If I were you I'd just get it graded and forget the cleaning - conservation if you prefer but cleaning is what it is. Here's why. With spots like...
There's two possibilities. The spotting you're seeing, and that's what it is - spotting, was caused by something that got on the coin before it...
No argument on that at all ! I just thought it worth mentioning what I did because not everybody thinks of it. And it needs to be considered.
If you wish to inhibit toning as much as you can use the Intercept Shield products - they actually and will not harm coins or deposit anything on...
As others have already said - the one and only reason to get those coins slabbed is to authenticate them. But here's the thing - a great many...
Nope, I never have. And given what they say - "Metal SAFE block deposits an invisible protective molecular film on all metallic surfaces," - I...
Checking realized prices is great ! And always strongly recommended ! Doing that, that's a huge mistake ! You never want to subtract the fees,...
Give a man a fish and he can eat 1 meal. Teach a man to fish and he can eat for the rest of his life ;)
Well, first ya gotta be aware of and then understand the history behind it all. Ya see, for over 50 years the prices reported in the Grey Sheet...
Geeez ! If I had known that I woulda held off a while just to torment ya a bit :D
Venice - ducat 1400 Obv - Doge kneeling before St. Mark Rev - Christ [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Ya know what Randy, a wise man told me something, two things in fact, about the same time I started collecting coins in 1960. He said that is you...
I would agree with that ! Count your blessings that you've found a good dealer. Agree with that too !
PLEASE - do yourself a favor and practice - A LOT - with some coins you don't care about before you ever use it on any coin you do care about !...
That doesn't surprise me a bit Capt. I'd say it's pretty normal for slicks.
Well that's because you get no respect Rodney, not even from the Tooth Fairy :D
Your numbers are off a bit. Based on the stipulated tolerance the coins could have weighed as little as 12.403 when they left the mint brand new....
Unh huh, and the Tooth Fairy put quarters under your pillow too :rolleyes:
I envy you. I spent 40 years looking for them and never found any. Well, I did find 1 towards the end of my collecting US coins, a '41 set, but at...
I can give you a couple of examples Goldfinger that you can compare to today's prices if you wish. Of course you'll have to take into account...
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