You may already be aware; but for those who are not aware, especially with older coins like this, when the coin does not fit snugly in the...
That's because it is the description of NGC's star designation ;)
Jim ya need to realize that coins can get scratches like that without them having been harshly cleaned. I really don't know a good way to explain...
Where did I get those numbers ? Experience. It's no secret, anybody, change that - everybody - that knows coins, knows it. How do they know it ?...
What's the plus grade mean ? In simplest terms it's easy - plus = close, but no cigar. What a lot of people don't seem to get and never have is...
Now I don't know specifically what coin cleaner you are referring to, but all the TPGs allow coin cleaners (better known as coin dip) to be used...
Gotta admit a broad band laser is pretty cool, never seen one before. But then I thought it was pretty cool when I saw a 36 inch diameter cylinder...
When I read the OP's question I though he was talking about slabs like these - [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] - where there is no numerical grade...
Kurt I think you need a new avatar buddy ! [ATTACH]
What's gonna be strange is how fast they sell them. People will fight each other to buy the dang things !
Guess that would be me because apparently nobody else can "think". You see, there's companies out there that make what you need for not very much...
What about coins that aren't moderns Joe, coins that are a 100 years old or more ? When you see their grades going up just as much as the grades...
Your end result is typical. 95% of all collectors lose money when they try to sell their collections. Now there's all kinds of reasons for that,...
Exactly ! It's something that most people would just throw away. As for those willing to bid serious money - bidiots ! I think it's pretty well...
And so could anybody else, and I think that's exactly what happened ! You've been to hundreds of coins shows. And at almost all the big ones they...
One side is backwards, one side is not. That is rather obvious. And it has also been discussed, at length, that the backwards side can be made by...
Toning can look like that, but so can some types of environmental contamination. But it would highly unlikely that PCGS would have missed...
It doesn't matter what acronym they use, they all mean the same thing. The only reason the different TPGs use different acronyms is to set...
They're not ? [IMG] They sure look backwards to me !
Like I said above, the best I can prove with outside sources is that it was prior to '93. That's within 5 and 6 years respectively of when they...
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