Nor would they ever be asked to do so, nor should they ever be asked. It is never left up to a jury to decide if a law is constitutional or not...
While I wholeheartedly disagree with your idea regarding the marking of copies - the idea is to mark them in such a way that it is easily visible...
I think they were generous with the grade. As to your lights. Do you have pics with all of them turned on ? The shadows on the left make it...
Tell me about this book. What is the full title, the author, and what is the publishing date ? As for the coin, I would call it a 12 because of...
As I said, gold content. It weighs 3.5gr and is made of .983 gold.
Yes, they were primarily used by the Russian Treasury for payments abroad, especially in the Near East. They were also used to pay Russian troops...
There is no nickel in that coin. It was made of .9170 silver with the balance being mostly copper.
Yes that's the coin and yes the seller has been told it is a counterfeit. He apparently didn't care. In answer to your other question yes the...
It doesn't really need to. That fake I posted is 170 years old and it's still fooling people.
It's a Spanish 1 reale struck at the Seville mint. Has no great value, maybe $50 in that condition, but still a quite nice coin. Must admit...
Can the TPGs make mistakes and slab counterfeits ? You bet, but they don't do it very often. But even today those mistakes do happen. Of course...
It's not the conditions where you live that matters. What matters is how you alter those conditions. In other words, proper storage is what...
Both companies have copied back and forth from each other with some ideas since they opened the doors for business. At the same time they have...
I always used Air-Tites, they worked quite well with hammered coins. The ring insert always accommodated any irregularity nicely.
DUH ! I never even noticed what he said about the weight :o
I dunno, I consider a realized price of $700 for a fake pretty dang enthusiastic.
Really ! Surprised at that, I expected they had graded it.
For one thing the Maria Theresea coin, there is no such coin with that date. And more than anything it's just the look of the coins. I've owned...
I'm pretty sure the coins are fakes, so if they have any value it will be gold content only.
Not just grade, anything. It aint just you ;)
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