It's a matter of definitions. There is a huge difference between being a collector and dealer. And there is a huge difference between buying a...
Would you say I know coins Duke ? I sold two entire collections in my lifetime - lost money on both of them. Why ? Because there's more to it...
Older price guides - how much older ? Looking at the market as a whole, if you bought coins between 1986 and now, and still held them, then about...
Best advice I can give you - quit looking for deals or bargains. Instead concentrate your efforts on studying the market and look for fair prices...
Precisely. Nuglet, do you realize that if you were take a slabbed ASE graded 70 into a dealer and try to sell it to him that all he is going to...
If a coin is in a slab that says Cleaned then the coin has been harshly cleaned. The TPG's just use the 1 word because of space restrictions on...
OK, but why would verdigris being on the coin (there are little specks of it all over the coin by the way) make you think it had been cleaned ?...
If they did not keep what they do and how they do it a secret, then there wouldn't be much need for them would there ? The company is a business,...
Based on that picture I see no signs of harsh cleaning, nor do I see anything to make think it has been cleaned at all.
Not yet it isn't. The bill has merely been introduced, they are trying to make it a law.
Sending out the emails is probably why they were sold out.
Let me clarify one thing to make sure you understand - there is a huge difference between cleaned, and harshly cleaned. Cleaned is perfectly...
Yeah, and thousands of coins in SGS slabs graded MS70 have sold for hundreds of dollars on ebay. Does that even remotely make you think those SGS...
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The point I was trying to make is that error collectors only make up a very small percentage of the total number of coin collectors. And because...
Yeah, but so what ? They graded waffled coins too and those are nothing but a screwed up coin that was rejected by quality control at the mint and...
I don't think it would make any difference because to begin with, mineral oil would have virtually no effect on the verdigris.
One thing you need to understand about error coins, while you may think it's worth $400, they are plenty of others who wouldn't pay over $10 for...
What makes you think that coin is an error ? And what kind of error ?
What I think is that you need to re-think a few things. First of all that appears to be heavy verdigris on the coin, and mineral oil will have...
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