Fair warning though folks - dipping coins is NOT something you wanna mess with if you have no experience at doing it ! It is extremely easy to...
Everybody has different ideas about that. Some use acetone, some use concoctions they mix up themselves. But my preference was always distilled...
I just gave you 2 days to edit the post :)
Being familiar with how they grade is a completely different thing than knowing what the standards are that they use and follow ! Anyone who...
The very first thing that everyone needs to learn - is what coins that have not been harshly cleaned are supposed to look like ! And this includes...
It won't hurt ya, tens of millions of coins have been dipped with bare hands. But I can see by your later post that you kinda figured that out....
Learning how to correctly identify harshly cleaned coins is one of the hardest things there is to do in numismatics. It requires a great deal of...
It's a good place to start, but not for understanding how PCGS grades coins ! I say that because PCGS has never, ever, used or followed ANA...
Hmmmm - not sure if that qualifies as a single helix, a double helix, or a semi-solid helix :D What I do know is I can't even imagine trying to...
My hat's off to ya John ! :) I think your work, effort, and dedication is unrivaled ;)
Kudos for that one Kurt ! I like it, and agree that is one of the valid criteria for the definition. Me, I used to keep handwritten notebooks...
Now just imagine what that luster might have, and probably would have, looked like had the coin not slipped out of the tweezers. Given what you do...
If you mean one of these - [IMG] No, if you leave it as is it will not be OK. As I said in my initial post, there can be no cardboard or...
I think you're misunderstanding a bit. All told I think there are 9 different grading criteria. I'd have to write them all out to make sure but...
Are you getting the point I've been trying to make ? It's not just the word numismatist - it's the majority of all words. For example, ask a 100...
Remove the sets from the cardboard packaging and then store the sets in a sealed container and use rechargeable silica gel packs. When you store...
Because most the luster has either been destroyed by or is being hidden beneath the toning - especially in the fields. The coin just doesn't have...
How much of a premium is eye appeal worth? A perfect example of the answer to the question -...
Ya see, that right there is THE problem ! There are too many people who believe that just because a TPG and/or CAC say so - it must be so. THAT is...
There have been 85 posts in this thread so far, many different opinions and answers to the question offered up. But yet we are not even close to...
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