It's a fairly short list. PVC residue, tape residue, fresh (and only fresh ones) fingerpints, fingernail polish, and some types of paint. That's...
Your question was valid and you've received your answer. But for future use keep this thought in mind - there's actually only a few things that...
Just from reading various posts in coin forums for about 20 years it seems that when it comes to storage many collectors make their choices based...
In different books and articles on the subject the definition of billon varies greatly depending on the author and the particular time period in...
Yeah good luck with that.
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That's why I started my comments with -
While that could be true it is not necessarily always true. Wear can occur anywhere on a coin and often does. Even the fields, which are the...
Agreed. But if one knows how you can tell the difference between weak strike and wear. Also, the 1st 3 coins I pictured all have wear on the...
I could post thousands of pictures of coins in TPG slabs graded as MS, but they have breaks in the luster and are not MS at all. So posting pics...
It might only have them one side because whoever did it did a better job on one side than the other. But from what I can see it's an alteration...
It might be helpful if you posted a link when you say things like that....
It appears that at least some do not know or at the least do not understand why the definition of an uncirculated coin is so simple and...
Air-Tites come in a whole lot more sizes than that ! There are at least 35 different sizes, and that's just the standard sizes....
THAT, and only that, is the definition of uncirculated !
At the time paid $1800 for it, which was a good bit below what was top dollar for the common versions of the Rose Noble. As for value today - I...
Not everybody may realize it but cob coins were not struck the way they were because of any lack of technology. The technology to mint coins quite...
Yeah I know, I feel exactly the same way about them that you do. I just couldn't resist doing that :D
It is an 1583 Netherlands Rose Noble, struck at the Gorinchem mint, Delmonte number - 825bis. As an interesting note, it is listed in Delmonte as...
In fairness it's been a long time since I collected them so things may have changed. That said, when I was collecting them there typically was no...
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