I would *so* vacation there. :P
NGC, for years, was the only TPG grading the New Rochelle Specimen Strikes. I would expect them to know the difference between one of those...
PCGS Pops has the Matte strikes listed in a different category. There are 71 1994's and 135 1997's of those, and I didn't count them. The two I...
Not if the coins we're seeing here are typical. :)
Yes. But when that chip is connected to the rim, we call it a "cud." :) Didn't SPP weigh in on this one, here or elsewhere? His opinion would be...
Yeah, those. They're the typical question context in which I need to research an answer. As to be expected - Heritage lists 23,125 coins when I...
Eventually, the ones who want them for their collections will be the only ones who own them. It's the hoops they have to jump through - and the...
That NGC coin would struggle to make 63 as a Wheatie. [ATTACH]
With the numbers being tossed about in this thread, I choose not to offer an opinion at all aside to mention I haven't seen a number less than two...
Our own @physics-fan3.14 "wrote the book" on clips ten years ago, in the forum post sense. Go here, and learn:...
I would be contemplating the possibility of planchet problems, were it not for corresponding damage on the reverse side. It's plain that whatever...
Contemplate what those letters look like on the die. They're negatives - holes. Planchet metal fills those holes to become letters. It stands to...
Circulation has worn away some of the detail required to be sure, but it certainly presents the correct details for a curved-clip strike. And your...
You don't slab them for yourself; you slab them out of love and respect for your heirs. :) Kinda like making your own funeral arrangements during...
Over the years I've looked at a ton of 70's in Heritage-level resolution during research for one post or another. Of them, PCGS examples show...
My gut/experience suggest to me that the darkest portions of that coin will not be removed before the surfaces are stripped beyond the limit....
That'll work. :) For a coin like this, the potential buyer demographic isn't going to need someone to tell them how to evaluate it anyway.
That was fun, wasn't it? :) Gotta hand it to PCGS, though. They did the right thing for the owner, and you can't blame them for being gun-shy...
Some people seek humor to leaven the typical harshness of life; others avoid it for the opposite reason. Never quite figured out what makes those...
I'm betting the lesser of the two bad ones can be ameliorated to the point of salability, with appropriate disclosure. The worst one, well, you'd...
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