It seems to me that there would be a lot of ways to accelerate wear artificially so that no one could tell the difference. For example, you could...
I'd leave it in the slab for authentication purposes. I'm too worried about counterfeits, even of common stuff, to buy this type of coin raw....
I think it's a sister company of PGCS.
I love the surfaces, especially on the reverse. It looks like it's starting to retone.
It's actually the $100,000 note you are referring to. Even though there was no $1M bill, $100,000 during the early 1930's would be more than $1M...
Auction records are where it's at. I've stopped using other price guides. Personally I think the advent of online auction data has rendered...
There are round coins, square coins, scalloped coins, holed coins, etc. etc. that are used as money somewhere in the world. A ball, however, is...
Wear and bag marks are also damage, technically speaking, and we have a objective scale (sort of...) for quantifying that. It's interesting how...
That was my first thought also. It's still the currency of a communist nation that is into major manipulation of not only its currency but of its...
I would take a "first strike" 1793 Chain cent, not only for the value but also because nobody in our day has ever seen the true mint red color of...
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