Doubt it all you want. But talk to professional authenticators, professional graders and other recognized experts - and you'll find out that your...
Coins are best stored in the dark. I don't know that anyone would call it damage, but light does contribute to the coins toning.
And I'm pretty sure you will get similar responses from all of the approved buyers.
Yes.
You're not going to see colorfully toned coins in circulation, now or 40 years ago. Coins in circulation only tone to a grey color. Colorfully...
I agree. That pinkish cast is a dead give-away.
I suspect more than you think.
They probably have a much higher ratio actually because I'd wager that they are better at picking out 70's than you are. They don't just buy a...
Last I heard, which was about 2 years ago, there were 14 authorized purcahsers. This was confirmed by the US Mint (in a Coin World article if I...
Whatever the number of existing genuine coins is, I'd bet there more counterfeits/fakes/altered ones out there than there are genuine ones.
I can only report what is written in the books which were written by people who know far more about it than any of us.
Not inappropriate at all. By all means - share the info.
You would think so - except for these 2 things. - the smaller the coin, then the more likely it is that any adjustment marks on the planchet...
Well done :thumb:
No Jerome it doesn't mean that at all. That is merely what you chose to interpret it as meaning.
Never cease to be amazed by that seeing that I paid $200 for the first and just over $300 for the second, in a higher grade, just 5 years ago.
I mean that the Russian government intentionally minted copies of the Netherlnads ducats and they did it for years. They made their own dies, they...
You can't find it under Mexico because it wasn't minted in Mexico. It was minted in Peru.
I'm gonna guess they said 64. You said an impulse buy - but why ?
Gentlemen - let me remind you what our rules are here. Such things are not to be discussed openly in the forum. And I believe all of you know...
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