I strongly disagree. Never have I ever seen anything so vague as the written TPG grading standards. It is the TPG standards that are inadequate !...
For U.S. it'd be the ANA Grading Guide. For world coins Delmonte's De Beneluxe D'Or.
So are you saying that when it comes to Proofs you buy the plastic instead of the coin ?
It is known as a partial lamination. A thin layer of the clad material has flaked away.
On this I agree with you. Never in my entire life have I ever submitted a coin to any TPG because I never needed to do so. I was always perfectly...
Why what ? Why is it ludicrous ? Simple. The premise of the thread is that PCGS provides higher grades to the coins submitted by large dealers...
If you were confident in your own grading abilities, and you could see the coin in hand, and you believed it was a 66 - it would be foolish not to...
I doubt you can find someone who is more critical of the TPGs than I am. But for the record, I do not believe, nor will I ever believe, that the...
And maybe it didn't ;)
But back when that coin was graded - they did not over-grade ;) That said, due to the common perception in the marketplace even coins in the...
I agree 100% - that coin is as ugly as sin ! Nor do I think it is deserving of a 66. I wouldn't accept it if someone wanted to give to me for free !
It was a joke Duke.
I gotta go with fake too. My guess would be it was originally copper with a silver wash or plating. And it has apparently been in the ground, so...
It's quite simple really - who has the money ? You see, that's the thing - those with the money control the market. And it is the collectors who...
A common misconception. It is collectors who control the coin market - but most of them don't even realize it.
Enough ! One more word from either of you and you can both go on a vacation !
With a respected dealer there is no risk at all. You ship the coins Registered Mail and that insures them up to $25,000.00. And the dealer is not...
To a large degree it's because the nickels and quarters for those 2 years are widely known for being of very poor quality so people have been...
That's because there but few coin dealers in New York City. Quite honestly, Stacks is your best bet close to you. Other than that there are many...
It depends on what you want to happen. If you want the coins put into PCGS holders at any grade then the coins will be cracked out of the holders...
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