The idea would work fine - until you tried to spend one. :whistle:
Oh I agree with you, as does much of the numismatic community. I wrote my first article on the subject, promoting the idea of a universal grading...
Howdy Nick :hail: I wondered where you've been. Hopefully the health issues become a thing of the past :high5:
Yes it is a very good mag - usually about 70 - 72 pages. I actually like Coin World a little better - 120 pages - but I subscribe to them both.
No, it sounds more like the commemorative program of the 1930's and the commemorative program of the 1990's. Both of which effectively killed the...
Easy answer - the Christmas crush ;)
Exactly correct. Too many people mistakenly think that the design on a coin only lies on the surface - it doesn't, it exist pretty much all the...
Soldering mark or not, a coin that is mounted as jewelry in a bezel is still mounted and it does leave tell tale traces which are considered to be...
It's nothing new, they have been doing the same thing since the TPGs began. Only difference is, in years past they only did it with 1 company,...
I suspect very little. I managed to find an auction record where a lot of about 6 tokens, one of them being the one in question, sold for about 65...
Can you post pics of these coins you have had recently graded by PCI ? Without seeing examples of what you mean I could not offer an opinion on...
No, there is no universal grading standard follwed by all of the TPGs. Each TPG has its own set of grading standards that they use. Not really...
It doesn't really mean anything. Adian's comment about the popularity of the coin was accurate, the coin was not well liked because of the design....
The reason the mintages for the platinum coins is always so low is because there is very little collector interest in them - they just aren't...
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You can read about it here - Railroad Rim
They are referring to the Panama Pacific Exposistion of 1915 and the commemorative coins issue for the event.
Aidan - didn't you read Clinker's post :confused:
A safe bet, I posted a pic of it last week ;)
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