Fluorescent is the worst type of light to use - for obvious reasons. The recommended type of light to use to examine coins is and always has been...
Paul - just how do you think they determine what is or what is not market acceptable if they do not push the limits ? Just how do you think...
Looks like ordinary toning to me, and it does not affect value.
And of course the dealer that does that does the very same thing even when the coins are slabbed.
It's a bit of an experience thing, but subdued luster (toned) has an entirely different look than removed (dipped) luster. Subdued luster on a...
Just leave them as is. One is as good as the other.
Absolutely yes ! Luster is often subdued by toning. Also, not all coins of higher grades - 65 to 67 say - have full luster. The vast majority of...
Quite true. However, precisely because of this does it not make sense to you, at least some of you hopefully, that examples that actually have...
When you speak of projected low mintages you have to refer the law that authorized the coin. It is the law that sets the maximum mintage. But...
Yes. And then they are also polished with the same method when they get bad clash marks, or when they get excessive flow lines. That is the...
Go and read what is said in that thread. A die gouge and die file marks are completely different things from die polish lines. As I have...
Those are flow lines, completely normal. Honestly - 64 is more like it.
But they did not put PL on the holder so they did not think the coin was Proof Like. The PL description is merely the seller's opinion.
Small problem - you cannot have die polish lines on the devices. Die polish lines can only be in the fields. The lines on that coin's devices...
Sorry, but I don't see any way it could be an insult to ask if you could the hits or not, and then comment that if you could see them, then by...
You do not get notched serifs unless it is a doubled die and that coin definitely has them.
You can't see those 2 hits across the lines on the left side ? If you acknowledge that those hits are there then the coin cannot be FBL by...
It has long been my contention that within the past few years (about 4 now) that the TPGs greatly lossened their grading standards.
They're not just on the reverse, nor are they on the slab. The marks correspond exactly obv/rev and usually only happen one way - from the coin...
MS - the SP coins started out getting high numbers right from the get go. I guess I shouldn't be surprised really. It follows right along with...
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