If you follow their submission rules, you can't. Highly doubtful, in the time it takes for the coin to leave you, get to the TPG, and get...
I won't disagree. But, there are probably only a handful of people who have access to a scale that is capable of detecting that weight difference.
There is one and only one thing that determines if a coin is uncirculated - wear. If the coin has no wear then it is uncirculated. It doesn't...
His options are to exercise patience and only buy coins that have been graded correctly. Or, you can buy over-graded but correctly priced coins....
To be honest, I really don't see a whole lot of difference.
But have they ? People use the excuse (and that's all it is, an excuse) that TPG grading standards have loosened because coins have gone up in...
You don't need a full year's subscription, but you do need about 6 different issues to cover all coins. And you don't need to buy new issues. You...
And - many coins are really only worth a fraction of what it says they are worth in the Red Book. So you don't want to buy coins based on Red Book...
Yeah, they do. Because the plastic is not soft it has hard, sharp edges. So when you put the coin into or take it out of the flips those edges...
Understand this, there are many different kinds of spots. Carbon spots are just one of them. Yeah, it's a name that people throw around all the...
You don't buy the books for the photos, forget the photos. Trying to learn to grade based on pictures is about the worst thing you could do !...
In addition to what USS said - you might want to consider keeping the set intact in its original packaging. Every year there is getting to be...
Yes there are, in the PCGS grading book. Doubt it would matter because to my knowledge carbon spots cannot be removed. Even if you dip a coin...
The guy I was responding to seemed to think the coins were made out of a solid alloy. The first part of my comment plainly says that most people...
Gorgeous color, does it look like that in hand ?
To a large degree most of the value in the gold coins is melt value, that's about $3k give or take. So the rest of the cost is for the ASE -...
No, it isn't. It pertains to spots period - any kind of spots - which of course includes carbon spots. It is published in their book of grading...
There's a couple of reasons. First and foremost is cost, soft flips are cheaper to make and thus cheaper to buy. Secondly, but perhaps even more...
Fair enough Chris.
Actually there are guidelines given in the PCGS grading standards. But it has been my experience that PCGS rarely follows their own published...
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