You may think there are no ill effects, but Tarn-X removes a thin layer of metal from the coin. That's why it removes fingerprints.
Enough ! One more word, one word, by anybody in this thread that is not about the topic of the thread, and I am really gonna get PO'd !...
Probably past time, too bad I don't own any of them any more. You forget ? I no longer collect coins.
You only say that because you won it ! I lost count of the number of gold coins I gave in contest prizes. He is on the list - the Clnker Award...
Nahhhh - that's just the ones in the album or folder and in a Zip-Lock bag. Carl knows how to spend them too. I hear he ran out of Zip-Locks :secret:
Geeeez - I thought I was the only one who remembered that :high5:
My list is growing so long I'm running out of paper ! :D As for ancients - I know nothing about ancients, never even held one let alone owned...
Yes, up until 1965 you could go to the bank and pick up rolls of silver dollars any time you wanted.
This could wax political pretty easily - mind your P's and Q's.
Thanks Folks ! :high5:
Why ? Do you think that all PCGS MS65 coins are equal or something ? They aren't. Even PCGS freely admits they are not all equal. You said you...
Yeah I knew what you menat Chris. But many would read it to mean identical grades, not necessarily identical condition.
Yup. I gotta admit, I really hate it when I'm right and the rest of the world is wrong :whistle:
No worries, neither can I. Nope, I was the first, and for a long time, only, Moderator for Coin Talk. It was much later when we had 7...
Did you read this ? http://www.cointalk.com/t107395-2/#post887506 Or read this ? http://www.cointalk.com/t107642/#post887826
And what do you do when you put 2 PCGS MS65 coins side by side and you see the difference ?
First thing you do is forget about the slabs. Then you consider which coin is the nicer of the two. Who graded it doesn't have anything to do with...
Well let's see, from the dictionary - penny – noun 1.a bronze coin, the 100th part of the dollars of various nations, as Australia, Canada,...
Fine, but this - - this is not a fact. This is an opinion.
Horse puckey. The truth of the matter is that on some series NGC has tougher standards and on other series PCGS has tougher standards. Neither of...
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