A few times a year, I send in bulk orders of 100-200 Morgan and Peace dollars. While at least half of my submissions come back without mistakes,...
Actually, I mean the risk that the seller takes by cracking a coin out of a holder, thus making it only a raw coin that he might not be able to...
The scenario has to do with safeguarding against bypassing an existing certification. For slabbed coins, once you crack it out, the certification...
OK, I'll give an example. I buy an unslabbed coin with a certified, immutable photo. I want to rip of an eBay buyer, so I take a new photo,...
You're missing my point. When an unscrupulous seller cracks out a coin to try and misrepresent it, they are risking the loss in value that comes...
The thing is, the ethics of such an organization are far more easily nullified by someone trying to misrepresent a raw coin than a slabbed coin....
Because we all know that this hobby contains nothing but people with pristine ethics, right? ;)
The 1964 cent you reference is not worth having graded. It will not grade high enough to pay for even the return postage, regardless of the...
Wayte Raymond pages were famous for and sought after for their ability to tone coins nicely. Over time, however, they apparently become less up...
I backed off of saying that, because on Morgan dollars, it appears that die fatigue doubling shows up on Liberty's ear. For the most part,...
Die fatigue doubling. As dies wear out, they sometimes develop what looks like doubling around certain design elements.
Mine.
I call it glue.
That doesn't matter. Hold him to a refund. If you don't, you're teaching him the value of being a con artist at age 10. Bring it up with the...
My ears are burning. That was a lot of holders ago. Today, I would label it S2, since I was waiting for the big IHC books to come out before...
If the die cracks on yours are more advanced than those illustrated, then the one used for the illustration was a slightly earlier die stage.
It looks like a match to the cracks on JOH-23 to me. You may have a slightly different die stage than the one that was illustrated. The JOH...
1902 is available with better luster than appears to be show in the photo. I also can't tell to what extent there are little marks all over the...
Whoa! Your girlfriend went to a coin club party with you? She's a keeper!
I'm fairly sure that 1989 was the first year that the mint mark was part of the hub for cents. No more separate mint mark punch. While it didn't...
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