Looking at PCGS Coin Facts, here are the grading statistics for the 2009 High Relieft $20 gold: MS-70 8,825 MS-69 9,131 MS-68 132 Everything else...
AU sharpness, but I see hairlines on the obverse that might take it to a "details" grade.
Some collectors, mostly inexperienced ones, have long advocated changes to the grading system numbers. The most frequently seen proposal is for a...
The trouble with the High Relief $20 gold coins in AU or even the low end Mint State grades is that many of them don't have good eye appeal. This...
Grading has always varied from one slab to another for the same issue of coin in the same assigned grade. Some of that is due to the fact that...
Though out its history, PCGS has gone through up and down periods in its grading cycle. Years ago, they had stricter grading standards during down...
The demand for coins in general has gone down as the current crop of collectors gets older. The 1907 High Relief $20 gold has long been a "trophy...
The photos are too small to estimate the grade, but the color tells me it's been dipped. The brown toning above the headdress looks like residue...
There are some coins that are very hard to find, even if you have the money. I have run into that many times, and I have been mostly a type...
[ATTACH] 1991 World War II commemorative half dollar [ATTACH] 1991 World War II commemorative silver dollar [ATTACH] 1991 Korean War...
I have seen some heavily circulated Virginia half pennies. They were used, but most of the survivors seem to be Unc. and AU. The piece you have...
I think that probably is one of those pieces, although, no offense, it's a below average piece. Most them are MS-63 and 64 R&B coins. Here is one...
And you will have collectors like me who avoid the mint almost completely. I might buy one Proof set a year from the mint if I can't get from my...
Please, don't take offense, but to those who might have some dirty only copper coins, the "after" photos are not what you want to have in the end....
Here is a Nova Constellatio in VF or so. You can compare it to the piece you purchased. I never had this one graded because I figured it would...
There are a many reasons for this. If you are talking about coins from the 1940s through the 1990s, MS-67 coins are very unusual. Many coins were...
It's not my thing, but I can certainly appreciate it. I have tried to avoid collecting anything thicker than coin slab because of storage issues.
A picture taken from three feet away. Pass!
From what I have seen, a very large number of the counterfeits that make it TPG holders are in “details” problem coin slabs. Messing with surfaces...
My fascination ends with our collective ability to detect them. As for the counterfeits themselves, my opinion of them and the people who make and...
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