The NGC and PCGS price guides are completely worthless and should never be used when trying to establish the value of any coin. As for realized...
10 seconds in Jewel Luster would ruin any unc coin and completely remove any luster the coin had. Soap ? Soap is a no-no on any coin.
What book you get has a lot to do with the age of the coins. Krause for example only goes back to 1600 I think it is. Whereas Friedberg goes back...
I didn't see anything because I never went to look. My point is this - you are quoting the pops for MS70 coins. But the pops for MS70 coins has...
There is no doubt that you can sometimes find Gems in any slab. But the reality is that you are not going to do it very often.
Go check the pops on on the 2008 PF70 and see what ya get ? I expect you'll find a higher precentage for the Proofs than you did for the Uncs.
If there were, I never heard of them.
The only graders you will ever see at a show are NGC, PCGS, ANACS & ICG. Now that said you can still sometimes find coins graded by the other...
Yup, you're cursed ! If that coin's MS - I'm the King of Spain.
Not unless you have it examined, in person, by an expert.
What it means is that when they get the coins HSN will submit as many of them as it takes for them to get at least 4579 graded as 70s and then...
Simple and accurate answer - no, we will never know.
Dunno about the 2010 coins but the mint has said there will be no more Satin finish Mint Sets - that much is true.
Yes and no. First of all these coins were never placed in rolls when they were new, not by the mint anyway. They were all sold individually or in...
If what you are asking is - what is the lieklihood of getting a PF70 DCAM on a Washington commem ? My guess would be it's about 1 out of 10,000....
What you have there has design similarities to what is known as the Hapsburg design used on the coins of Phillip V in 1701 at the Mexico City...
What has already been said is possible. But it's also possible that it is a cast fake. And given the look of the coin that would be the direction...
Folks there's one very simple rule that covers all bases, and it doesn't matter whether you buy the coin on ebay, from a private collector, in a...
They try to create a phony for the same reason anyone tries to fake anything - money ! There is always someone out there gullible enough to buy...
For generations now it has been the practice that problem coins are considered ungradeable. There's a reason for that - and your questions are...
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