Nope. MS... here's a good example:...
Serious question: Why is eBay littered with common US pennies and nickels of no particular distinction that have been graded and slabbed? These...
I have bought a few improperly cleaned NGC slabbed coins just to get specimens with excellent details that I could not otherwise afford. It seems...
Would it be correct to say that improperly cleaned coins often have a "grainy" shiny surface, as opposed to a perfectly smooth, shiny surface?
Wow... at this point would I be better off just to throw it out into the back yard for a few years? Is there any hope of reclaiming the...
As a new collector, I am trying to learn the ropes as it relates to cleaned coins. I've already acclimated to the idea that a coin can be minted,...
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This is exactly the kind of opinionated, pedantic discussion of minute details I like to see in a forum about a hobby. You guys rock. Thanks for...
The info I found from PCGS related to flips specifically concerned PVC flips. Only caution on Mylar was inserting and removing the coin. I'll use...
Since the TPGs maintain searchable registries of slabbed coins including the number available, does anyone care that a good number of those slabs...
I may as well bring this concern over here, as well, as it got no play in another thread. Someone said mylar flips should not be used because the...
Noooo... I was just joking about that. Part of the joy of a hobby for me is the time spent organizing and caring for what I've collected, and if...
The coins I currently have that aren't slabbed are in all of those, but I plan to use 2 x 2 mylar flips with the coin in one side and an insert in...
If I want to properly label my coins, what info should be included on the holder? I'd like to label them in such a way that if I die and my wife...
Seriously, for coins which are stored in rows in a box or case and largely undisturbed except for occasional viewing, is wear due to movement in 2...
As a FNG, I have never used the cotton gloves, but I use these since I buy them already for gun cleaning: http://tinyurl.com/kuae8uc I have some...
Those are the ones, Green18. I paid for one, and the guy threw in the other two for ten bucks because he needed to unload them.
I really have no interest in US Mint proofs in the nice velvet clamshell, etc. But at least they are a relatively dignified setting for a coin. I...
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