Is it ? Or is it the way it is done in the real world ? By doing your homework BEFORE you do it of course. No this was not specifically...
When it comes to grading - sometimes they will cross, sometimes up-grade, sometimes down-grade. There are several different generations of the...
First of all, as you can all see, the thread is locked. Secondly, let me correct something - nobody can read other member's PMs. And nobody...
Who, me ? o_O Nahhh, I was a little angel :singing: I was one of "those" kids. Had an older sister and brother, 6 and 8 years older - I started...
I do not disagree with that at all, none the less it did happen. Drake for instance attacked the Spanish ships so often that the Spanish began to...
My observations are that they are not "age biased" at all, but rather lax with everything in today's world. Even so, once in a while, they still...
I think you've got the right basic idea - that being two different punches were used, one fresh and new and the other old and worn. This kind of...
OK, let's talk about documented fact. Between 1503 and 1660, 400,000 pounds of gold (avoirdupois, not Troy) and 40,000,000 pounds of silver were...
OMG don't you start too !
Yes, I'd grade it a 30 - the rev does not measure up to 35. And if both coins were over-graded that would make perfect sense. This one, I'd...
The Netherlands, and the coin of course was the Netherlands gold ducat ;)
Well there was that time when a few pieces of the roof over my lab in the attic ended up the neighbors' yards, but that's only because I wasn't in...
You're new here, so obviously you don't understand. But that is, shall we say, my seal of approval. In other words the coin is graded correctly.
You won't hear this often - that coin gets [ATTACH]
mlubao - maybe this will help with understanding. Your basic question was regarding the British monetary unit of a pound and a corresponding coin...
Planchet flaws, when severe enough, all by themselves, are sufficient and legitimate reason for a coin to be considered damaged and put in a...
You just did.
Ever since the world's very first mint the concept of seigniorage has been in place. In other words, coins were never supposed to be worth their...
To be honest with you I quit messing around with chemistry after I had figured out how to make nitroglycerin from scratch when I was 8 years old....
On this we disagree. First of all, I've personally seen to many examples of a coin getting a whitish cast (a completely unnatural look) to them...
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