it,...
To me, "Dipping" is a trade-specific term referring exclusively to the employment of thiourea, most normally in the form of E-Zest, to strip a...
Heritage, in particular, is very generous with their permission to repost images. All they ask is accreditation.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, just asserting that in the very specific instance of US cons, there's plenty of grey area in regards to...
I see GC's rep as a better place to buy than sell changing in the short- to mid-term. Fees at the major houses are usurious to the average seller,...
Like all toning, it boils down to market acceptability. Me, I could envision a scenario under which this might have happened "naturally," if the...
The reason I do so is because the early stages of PVC plasticizer infection are undetectable, even though the chemical process is actually already...
Do that yourself. You'll find coin images to be a rather special case, since their subject matter is public domain and the government cannot thus...
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1983-ddr.301046/ As did I. This is considered the strongest reverse doubling in the whole series, but it's...
Every raw coin I buy - regardless of composition - goes into acetone, individually, and has for many years. I don't buy in bulk; if I did, some...
Yeah, that would work.
It only happened post facto because someone was silly enough to argue that a thing which the government had not intended to, and specifically...
PCGS' grading standards have no effect upon my own. One of the reasons is the weight which they assign eye appeal when determining a grade. A...
Well, look at the linked coin, where the machining is so accurate that it allowed them to remove areas into the flat part of the rim area, and...
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