Then you need to change your way of thinking because it simply is not true ! Are there some battleship grey coins that have been harshly cleaned...
For me, it never mattered how much I took with me. It was never enough.
Well unless you just bought it, no. And if you did just buy it, no. Why ? Because you don't know how. And I certainly hope you did not just buy...
Dollar value. The PCGS 3000 is made up of a group of 3000 coins chosen to indicate o rrepresent the movement in value of the coin market as a...
Well when you consider that the battle that inspired the poem didn't take place until Sept. of 1814, And Key wrote those lyrics when he saw the...
Any hardware store will carry it, any paint store will, or places like Home Depot and Lowes.
True, but it was pretty much limited to those coins that were only worth the value of their gold or silver content to begin with. For example, if...
This should tell you what happened in 2008 - [ATTACH]
No you never want to do that ! You never want to wipe or even touch the surface of the coin with anything. Read this thread Amanda -...
What they are worth - no. What they grade - sometimes they don't have any choice on that. For once they are stolen, damaged, or gone, it's kind of...
I don't think they are die polish lines, and I suspect that is why you found it in a junk bin. If you look at the different pics when they are...
Not Numismedia - Numismaster. A huge difference.
Now ya see ? A perfect example of reactions from those who don't really know me - much like my family's. But that is because my family doesn't...
Ahhhh - cynics of the world unite ! Could have written that myself Mike :D Seriously though, there is little in this world that you could not say...
And if you crack it and send it in again it is just as likely to be graded and slabbed as put in another Genuine slab. This is one of the...
And I forgot to add APEs in my comments. Doesn't matter, bullion is bullion.
Proofs yes, as for business strikes, only 1 has ever been found. But there were over 35,000 high relief business strikes minted. They were...
wheaty - when it comes to AGEs and ASEs most dealers don't care if they are slabbed 70, 69 or 35. To them it is still just a chunk of bullion just...
That's one way of putting it Thad. But I think when push comes to shove what they are really worried about is people claiming that they are...
If you post something like that about a coin slabbed by PCGS, on the PCGS forum, those kind of posts have a habit of disappearing. Didn't always...
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