Why have we just continued a 5-year-old discussion?
OK, I'm getting dizzier by the minute. A double struck coin fully in collar for both strikes usually all but obliterates the previous strike. And...
True that - ten of them are 55 or above - but ten more are VF or below, plainly circulated heavily. There's 24, not 23 - I missed a PR58 Open 3....
Quick, simplistic rundown of the process (at least back then): Artist sculpts an exact rendering of the coin much larger than original for ease...
Anyone who wanted, in that conversation, could have checked PCGS Populations and found that they've graded 23 1873 Proofs in grades below 60. That...
Just add another s and another d and you'll have me. I'm SuperDave all over; when BiggFredd passed a few years back, I doubled the S and D in my...
For the record, Insider, although I've been a member here for a long time, during the ten years I was active and moderating at CCF I essentially...
I will be frank, and hope that this doesn't offend because that's not my intent. There are strong similarities between techniques like this, and...
I wouldn't have any objection to that - TPG's provide a vital layer of trustworthy (theoretically) authentication and consistent (theoretically)...
Those would have been my words if I got there first. :)
The Chinese do stuff like this all the time. :)
I don't care if the toning is so brilliant it completely bypasses my optical system and directly impacts the visual processing area of my brain,...
With the side benefit of driving CAC out of business, because if everything they slab can get a Bean, nobody will feel they need CAC any longer....
Yeah, "Questionable Color." And it's getting tougher to get a raw toner into a slab.
Counterfeiting in the Age of Ebay is not like what you've learned from the past. These days, fakes don't_need to be accurate. They need to move in...
I wonder if you need a copper oxide surface first? Green copper roofs proceed thru copper oxide first.
Bull. You haven't faced too many modern counterfeiters, I take it?
Keep in mind, a "cut" is going to raise displaced metal. You would expect an impact to be a "positive" on the coin as well as a "negative." And...
Snerk. You could probably get everything from AU to MS68 into it. :D
It's a common tool for counterfeiters.
Separate names with a comma.
