It is, and has been been for, well, pretty much centuries.
It's not.
Oh it is ! It took over 60 years to write it, and there's only 1 copy ;)
Help it ? Yes. Remove it ? Probably not. In other words, it would remove some but not all of it. MS70 is a mild coin dip. It will remove the...
Uhhhh John, it could be you have things just a bit backwards there. Ya ever think that maybe I'm just copying and pasting what I write here out of...
History shows us that mint products with the highest value above issue price are those that the fewest wanted at the time of issue. So the...
LOL ! There are time I wish I'd thought of it :D
Howdy Kelly - Simple answer, if they're copper coins - yes. Please read this thread, the whole thing, but in particular the parts I posted. It...
They are hand picked by me most of the time, and sometimes Peter picks one. But none are ever approved unless we both approve. Nope, neither one...
This is simply not true ! Literally thousands of people, probably tens of thousands of them, know how to properly clean coins. There are...
It has always been quite common for countries to copy the designs of coins from other countries. And they'd copy more than just designs, they copy...
Store it properly and they won't change.
The ad sections are the ONLY place you're allowed to do it.
First off the TPGs started slabbing problem coins in 2007 - they have ever since. And - the time period when pretty much everyone found...
What he said !
If I were you I'd just get it graded and forget the cleaning - conservation if you prefer but cleaning is what it is. Here's why. With spots like...
There's two possibilities. The spotting you're seeing, and that's what it is - spotting, was caused by something that got on the coin before it...
No argument on that at all ! I just thought it worth mentioning what I did because not everybody thinks of it. And it needs to be considered.
If you wish to inhibit toning as much as you can use the Intercept Shield products - they actually and will not harm coins or deposit anything on...
As others have already said - the one and only reason to get those coins slabbed is to authenticate them. But here's the thing - a great many...
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