Well of course it was returned. Altered coins and counterfeits will never be graded or slabbed. That's not the same thing as a coin being...
Neither does the PCGS standard Ruben, which was my point.
Yeah, it was. It's a pretty well known incident and was big news at the time. It was also when the bottom had fallen out of the coin market and...
I dunno, might have been a planchet problem. But it also might have been something as simple as dirt & grit stuck in a spot of oil on the die....
Then what did they say the problem was ? They always do. And that is the one and only thing they will still use a body-bag for.
Here's the problem I see with the Red Book. On the page where it says - HOW TO USE THIS BOOK - it says : "Coin Values shown in this book are...
There is only one reason they will do that, that's if the coin has PVC contamination on it. Otherwise, both NGC and PCGS slab problem coins and do...
Could be wrong, but I don't think placement is near as important because the mm were punched in by hand. So placement is bound to vary some.
quartermaster, cherd - just as a point of info, the TPGs stopped body-bagging coins about 5 years ago.
I would agree that some, stress some, of the lines are die polish lines. But some of them are not die polish lines. What you always have to...
snaps - dimple is perfectly acceptable. Dimple is a word very commonly used by collectors of DMPL coins. And yes the coin has so-so reflectivity....
I'm inclined to agree that $2200 or so should be the most that would ever sell for. And I'd never pay even that much for that coin. It has more...
No, he not using older grading standards. He's using THE grading standards ! Ya see Caz, the only grading standards we have are those found in...
Rusty buddy, one of these days you gotta get it into your head to leave the CS off that acronym :) But now a question for ya. Let's suppose the...
There is no difference. And that's why so many people get confused over the issue. In common usage, ordinary conversation if you will, when...
Back in '04 (I think it was '04) I had a short piece in Numismatic News about the prices for world coins going up. Since then, they have gone up...
I will repeat it here for those who missed it below - look, and this goes for everybody, if you can add something to help the guy sell his coins...
http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1169&lotNo=8926 Here's one that sold in the past few days, same grade (no *), same TPG. It brought $126....
Looks like a plated copy to me - worthless.
Honestly, I'd say he coin is damaged. Those are pretty serious gouges there at 11 o'clock, and some serious scratches across the nose and face and...
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