You would be far, far better served by either a professional advisor (advice here is worth what you pay for it) or going to the sources...
Yep
There is more than a little truth to @paddyman98 's jest. Manufacturing coins is a giant industrial process on a scale that is hard to imagine....
It's a two-fold problem. Circulation quality coins are sold in sets, rolls, and bags every year. Those often get picked over and all but the best...
And for non-precious metals, only 95% of the coins must be within tolerance for the entire batch to pass. You need to read the enabling...
+/-0.13g
Planchet A Planchette is used with an Ouiji board
Minshull Trading is one of the largest US coin dealers out there. https://minshulltrading.com/
We've gone back and forth on this ATS, there's one idjit who keeps posting about VB. To me it is clearly an illegal lottery, but nobody has yet...
Denis' nickel is type 1, 16 characters, thus graded before April 1, 2000 0039156200370116 123456789.123456 PCGS# 003915 Grade 62 Serial 00370116
Conder101's post ATS https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/256678/sizes-of-anacs-slabs describes these. BTW ANACS and I disagree with...
We were just chatting on the other thread. NCI had their own grading standards and a book on them. Still used the Sheldon numbers, but the...
It can be eye opening to read old grading guides and see what were the focuses. The ANA Grading Standards. PhotoGrade. The NCI book. Penny...
I'm assuming it was from the time they were still considered upstanding members of the numismatic community. Is there a date on the certificate?
Honestly, I doubt John and Jane Q. Public cared. Money was money. Until it wasn't (cue.: ominous music, darkening clouds in the sky - the...
The soapbox or SWH covers a two different ownerships and a range of grading practices. ANACS ownership (first of the 2 letters 4 numbers) grades...
@MIGuy BUZZ but thanks for playing. The photo cert is ANICS not ANACS.
Looks plated. Rotate the rim and see if there are any nicks or dings - if they show copper, that's your answer. If there are deep ones where...
NECRO POST ALERT - THREAD FROM 2006 But since it was brought back to life: History of Moffat & Co (although PCGS only lists their coins)...
It might be a very individual hobby - what kind of objects interest the individual? Maybe low value foreign coins with different numbers of sides...
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