For future reference Razz, to see it and understand it, picture in your minds eye that dies have to be perfectly aligned with each other on all...
Glad ya posted that John because it brings up the point that had so far not been mentioned. Namely that laminations, when deemed severe, result in...
And so does everybody else. That's because values for these are driven more by personal emotion than they are by normal determining factors. My...
Barely.
Answer - misaligned dies. Close examination of the rim on both sides of the coin explains it. It's easy to see in your minds eye once you look at...
The one that gives you about 8 different pricing sources at a single glance - Heritage. Look at all of them, average them out, then add 25% to...
That depends on one's perspective. As someone who has spent his whole life studying coins, I'd have to say that learning that a lot of the time...
Is it ? What folks should learn from this is that sometimes, maybe even a lot of times, there just isn't any definitive answer as to how marks got...
Just as a reminder - he has stated several times over the years that he does not take pictures of the entire coin because with the scope he's...
That's the kind of stuff that rewrites the books, so for me anyway it was always a pleasure to run across one. I imagine it is for you too :) But...
You're preaching to the choir ! https://www.cointalk.com/threads/time-for-a-change-in-our-change.170/ That, and its success, that taught me a...
Anybody and everybody who bids in auctions SHOULD know it - it's your responsibility to know it ! It's a bit more than that actually, it's THE...
Lemme ask a question, would you rather they go back to doing the things the way they used to do them ? No new designs at all, for decade after...
"Passed" equates to pulled as you mentioned - which means an item is removed from the auction. But I suspect that they marked it as sold because...
Personally, I would never ship a coin (and pay both ways) and then on top of that pay someone to put that coin in a slab - when I can do it myself...
On that coin, some are die polish lines, some are not.
In some ways yes. But when you look closely it becomes obvious that it isn't for a couple of reasons. For one a lamination cannot result in raised...
I don't believe they are stable. In general, values on US coins have been steadily dropping for 12 years now, with only minor upticks along the...
I always did as well. I have bought many coins for my collection that cost but a few dollars - because I liked them and for no other reason. And...
No, it wasn't. But since so very, very many equate rarity with value, it is worth pointing out that the two, rarity and value, often have nothing...
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