A couple of things here. While videos work well for trying to show the luster on a coin, they really don't work very well when trying to show...
Precisely, they are no where near as hard as tool steel, or knife steel.
Fingerprints are so common on MS coins that it is beyond common. My comments had nothing to do with the fingerprint. They had to do with all the...
Nope I'm not. They have apparently added a bunch they will slab. But that won't slab that Frankie that much is for sure. They will slab -...
Well one things for sure, even if it is genuine it's only worth melt. That thing has been polished to death.
For me, it depends on the coin somewhat. Many of them I can authenticate and grade with no problem. But more than anything it depends on the...
OK Chris, we'll do it your way. But that's page 1. When I did a search, of just the Coin Chat section, I came up with a 293 threads about tokens....
OK, but I've never once seen that (third party shipper) on any coin auction. And as a seller who has used Heritage myself, I always had to send...
Dies are not as hard as you seem to think. There are literally thousands of examples of coins that have raised marks on them from die scratches....
Oh I knew that based on your poll options. And yes I am amazed - again. No way that they should have graded that coin with that reverse.
There's a reason they have never slabbed one, it's because they (PCGS) do not recognize that variety. PCGS will only attribute and note on the...
Ya left one out Chris - this one, Coin Chat. As it says in the description of the section - Please use this section for discussion of...
They did, but that scanner was controlled by a computer program that interpreted what the scanner saw.
First of all, I want you to understand that I am telling you this for your own good. I am not saying it to offend you in any way. I am only trying...
It was a computer program that was written specifically to grade coins. And there was more than 1 company who tried it. They were all dismal...
This thread kind of reminds me of a phrase often used by just about everyone when discussing just about any subject - "the good old days". Well,...
They are always shipped by Heritage themselves. Heritage has to have possession of the coins or they won't put them into the auction.
No, you're correct. I screwed up. When I looked it up in the French red book I forgot they separate the gold and silver coins into different...
It is not uncommon for coins stored in those after market holders to tone like that. They look perfectly normal to me. It's something about the...
This is found on the US Mint's web site - http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/index.cfm?action=coin_specifications
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