Here's the thing with the date. Sometimes the numerals were punched in one at a time, and sometimes they were punched in with a block punch. This...
It sounds like what you are misunderstanding is that there is more to grading a coin than contact marks. When trying to grade higher grade (65...
Dropped mine to 65, it has more marks than I thought based on the other pics. I think the coin has more luster than the pics are showing. Reckon...
There's a large scratch across the shoulder if that's what you're talking about. The glitter like effect is usually called the orange peel effect...
Resubmissions to NGC and PCGS often result in down-grades too; or they remain the same; or they upgrade. All three things are also true about...
Well, not when you consider that I was specializing in Low Countries gold, particularly ducats.
Kinda, I believe the correct way to put it would be say it is the definitive book on the gold coinage of the Low Countries from the time of...
Well I asked the question largely because of your previous comment - You said flat out that you would buy the PF 66 coin if it were in an NGC...
I strongly disagree. Never have I ever seen anything so vague as the written TPG grading standards. It is the TPG standards that are inadequate !...
For U.S. it'd be the ANA Grading Guide. For world coins Delmonte's De Beneluxe D'Or.
So are you saying that when it comes to Proofs you buy the plastic instead of the coin ?
It is known as a partial lamination. A thin layer of the clad material has flaked away.
On this I agree with you. Never in my entire life have I ever submitted a coin to any TPG because I never needed to do so. I was always perfectly...
Why what ? Why is it ludicrous ? Simple. The premise of the thread is that PCGS provides higher grades to the coins submitted by large dealers...
If you were confident in your own grading abilities, and you could see the coin in hand, and you believed it was a 66 - it would be foolish not to...
I doubt you can find someone who is more critical of the TPGs than I am. But for the record, I do not believe, nor will I ever believe, that the...
And maybe it didn't ;)
But back when that coin was graded - they did not over-grade ;) That said, due to the common perception in the marketplace even coins in the...
I agree 100% - that coin is as ugly as sin ! Nor do I think it is deserving of a 66. I wouldn't accept it if someone wanted to give to me for free !
It was a joke Duke.
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