My only contention is, just how many "clerical errors" does it take to lose faith in the TPG's reliability? They're either blowing the attribution...
That's the excuse the TPG would use, anyways.
All true. I've gone the route of learning the intricacies of small-scale diffusion to eliminate the hotspots in the first place, rather than the...
Two skills are at play in this thread: grading coins, and evaluating high-resolution images of coins. Not everyone has both skills. High-res...
All 1893-S coins are Far Date, and the mint mark is in the wrong place, and the slab is fake. Your imagery might perhaps have distorted the coin's...
It bears mentioning that, using images as large as a dSLR can produce for coins, there's no darn reason at all to even mess with RAW for stuff...
I wish I could get jaded and cynical about stories like this since it happens so often, but it hurts just as much to hear every time.
A clash is polished away by polishing the fields of the die where it happened. As you polish, you lower the level of the field. If you overdo...
I'd find the "clash polishing" explanation a lot more believable if there were anything from the reverse which could clash in that area of the...
Keep in mind, every one of us who uses dSLR's with dedicated lenses for coin photography starts out with an image like this before posting. Justin...
No need. All 1893-S Morgans have a Far Date. This coin does not. There is not a chance it's a genuine 1893-S. It might be a genuine Morgan with...
Not from that seller. Not with stolen money. Not even in an ANACS slab.
Yes, and looking at XF45. :shame: You'd hate to live in my head. :)
Back when I was sniping heavily, I learned that doing it successfully by myself was sheer luck in the presence of sniping programs. So I switched...
I derive the majority of my enjoyment of VAMs simply from attributing them. It's plain that I'll never be able to collect any significant number...
Anecdote of an equally-disheartening recent auction incident in my own life: I watched a set of 3 Lincolns on Ebay for 8 days until I had the...
I think National Collectors Mint has come up with an attractive way for NGC to move old stock slabs. All NGC has to do is prostitute themselves to...
This is a coin where one would reasonably look to Ebay sales results for a price indication. There are 63 relevant Sold results on Ebay for this...
PCGS' Auction Prices site indicates that 8 of the 18 sold in the last year (since Oct 2015) have hammered over $10,000....the cheapest during that...
Here's the date of Snow-1: [ATTACH] ....and Snow-2: [ATTACH] These should help you determine which, if either, you have.
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