As already said - color plays no part in the grade. With 2 exceptions - 1 - the 70 grade on copper. For a copper coin to achieve the 70 grade...
Guilty Your Honor - on both counts :vanish:
First thing you want to do is forget, completely forget, about using the Red/Blue Books for pricing. If you want to check values on coins- use the...
Over the course of my life my home has been broken into 3 times. All 3 times the police could not catch the guys or figure it out. So I did. In...
Doubt it all you want. But talk to professional authenticators, professional graders and other recognized experts - and you'll find out that your...
Coins are best stored in the dark. I don't know that anyone would call it damage, but light does contribute to the coins toning.
And I'm pretty sure you will get similar responses from all of the approved buyers.
Yes.
You're not going to see colorfully toned coins in circulation, now or 40 years ago. Coins in circulation only tone to a grey color. Colorfully...
I agree. That pinkish cast is a dead give-away.
I suspect more than you think.
They probably have a much higher ratio actually because I'd wager that they are better at picking out 70's than you are. They don't just buy a...
Last I heard, which was about 2 years ago, there were 14 authorized purcahsers. This was confirmed by the US Mint (in a Coin World article if I...
Whatever the number of existing genuine coins is, I'd bet there more counterfeits/fakes/altered ones out there than there are genuine ones.
I can only report what is written in the books which were written by people who know far more about it than any of us.
Not inappropriate at all. By all means - share the info.
You would think so - except for these 2 things. - the smaller the coin, then the more likely it is that any adjustment marks on the planchet...
Well done :thumb:
No Jerome it doesn't mean that at all. That is merely what you chose to interpret it as meaning.
Never cease to be amazed by that seeing that I paid $200 for the first and just over $300 for the second, in a higher grade, just 5 years ago.
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