Hmm - guess I'm not seeing what you are guys are seeing. If the luster is intact I'd expect the coin to grade 63, maybe even 64 on a good day.
Amen !
What about the 2 on the shoulder, the 6 lighter hits on the collar, the 3 on the cheek bone, the heavy one in the eyebrow, the 3 on the forehead,...
It's pretty simple really, it's because that objective methodology you mention does not exist. There is no way to differentiate between NT and AT...
Seeing the coins, and reading all of the reports on the forums from the people who bought the coins. They even had articles about it in the coin...
What do you think I'm talking about them bragging about ? I'm agreeing with ya eddie ;) But shhhhhh, don't tell anybody !
Oh I dunno, there might come a time when I just have to. That happened with silvereagle ya know - any ya barely see him around at all anymore ;)
OK that does it. I'm getting my aluminum hat back out ! :D
Go slooooowly, be careful. You might get a few surprises.
More than a few I suspect ;)
Patience ! For every coin you find there are 10 more you haven't found yet ;)
If he did he got took.
Those are sets put together and sold by a private company, not by the US Mint. As such they have no value in particular.
I see what you saying. And normally I'd never question a single thing you said. But to my knowledge, the only coins marked with VIII in the entire...
Things change ;) If you go back far enough you'll find right on this forum, let alone all of the others and those that no longer even exist, my...
Among collectors, bragging rights have always been one of the primary reasons for collecting to begin with. Been that way since the first coin was...
dct is right about one thing if nothing else - you can't compare world coins to US coins when it comes to price. It just can't be done. There is...
A $600 ask for that coin doesn't surprise me in the least. Would I pay it ? Not in a million years. But I've seen a thousand others who probably...
That is partly why I asked you in the other post about the dates. In 2005 when they first started producing the satin Mint Sets the quality of the...
In one sentence you say that you don't know how I can say that the TPGs loosened up their grading standards. But in the very next sentence you say...
Separate names with a comma.