Based on the title of your question - "is the 1965 MS or SMS" - it sounds like you are asking if the coin is from a Special Mint Set - or -...
cncman - I think what people are trying to tell you is that the problem you have been experiencing is not something new. Turn-around times for...
Yeah they probably would. But walk into the same dealer's shop with common date coins in new ANACS slabs or ICG slabs and he won't take them at all.
Maybe they didn't think it was PVC, but something else.
As I have explained many times, die polishing was done by holding the face of the die against a large, spinning zinc plate. Now if you envision...
There is no way to tell an original from restrike.
No it isn't BS, some dealers DO refuse to take them.
Tell ya what, send those pics to Mike Diamond and see what he tells ya it is.
Nope, not at all. The moral of the story is that if you don't know what you are doing then you shouldn't try and clean coins. You can clean a...
That's plain old fashioned damage.
The die was damaged or scratched. But it's definitely not from the die being polished.
No it wouldn't. That's because if you do it correctly there are no oils left on your skin when you are finished. When dipping coins in acetone you...
My guess is that somebody put Deller's Darkener on that coin.
It's not rust. But it could be any of a lot of things. Post some pics and we can probably tell what it likely is.
grizz's link works fine. And then there is this link - http://www.coinshowradio.com - a radio show about coins that is put on by our own forum...
Yes the acetone should remove the tape residue. No it will not remove the toning, if it is toning and not discoloration caused by the tape. But...
OK, you tell me then. What would you expect NCS to improve on those coins ? The processes that NCS uses do not remove toning and there's...
My guess would be that the 20 cent was the only one graded and slabbed. The others look to have been harshly cleaned to me except for the Peace...
Siggi I can understand the desire to have them slabbed and thus protected, but I really don't see either of those coins benefitting from being...
Without a doubt, dipped coins. There are millions and millions of dipped coins in slabs and raw.
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