Well I'll tell ya what - just for you I made 2 of them today, more correctly half of them. The half you can make with a coin, a hammer, and a...
Get back on topic guys !
Joe - PCGS admitted in public and in writing that they changed their company policy and loosened their grading standards for ASEs. And yet you'd...
May I ask why you can't believe it ? I mean there are a great many coins, produced by the mints of a great many countries, where there were no...
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I can't recall Semi-Prooflike being used, but that doesn't mean it wasn't. What I can tell you is that Heritage has archives showing PL and DMPL...
That's fine, you don't have to. But consider this, please tell me what those sanding discs were used for to begin with. Especially considering...
I cannot say that they still do, but for years PCGS had less stringent requirements for DMPL than NGC did.
On the sanding disk one image is raised and correct; the other incuse, and reversed. So you need a die for one side and a coin for the other. And...
I think this is the key to the whole discussion, though I would have worded it differently. I would have said - the TPGs are not always right,...
You can make those in your living room, or at a coin show, using a vise, an ASE, and a sanding disk.
OMG ! :stop: You do that Kurt and so help me I'll start posting poetry I wrote when I was drunk !
I don't know where the text comes from in your screen-shot that say there are 50-100 of these sanding disk things out there. Can you tell me where...
I know somewhere there is now a Professor of Literature wincing in pain :D
Well you never really explained that, until just now. And I, just now, went back and read the entire thread again to try and figure it out,...
Well, based on personal experience I can actually answer that question - they listen to the people who tell them what to do, instead of asking...
As a generalization ? No. But I do have to wonder if that is the case here. I wonder if it is not more of a change in definitions instead of...
The ANA show in Seattle was in 1990, and that's where and when you obtained this. That makes me wonder if the example slabbed by PCGS was not...
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