Wonderful Lady, bad likeness:[ATTACH]
Didn't German paper money have the penalty for counterfeiting printed right on it?
Meiji 31 or 1898, sorry not one of the really expensive ones.
I haven't jumped in years.
Wow, I never knew the dates on Roman coins were in Roman numerals!
If the grading company cannot detect that a coin is cleaned, why would they have any basis to say it was cleaned?
PMD, place a blunt nail on the top of the 3 and smack it with a hammer.
Oopsie
My wife checks the price of our house daily and I have to listen to an endless stream of "Why do they have the house priced at...while the other...
Not a bad price and it looks like there can be some luster on some of them. If I were doing this, I would take one as a test case and buy some...
Kind of looks like part of the rim has been shaved and folded over.
That is the point, remove the uncertainty due to counterfeits and do the grading yourself and make the slabbing cheap.
Experienced game player.
So how do I enter?
Interesting thought - how about a company that will slab coins and guarantee them to be genuine but not grade them. Has a possibility to be...
1794 Large Cent My baby. I bought this coin over 40 years ago. I was in graduate school and although I couldn't afford it, I was being sent...
To go on a little more about cyanide, I am reminded of Tom Lehrer's Irish Ballad - "Her mother she could never stand, Sing rickety-tickety-tan,...
This makes me irritated that there is no easy way to minimize this damage. I guess tooling that has been discussed on another thread would work,...
OMG
If a "cleaned" coin is allowed to age, mellow and oxidize. could it ever pass for an un-cleaned coin?
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