And I don't blame ya :D Woulda done the same thing had the opportunity presented itself ;)
I saw quite a few, I agreed with their grade most of the time, but not always. But did you ever think that their being conservative is exactly...
I agreed with just about everything you said, until you said this. This company - http://www.davidhall.com/ - existed for 10 years before PCGS...
John - There is no definitive answer, no right or wrong, to the question of how the dollar sign originated. All anybody has is a theory, an...
Shouldn't do that. Form your own opinion regardless of what anybody else says. That's how you learn.
And I didn't say it was post mint damage. You're assuming again, putting words into my mouth. Planchet quality is a grading criteria. Dents, left...
My grade - 64. Their grade - who knows ?
I'm inclined to agree. But then not everybody knows where to look, or even how to look, to do that homework. Some of them just need pointed in the...
Paul I readily agree that there is subjectivity between any 2 people (assuming they both know how to grade) who grade the same coin. But the vast...
Brandon - First of all I readily agree that there is no single standard of grading followed by everybody, least of all the TPGs. Each TPG has...
We are in agreement ;)
No, they are not. Easy, it is because every year new dies are made. And the dies made this year, can be slightly different (have different die...
On the obv - red circles are around areas with light wear. The blue is around a weakly struck area. Anbody that looks should be able to see the...
Mike, I don't expect perfection out of the TPGs, never have. What I do expect is a certain level of consistency, and a maintaining of their...
There was no I used in the Potosi mint mark, just the PTS. Sources that say otherwise are wrong. I already told you what theory I think to be...
Damaged coins cannot be graded, assigned a grade number. Instead, they are judged by the amount of detail on the coin and labeled like this - VF...
Well, we're talking about coins, not the various things used as money. And to me, for something to be considered as being a coin in early history,...
I'll be there, looking forward to meeting those I have not had the chance to meet yet. If anybody wants to find me, just look for the guy wearing...
No, it couldn't. The Potosi mint mark is quite simple, a P, a T, and an S, superimposed over one another. All of the Spanish colonial mints used a...
Let's see if I can get those grey cells spinnin around. Tell me what you see in the circled areas in the following pictures. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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