I don't see anything that makes me suspicious. Uneven denticles are normal, it is more uncommon to see them be even all the way around.
What's more important to you - protecting the coins ? Or having them look pretty in a cardboard case ? When you can answer that question -...
Amen to that !
Guess it depends on what's more important to you, maintaining originality or presentation. Myself, I never cared about presentation. If I wanted...
Yeah I read it. It mostly says exactly what I thought it would say. He's been writing pieces along those lines for the past year or so now. Why I...
Personally, I'd leave it in the original holder.
That and because even their fancy new technology cannot tell if the coin has been dipped or not. To be able to detect dipping their would have...
With most of those, at least every one I have ever seen, you get pure generic coins that are mostly over-graded or low for the grade, over-priced,...
Yeah, the first issue of the month, every month. That one is their special issue that has all the other stuff in it. The other 3 issues a month...
The reason it's amazing to you is because you don't realize what happens to coins. You, like many other collectors, seem to think that people buy...
Of course it's possible, no one has ever denied that. But - which one is more probable ? That is really the question. When the odds are 8, or...
But only very, very few of them. And then to an even smaller group of people who seem willing to pay that premium mainly because they don't...
Doesn't look like it to me, looks like the sharp edge that a strike through has.
Well, nobody can say with certainty that a coin is genuine just by looking at it. So even if you took them to a dealer he would have to at least...
A contact mark that large would show displaced metal - a strike through doesn't.
Too high. They are both considered to be generic coins and will trade for about spot price.
No, but tap water will.
That all by itself indicates to me that the coin is fake.
I agree that it looks like the coin has been harshly cleaned and that alone would keep it out of a regular slab. As for the rim - that looks more...
Yeah sure it would get graded. As I said, they're pretty common. Hard to find a Morgan without a few marks like that. Most folks just refer to...
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