That is quite true, if it is done wrong. But - if it is done correctly, it often increases the value. People always seem to use the word...
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You have fallen into the "trap" that all too many fall into. When the coin won't stay in the hole, find something that will make it stay there....
That's my point, there most definitely are things that don't add up. The value is immaterial. I think I know what has happened here, but at...
Gotta admit, I was wondering too because that first pic sure looks like 5. But I'm convinced :thumb:
Would you guys like to stop now ? Or shall we keep going ? I can hand out infractions all day long.
Look again, it's under the 1.
No, it isn't. I don't know of one single person who is knowledgeable about coins that blindly accepts the grade assigned by any TPG. That is...
Yes, the value is easily checked. But don't forget, Grey Sheet is based on sight seen coins. And if whoever is looking at that coin and they do...
They sell them on ebay from time to time and occasionally even in some of the larger coin auctions. Most examples have broken hinges though....
Technically it is not a law. It is a ruling, for lack of a better word, by the US Treasury.
Somehow it seems that most are missing the point. These two sentences sum it up - Why is it right for you to buy the coin and not the slab and...
As are mine ;)
There are a couple of things that bother me about the coin. One is the closing loops on the 0s and the 8. They are extremely exaggerated from...
Even I think PCGS is respectable. But I am not one of those who will blindly accept their opinion on any coin regardless of what I think of it. It...
I dunno Duke, seems to me a bunny would be a huge improvement over a jar of Mayonnaise :D
Stop it ? No. But you can certainly slow it down. Point is, once it's reached that point is it worth the risk ? You really don't know how much...
But only to a plastic buyer ;)
Give the man a cigar ;) And there are those coins where if the toning is allowed to continue it will damage the coin to the point that...
No that was an entirely different thing. What you are thinking of was known as a box coin. Box coins were hollwed out on the inside and had tiny...
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