Some do and some don't. The cheap ones almost always do. I have one that I have owned for 10 years and it never has. But it was quite expensive.
Amanda, all of the hard plastic coin holders are archival.
The buying, and selling, of coins is easy. There is always somebody out there willing to buy whatever you have, and there are always plenty of...
Same way you clean any other coin.
Oh I don't disagree that he expressed the desire for it to happen. I just don't think the responsibility for the designs of 1916 rests with him...
To be honest I was thinking about the coins too - I was concerned with the possibility of detergent residue remaining on the holder, as well as...
For the millions of them that the mint sells, the business strikes, there is no difference at all. They don't. The mint sells the business...
In my opinion, that's all any of us can offer, what you did was not out of line. By the same token I don't think it was very smart either. At...
Well rubbing alcohol is a bad idea because of the varied other chemicals it contains. If I were you and wanted to clean the holders themselves, I...
Frank - Teddy left office in 1909. So it's kind of hard to say he is responsible for the coinage designs in 1916. Yes he was responsible for many...
There is no maybe about it. There is no such law and never has been.
Either way, even if it is genuine, it's a problem coin and ungradeable.
Coins are supposed to always be graded according the worst side. And if you think about it that makes perfect sense.
First of all welcome to the forum ! As for your coin, I'm quite concerned that the coin has been messed with. It appears to be an altered date....
When you consider that all of our US silver coins, and all of our US gold coins, contain copper - that means all of our US coins are subject to...
It's not just PCGS, NGC uses Plus grades as well. And it could be said that both the green (when it applies to A coins), and especially the gold,...
Yeah, they both will. But they will charge you a dollar more for each one, and you are out the Air-Tite. That used to be the charge anyway, it may...
j2 - ask yourself a very simple question. If it is easy, why isn't everybody doing it ?
You trying to talk yourself out of buying it ? Or are you trying to convince me that you don't need it ? If the latter, give up, because you do...
Based on those pics I can't see the coin well enough to offer judgement on the coin itself. But price wise for that grade, yeah you did OK.
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