More likely from brushing (like with a toothbrush) the coin with some kind of caustic chemical. Much of the surface of the coin has been eaten...
Simplest answer - no, not anymore.
You're right Richie. Typing before thinking :oops: But there are still a lot that are over-graded too.
Paul I have provided numerous examples of evidence so many times that I have lost count. Ahhhh -there's explanations for why they have loosened...
Yeah sometimes hoards affect the market, but sometime they have no effect at all. There are many different variables that determine which way it...
If you pay them extra to do so, and they agree with your opinion, yeah I think they will.
Harsh cleaning, improper cleaning, even altered surfaces sometimes - they all fall under the same umbrella. Like I said, there are thousand...
There are many things that come into play here. Yeah, to a degree it does depend on the coin. With certain coins the TPGs are much more lenient...
Well, there's a couple other things that people often forget, or simply weren't ever aware of it to begin with. That being that when the...
May be of passing interest to some; the last time the topic of buying catalogs came up I was asked the question - how does one go about getting...
OK, but the discussion and my answer was specifically focused on Conder's book -
Sorry Paul, but date of the PCGS book being published has nothing to do with why I say that the TPGs loosened their grading standards in 2004, nor...
Sorry Mike, but they don't make any such claim.
There's 2 different issues being mentioned in the last several posts, but they are both separate issues that have nothing to do with each other....
Not in Conder's book there isn't. There is one and only one PCGS 5.
And how is that any different than you, or somebody else, saying they are correct and I am incorrect ? What makes them correct and anybody who...
Were you around when he published the first book ? I was. I waited 6 years after he first started talking about it being published. I've been...
Well let's see Brandon. First of all it might be helpful if your comments were even remotely accurate. I grade coins based on standards published...
He's working on the second edition of his book, has been for years. Maybe after a few more he'll publish it.
Then if it doesn't bother you, why do you go on and on about it all the time ? Well, I don't make posts based on what I think somebody else...
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