Mike - I just checked your personal settings. You have chosen to NOT receive email from Admins; you have chosen to NOT receive email from other...
You are the one who makes the choice to receive it or not - not Peter.
Talk to a tax lawyer AND an accountant. I cannot stress this enough.
Looks to have been harshly cleaned IMO - BB material.
Got it here ;)
It's been 2 days - only 2 posts and 7 votes so far. So what's up with this one ???? Normally Lehigh's polls like this are buried in posts in 2...
Depends on how you define rare. There are plenty of world coins out there, commems usually, that have mintages under 150 total coins. Some even go...
Want to get a better understanding of the part that strike does play in grading ? Read Randy Campbell's columns in Coin World.
Use an incandescent light and a 5x glass - you'll be able see more that way. Fluorescent lights tend to actually hide things on a coin.
That - "that it may have been lightly bathed in a soap and not thoroughly rinsed off." - look is also what a coin coated with oil can look like...
Well, that would probably do it alright. But when I made that comment it wasn't anything like that that I had in mind. I was talking about natural...
Personally I think the coin would be body-bagged. It has numerous slide scratches across Liberty's face & hair. While 1 or 2 might be let slide, I...
No, no coin can be wiped without leaving hairlines. And I don't care how soft the cloth is. And anyone who thinks they can do so is mistaken. Even...
Tough to do with those pics, bit out of focus, but I'd say AU58.
Yes it is. If I am the seller I either have a loss or a gain - one or the other is always accounted for.
Yes silver corrodes, even pure silver. Ordinary salt water - the ocean - will destory a silver coin. So will many other substances.
That depends, the site contains all of the information contained in the Krause catalogs. The 5 volume set of books would cost you $310. The...
I was talking about US coins and no, modern coins (defined as those struck post '64), are not included. And yes, the term cleaned does include...
Boy Howdy - now there's a name from the past !! Of course I remember you. Ashamed to say that I can't recall your real name though. If memory...
As a matter of fact I am ;)
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