Ace, think about something. There are approximately 300 million people in this country. Maybe, and that's a big maybe, 3 million of them are coin...
Ehhhh, I could go either way. Coins that have been cleaned (harshly or not harshly) can have that look, but so can coins that have just gone...
Savy - I think there is something else you should consider, there is toning, and then there is toning. Toning can vary greatly, in it's early...
A final thought Matt. You mentioned that you use acetone to remove the oils after treatment. But to my eye the coins in the pics still have what I...
Definitely not always, but yeah, they often do. But nowhere near as often as they used to, and nowhere near to the degree (amount) that they used...
Yeah sure, it could be done. But I've never actually seen one that was. I'm pretty sure the reason it is not is because the time factor is much...
Good demo, but it looks like the PVC had already done its damage.
It happens often enough. PCGS has more lenient standards than NGC for every special designation there is.
In all fairness, those kind of mistakes are not made by the people identifying and grading the coins. In other words the professional graders have...
Not really. Most books only cover the subject in general, for all coins, not for any specific series or type. Counterfeit Gold Coins by Alfred...
This one always took the cake IMO - [ATTACH]
Well yeah, but only about $700 too much :rolleyes:
Maybe here on this forum, but I first heard of the idea from Conder many years ago on the old Coin World forum. And green - gonna getcha for that ;)
The point I was trying to make mic is that you, or anybody else on this forum, will probably never see another example of this particular fake...
One of the oldest test there is for telling silver from non silver. Been a long time since I've even seen it mentioned here.
Most often the results have absolutely nothing to do with "who" does the conservation and everything to do with the coin that was being conserved....
It is not unusual for a coin with raised lines on the devices or in the fields to be given a pass by the TPGs and graded. The reasoning being that...
I rarely if ever get too specific about things like that. I don't want to help make things worse by providing specific information, there are...
Yeah it's possible. But not gonna happen often. Typically my comments are made in a general sense. But there are almost always exceptions to just...
I want to point out something here that this comment kind of illustrates. It seems that some, perhaps even many, think that just because a given...
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