Yup, it is.
Yeah and if you keep looking you'll find 3 or 4 more different definitions for the same word. Again it's the age old problem with terminology in...
You are always running experiments Jim, run the one I've told skeptics to run. Buy a .999 gold coin. Leave it out exposed to the air for a year....
I was thinking PMD too at first, but I'd agree - planchet defect. But technically, the coin would still be considered damaged because of the pitting.
Hmmmm - now I wonder how that definition works with gold coins that have haymarks ?
Not unless it prints out that page with all those words in different size fonts. In my browser they are all the same size. Rules for PL and DMPL...
Even when there is no alloy, it still tones ;)
You're assuming it is a fingerprint, I'm not so sure it is.
Very rarely.
Absolutely not ! I'd bet the value of a genuine example that is a fake.
The dealers you find listed here are to be trusted - http://www.cointalk.com/t14152/
Yeah, and even more times people steal pictures of other coins and use them in their ads. Guess we'll find out which happened.
Even if it is a Matte Proof, and I'm not so sure it is, I sure wouldn't buy it. The coin looks to have been harshly cleaned. Pass !
Finding dealers is not the problem - there are scads of them. What you have to find are dealers that you can trust. If you use the link that Mark...
That right there is the problem - looked like. That is the most common reason there is or ever was for people messing with their coins. They...
Or - they stole a picture from the Heritage archives and used it in their ebay ad. You did ask this seller if you would get the exact coin in the...
First of all yes, it is absolutely legal to own coin dies and it is of course legal to sell them. The only time this would even possibly be a...
Anyone have a trick to getting coins cheap off eBay? You bet, know enough about coins to know a bargain when you see one ;)
You got some catching up to do ;) I sold my entire collection and stopped collecting coins over 5 years ago.
sylvester ! Man I thought you fell off the planet :D It's good to see ya ! Hopefully you stop by more often ;) Maybe so Gary, but if people...
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