Well I'll tell ya what Speedy - when you are ready to add to your gold collection :p - I own the lowest graded 2002 $50 AGE there is. I figure...
That is quite true. I have been saying for years that 80 - 100 yrs from now - collectors will be looking at the "bullion" coins of today just as...
What you are saying you need is the ANA Grading Guide. It gives you what you are asking for. Problem is - none of the grading companies use it or...
Well I'll tell ya - there's a lot of folks out there who consider the ASE, AGE & APE as nothing but hunks of precious metal - bullion. To them the...
Sorry Bacchus, but what's to say besides the buyer was either absolutely crazy or he never completed the purchase and it was a gag bid ?
Howdy scooter - Welcome to the Forum !! Odds are the coin has been plated. Novelty companies do this and sell them all the time - they are...
The pic is a little small Speedy to say for sure but I'l guess PF67.
Did you read the next to last sentence in the same post where I listed the number of coins graded ?
Interesting - 1 master die means they should be the same. But it certainly appears they are not. Send them pics of the whole medal along with...
This true to a degree - many people do not like having large coins in their pocket or purse. They would prefer to use the paper money for the sake...
In a way yes. But what determines it is how the luster was broken. If it was broken by wear - then no question, the coin is not deserving of an MS...
I will readily agree with your comment that PCGS slabbed coins bring higher prices - no argument. But the question is - why do they ? The...
From a technical aspect toning does not affect the grade of a coin one way or the other. But it can affect eye appeal greatly and eye appeal is a...
Well it's severly corroded at any rate - so that will definitely affect any value it may have. But I can't find anything that looks even remotely...
Since the Morgan dollar is one of the most popular coins, and we get lots of questions about grading them - I thought this may come in handy for...
When you say a - "1652/41 spanish 8 man" - I assume you mean an 8 maravedis ?? This is one I do not recognize - even the underlying design does...
I think you might find that if you actually submitted them - maybe 1 out of a 100 would get the 69. There will be a lot of 68's and 67's though.
Fair enough. But then I wanna point something else out. Would you agree that it used to be all but impossible to find business strike coins that...
I agree with ya cdb - I think the coin is overgraded myself. But based on your comments - I gather you think PCGS is more conservative when it...
Well the last time that mohur was up for auction - the high bid was $10 million. The owner rejected the bid as being too low. The Austrian...
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