Awww gee Kurt, glad to do it. Why I'd even do the same thing for somebody I liked :D
Good Lord I haven't seen you around here in what seems like a 100 years ! :) Either I really am gettin old - or time's flyin !
Toning, if allowed to progress unchecked, will do that to copper, and silver coins too.
It's not a sticker it's a card that was inserted into the opposite side of the flip. And no, I was not the submitter. I just happened to save the...
In this case, it didn't affect it at all. A scratch, in and of itself, cannot drop a grade from MS to AU. A scratch is either judged severe enough...
Common name - corrosion, many different causes.
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Questionable color is what PCGS has pretty much always called it. And they have used that term because they know, and have always known, that...
I have absolutely no doubt they would. Over the years they've graded a rather large number of them. In fact it's a pretty safe bet that most of...
Lemme ask you a basic question Joe. Coin values have been dropping steadily for 8 years now. And before that coin values were rising steadily for...
In case you missed it, all of the coins in that collection are slabbed and cleanly graded by PCGS. Including the coin being discussed in this...
You know how long that "talk" has been around ? Lemme give ya a hint - longer than I've been alive. Now, lemme give ya some facts to go with...
Yes, there are diagnostics by which all the Russian counterfeits can be positively identified. Problem is, only a few people know those...
Well I guess that depends on what you call recent memory and precipitous decline. I posted graphs for the last 3 yrs, 10 yrs, and 46 yrs. And...
If you're just sharing information, OK, great. But if your comments are somehow in response to my posts, well, I'm not sure what your point is...
The Russians minting the Netherlands ducats was absolutely nothing even remotely similar to the 1898 Mexican peso re-strikes. In the first place...
You sure about that ? [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
That little short sentence is the whole issue in a nutshell. So what's answer ? Well, that depends on who you ask. And when you do, just make...
You're right, I haven't see that one in hand. But I sure have seen a whole lot of others that looked a lot like it in hand.
That's pretty simple, stored under the right conditions. And yeah I know, you want to know what conditions. Problem is there are so many variables...
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