Anything shipped to a congressmen is going to be opened and inspected looking for anthrax etc. Additionally, I'm certain they xray everything,...
Doesn't look like tone or streaking to me. I would grade it "original uncleaned covered with black crud AU50" --Incidentally, what did NGC grade...
That would seem to be my best explanation as well, though its remarkable how many of them end up graded by NGC and PCGS even though evidently cleaned.
First coin is a Russian kopeck struck under the reign of Tsar Paul I. He was pretty much a whack job that ended-up murdered by his own advisors....
There are a lot of idiots working for the post office who don't care about the rules much less follow them. I mailed a coin registered mail to a...
Great film. Any idea when it was made? Not certain, but I thought the date on the cent die (inverted to the viewer) was 1920, as was the date on...
Richard Ponterio is a very knowledgable numistmatist for whom I have great respect. And many of the coins in my collection came from auctions he...
Actually, that has been tried before. Richard Ponterio used to routinely downgrade slabbed coins in his catalog, "no better than XF, NGC AU58"......
I suspect most of the gun nuts who think carrying a weapon would have prevented the attack are delusional. The guy was jumped by three armed...
It's worth paying a premium over melt for a collectible coin if only to see the reaction of the neophytes as they look at you in astonished disbelief.
A radio controlled remote detenator inside the safe, designed to blow-up Steve McGarrets black Mercury.
Let's see, been a little over 2 years since the last scandal, --that's a pretty good run for the ANA(!) I just hope this one has a little more...
Thank you, a very helpful post.
Actually a commemorative struck to mark the 25th anniversary of independence from the Ottoman Empire. Prova is the same as a trial strike in this...
Just looked for the coin pics in that thread and found them. What's with Eliasberg coins always grading AU58? (mine too) --But seriously, they did...
Here's the1927-Star/Star 100 Franga, same grade as the one you recently acquired. I sent this one in to NGC myself back in 1998 or 1999....
Inclined to agree with you on grading from large coin dealers in general, though I must say, the few coins I have bought from their display ads...
I think the whole digital finger print thing from PCGS is of spurious value in the market place. So what if the coin can never be upgraded by...
Nope, I'm not Albanian. I bought a used 1994 twin century Krause catalog in 1995 and only made it to the Albanian section before I was so...
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