It's conceivable; I've never tried to bring back a fully black coin (the most important step in conservation is deciding what to conserve) and...
Silver Trimes are fun. :) They're so small that consistent strikes were actually very difficult. You commonly see them with entire segments of...
Wait, what?
I think the argument is that EDS and LDS versions aren't the same dies, not that some progression problem is happening.
That's another point. I'm still, frankly, kinda laughing inside at the idea of PCGS bragging that less than a third of their coins were...
Well, I need to learn things I apparently don't know, then. To me, "damage" implies not being reversible, at least in a numismatic sense. Toning...
With the understanding that it makes me throw up in my mouth a little to take this position.... If there were "market consensus" that artificial...
But it's not Mint State, and by the definition of "Mint State" can never be Mint State again. It did not come from the Mint that way. I would...
He doesn't care what is known, only what he "knows." It's difficult to prove something to someone who won't accept new information. There is good...
Actually, you just did.
Well, if we're going to police Ebay via rules of morality rather than legality - since artificial toning isn't "illegal" by any definition - we...
You're seeing it clearly. What PCGS isn't saying is that there were 1936 of their slabs sold at that auction....wonder how many of them failed to...
Toning is "damage" now? When was that law passed?
Clickable link to view the stolen coins; they're as advertised in Larry's "For Sale" listings:...
A lump of silver shaped like a volcano. For that, I could abandon my lifelong ambition to own an 1893-S Morgan. Not.
The worst of it is, the Mint is by nature a moneymaking enterprise. Their incompetence is greatly inhibiting their ability to make money; a better...
Free the....pizzas.
194 and 195 share an obverse but not a reverse, and as these things go those two reverses are very similar. Just like the T-I relationships and...
Thank you. There's no other explanation which makes more sense than for these to be OMM's - if they're convenient "die cracks," why three similar...
There appear to be noticeable differences in the curvature of the right vine stem, as well, and the fraction bar is clearly and indisputably...
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