Surpisingly enough shipping cartons can add value to things. But they need to be kept in nearly pristine condition. And it's usually many, many...
Nothing is cut off, you're just seeing the plastic insert that holds the coin overlapping the edges. If you look at this one for example, you...
Are you talking about these - [IMG] [IMG] - or the boxes they ship them in ?
The complete design fits on the coin just fine. It doesn't have anything to do with the design. The exact same thing happens with coins of any...
Yes, that does happen. But don't fool yourself onto thinking that's the only way it happens.
I think it's more a case of unreasonable expectations by people who are just not familiar with them. I dealt with both companies for many years...
OK - if 24 karat and/or .999 isn't what you call pure, you tell me how you define pure gold then. As I said earlier in this thread, the coin...
Well I suppose first of all we have to define pure gold. In simple terms, 24 karat is pure gold. .999 is pure gold. The point that is being...
OK, let me start by asking what I consider to be the most obvious question. And that is precisely why most people never even think of it - because...
The ANA standards specifically state that no copper coin can be graded above 66 unless the coin is original mint red.
No, I'm telling you that a coin can have a plainly visible fingerprint on it and PCGS will still grade it a 66. So rather obviously such a coin...
Not true. You just repeat the same steps. Think of it this way, if they could pick and choose and make gold of any fineness they wanted, down...
You can submit the coin under the guarantee but I doubt it will do any good. There are more than a few coins with fingerprints in PCGS holders....
I've never been able to figure out why the people of todays world assume that the people of the old world did not have to technology to refine...
I'm not sure what that link is talking about. But the Guernsey 8 doubles was a copper coin, not a silver coin.
It seems you folks are making an assumption that coins of a given grade are equal, they aren't. And it has nothing to do with whether the coin has...
The I suggest Michael that what you have seen was a set mailed by a private individual to another individual where the inner envelope was used. I...
I'd say 55 on this one.
It means the same thing it means in normal conversation, that a piece of cloth was used to wipe off the surface. When talking about coins that can...
Gotta go with no grade, looks to me to have been wiped.
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