It's a cointain, they are soft like a contact lens not rigid.
Fair enough. But all that I have seen only show 1 picture for each grade. Now if they had a dozen or so for each grade showing the coins with the...
Coin had a killer strike so any missing detail is pure wear. And with that much missing detail, XF at best. And yes, it has been cleaned but I...
OK - try a soak overnight in pure acetone on a single coin, say that Ike. Then report back. If it works or shows signs of working I'll give you...
Well, I prefer the ANA Guide too. But even a quick look at the guide and then some graded coins will quickly show you that if people actually used...
They print a book called Grading Coins By Photographs because it will sell, not to actually teach you anything. They are smart enough to realize...
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Nothing makes it better. In fact in my opinion it is not as good as the ANA book. And there are no pictures. For that matter pictures are...
He doesn't own anything, others post guess the grade threads all the time. But rlm has a long ongoing series of them going numbering from 1...
Contrary to popular opinion, gold does tone. Even .999 gold.
Because every grading book there is bases their grades on different sets of grading standards. No two of them are the same.
Ike - In the future you need to come up with some other type of system to title your threads like this to keep them separated from rlm's...
Oh there are lots of products that will remove stuff from coins. But the question is what else will those products do to the coins ? Quite often...
Can you post a picture or two of these coins showing this green gunk ? I ask this because what you think is glue may not be glue after all and I'd...
You should really get all three of those, and these as well. And yes, it is important to have them all. http://www.coingrading.com/...
vtvick - as I said in my previous post, 2 - collectors will often submit coins that they are just absolutely sure will grade MS68 or higher,...
Not everything that ever touches a coin after minting is another coin or an object with a straight edge. All it would require would be any object...
It's not a striking condition. At least not in the way I would use those terms. Frost, is only ever caused by one thing - die preparation. For...
We shall have to agree to disagree for there are too many accounts of one branch mint sending dies already having their mint mark to another...
You have several things going on with this coin. There is post strike damage, there is mechanical doubling, and there is a die chip. That's about...
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