There's a certain set of coin forums - y'all probably know all of them - which I read every day. Between them, any breaking numismatic news will...
In truth, I think some of his stuff is kinda pedestrian and some of it is downright wonderful. The Denver Commem (as posted here earlier) is one...
It has never been easier to personally leverage a retail audience for your coins to sell. No real reason to include a middleman who will have to...
I'm not really a fan of Moderns but this coin shows an absolutely dynamite strike. The obverse has the slightest flatness at the very highest...
My first question is, what are they measuring for the weight? Are they including all the bills, albums and packaging? How much of that "218lbs"...
VAMs are the variety identifiers for Morgan Dollars, similar to Overtons for Bust Halves and Shendons for early copper, etc. The names of the two...
If I am being perceived as attacking people and not ideas, I will back the heck off. It just bothers me to see such intelligence and energy...
Your opinion - your right, of course - doesn't change the fact that Heritage has only ever offered 5 attributed examples of this variety out of...
This. Makes being a counterfeit unlikely. Die cracks do not transfer well if the counterfeit is created that way, and the cracks on this coin are...
You might wish to reevaluate a bit.
And your hate is as impotent as the FTC. They, on the other hand, actually matter and can do some good if we can motivate them. You, not so much.
Go look up the value of some MS70's. The earlier ones, pre-1990. There are a few across denominations, and they are worth paying for.
There *are* 70's which are genuine Condition Rarities and worth quite the premium if you get a real 70 (TPG records are hardly perfect on the...
Every_single_day Ebay does more damage - in direct violation of HPA - to numismatics than Dan Carr could in an entire lifetime, yet he gets 13...
ROFL. I feel your pain. :-) I do expect any professional grader to know the S VDB well enough to know those pickups, which is why I'm unworried...
That is Position #4, the lowest and least-tilted of the 4. It looks appropriate in your slab images, so between that and PCGS' involvement we'll...
N No way of knowing. Done right, dipping is undetectable except possibly with a chemical sniffer - it does not detectably alter the expected...
You nailed it with the former commonality of dipping. Toning has not always been a desirable trait on a coin, and when people say "virtually every...
It's possible, but keep in mind that dip is acid which literally eats a layer of metal off the coin. A given coin can only stand so many seconds...
Maybe it's only the imagery, but neither the mint mark (serifs should be parallel) or the B of VDB (center crossbar should be tilted) look correct...
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