A bit of a handicap is that NGC calls coins which look like this "70's": [ATTACH] That's an 1887, by the way. Any wonder why it only sold for...
The soaker, by the way: [ATTACH] The glass ($0.89 at Walmart) has a neat curved bottom on which the coin cannot lay flat. It's covered by what...
In Philadelphia, in February? A lab-grown rose would cost me as much as the coin did, and then I'd have to find someone to give the rose to. :P
Somebody's gonna want to slap me for saying this, but.... As a generality, acetone will make PVC plasticizer byproduct soft and gooey, but even...
There is a natural tendency in people to be distrustful of the motives and morals of the rich and successful. Beats the heck out of facing the...
I wonder what Salzberg is thinking right now.
Well, at least for 1889-CC Morgans in F12, in real-world sales the price hasn't changed a bit. I used PCGS Auction Results as a source, since it's...
Of course. For something like this, the first acetone soak is 24 straight hours untouched, to ensure any possible chance for it to "soak in" to...
I believe there was a bit of leg-pulling happening there....
I'm glad somebody else mentioned it first. :D
MS65RB is probably break-even factoring grading cost, and even then the color would have to be in play. I must say, when I first read this thread...
Eminently believable. As I mentioned, with issues like this, anything below 69 might as well be circulated, so there's no real use getting...
It'll take a few days for the Verdi-Care to get here; in the meantime, I'm ensuring that acetone and xylene won't do the trick all by their...
Not really, but the color on the lower feature probably masks that die scratch anyways. As for the crack, have a look here:...
I know, right? :) I sometimes answer numismatic questions on Quora. A while ago, I got into it with another answerer who used the place to...
I apologize; it's too short a term on its' own to trigger the Search function and I assumed it was and you could look for it that way. Start here:...
For all we know, nobody involved in any of the sales you're discussing actually has the coin. It's that bad.
Please don't. It's bad enough as it is. :P
I tend to agree with you, based the full-face images. My greatest worry was identifying the die pair by way of helping authenticate the coin....
With all due respect, I've typed half a dozen paragraphs on CAC in the last 24 hours. We discuss them so often around here that it becomes...
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