You Visigoth... You Philistine... PS: It deserves the details grade.
Co-signer is a loan term, you mean consigner. Unfortunately attributions are only as good as the attributor and the various TPGs have all had on...
Nah, just block whichever one you hate the most and then it's a lot more fun to read the threads...
PCI COIN GRADING, INC has filed annual reports with the State of Florida which are available from the search page... but all they show is Dennis...
Sure, but you need a story... let's see...
I'm voting road rash!
From my notes... ----- February 2008 ---- PCI Out of business, assets purchased by David Lawrence Rare Coins ----- 8 April 2008 ---- DGS became...
Not even close. DL bought the assets from bankruptcy and opened a new service, DGS using the PCI style shells. However, once they closed it, they...
Be aware that there seems to be a lot of material coming to market recently. One of the dealers (Fred Lake?) announced that they have stopped...
Not a prayer. The coiner, assayer, etc. were not legal employees of the US Mint.
OK, I was there on the second day @ the NGC booth 15m before the second day sales window opened. There was ZERO other traffic. Nobody hurrying to...
That's not a parody, that's just a news report.
The problem is that even common dates have rare die marriages. Which jacks the price up from 'common'.
All of the services have their bad days. It's just with some of them, every day is a bad day except for the worse days. I have an MMNS 3CS graded...
Nobody knows who PCI is anymore. Again a case where the very oldest slabs (green border, 3 codes on the back) were more strictly graded. Then...
I think it's stupid. The label should be irrelevant to the value of the coin. There's also a lot of malarkey floating here... NGC's slabs are...
0.933g
I'm pretty sure that's just PSD (Post Strike Damage). If it were a gouge in the die, then it would be sticking up from the eagle's breast...
Like you never saw a "No Trespassing" sign and blew through it to see what was so special on the other side????
Plus proofs are made more carefully, so the "perfect" PF70 is much less rare than the almost perfect uncirculated MS69. NGC graded 558 MS69s and...
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