Lehigh I understand your reasoning for your collection, you and I have discussed this before. And as I have said in this thread, there is no...
As I have said for forever - collect because you like them, not because you expect to make a profit. There is no better reason to collect coins.
The coin was minted for 6 years. They are extremely common. Yes, some dates/mints are less common than others, but they are not really popular. In...
Your collection presents a somewhat unique problem. That problem is that just because you think your coins are worth multiples of the list price -...
Only reason that really matters - because it makes them easier to sell for a fair price. Not an opinion, just a fact.
With silver at $9.86, $3 is about all it is worth. You need to rememeber that these coins are as common as dirt. And unless they grade high or...
Has nothing to do with geography. Mike calles me Scrooge because he thinks I am tough on coins regarding grade. And to that I say - Bah -...
I do remember, I also remember how surprised you were. And I remember how surprised I was that you were surprised. I really didn't expect it from...
What I see obv - are a great many tiny little hits all over the coin. Looking at the edges of the leaves, the cross and the legends the frost is...
Quite honestly, there are no standards for these things in grades that low. But I'd say VG10 - F12.
Carl as we have tried to explain many times it your screen resolution size that you need to change. If you keep it at anything less than 1024 x768...
Tolerance levels allow the discrepancy in either direction. For a 28gm coin tolerance should be pretty close to 0.28gm. So if yours are over/under...
:eek: :eek: Elizabeth - this may be the Big One ! I'm comin to ya darlin ! :D
Look at it close Mike, that coin has seen some very rough handling for a Proof. And it doesn't really take much to drop the grade of a Proof. I...
He means the coin has a bit of haze on it. I'll say 66 Cam.
But david, your TPG opinion only has meaning to one person - you. The TPG opinion of the grading company has meaning to thousands & thousands...
That's not haze, those are groups of spots.
Another mistake in Krause then :o
Spec is 33.931, this one is 33.64 tonight.
Yes, because the cameo coin has all that clutter in the fields that is common to some Proof coins. This is where a lot of people get confused...
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