It has been 25 years since USPS received a cent of government subsidy. They're losing $5 Billion a year because of the retirement fund mandate,...
Yeah, and as a cleaned coin it cannot make XF40, or any other grade, by the measure you specified. Sort of an unwanted consequence of the Minimum...
There is an enormous lot of information available from scans. They are as good as any camera at illustrating the coin's technical details, and...
There isn't much that's capable of reacting chemically with acetone; it's used as a cleaning agent for aluminum, for instance. It does make one...
I couldn't sell something like that. It would have to have a place of honor on the desk, watching over my activities. :)
"Min Grade" means you told them not to slab it if it was below a certain grade; cleaned coins don't make that grade either way.
Wow. He seems to have an idea how this stuff works. :)
So perhaps the software patent atmosphere has evolved into a place where such a process isn't patentable and this one would evaporate in court. I...
It'll make the grade easily if the surfaces pass. That doesn't look very likely, but the TPG might feel differently. This is key, for a Registry...
All a slab should be is a way to allow you to buy a coin you can trust without necessarily seeing it first, and a grade doesn't exist until you...
How can you people do this? Grading Ikes is like grading a bowl of grits - it's all mush. :P
Clear spread, no apparent shelving, equal strokes between feature and duplicate. Yep, it's a DDO. :)
Well, in numismatics "luster" is a strictly-defined technical term describing specifically the cartwheel diffused-light effect caused by...
It's what some people do to new members around here. They are the enemy of the hobby (and themselves), because they don't want to encourage newer...
Well, let's get to VAMming. :D
This isn't "tried to get." This patent was issued to PCGS in 1992.
You have better control over the environment than he does, and therefore better command of contrast. He's in a larger space, with many more...
If you wouldn't pay the money yourself, you've no foundation upon which to base an argument on why people should. "I wouldn't be taken advantage...
I see what could be a little rim on the side opposite the counterstamp; maybe an original Cent ground down?
Honestly, if I were that type I'd probably do Lincolns. That's because I *am* the variety-hunting type, and Lincolns abound in the miscellaneous...
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