The only choice I am talking about is what a person likes or dislikes. And in that, there is no right or wrong.
But in many cases that green patina has been removed, and in every single one the underlying damage is there. That cannot be disputed. You may...
That green patina you are talking about is called many things, green patina, bronze disease, and verdigris. But plain and simple verdigris is what...
As a general rule any coin that has that green patina you speak of has suffered from corrosion. I define a coin that has suffered from corrosion...
While I love that design I've always found it hard to get excited about such coins because when it comes down to it they are nothing but replicas....
If the color in the pics is anywhere even close in hand, I agree.
Yeah that happens when you get to be as old as you are :D
A coin being corroded is a matter of definition Chris, not one of open or closed mindedness. It is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of...
Some years ago we had a member who was a metal detector guy that used to post a lot, maybe you remember him Frank. I can't think of his user name...
For whatever it is worth Paul I don't consider either of those coins Red. The criteria for Red is that 95% or more of the coin has to be original...
And the condition. You find a pre-'73 set that is all CAM or DCAM, or high grade coins, and check the value on those.
OK, same kind of question. This coin sold for $805 -...
And if you crack it and send it back to PCGS again it may well come back in a regular slab as AU50, Au53, or even XF45. The wonders of the TPGs...
Yes, using Verdi-Care is a matter of degree. If a coin is completely covered in verdigris or nearly so then Verdi-Care is not going to do much....
I don't know, maybe. But the question was which country had the first round coins. The answer to that is France as they were the first country to...
Yeah the images are copyrighted, but he linked to them, he did not copy/paste them.
No I did not know that, it was new information for me. No, you couldn't, not unintentionally any way. The only way you can produce a Proof with...
I wasn't sating anything negative about the practice of using lasers on bronze disease, that's why I used the word "also" in my comments. But if...
France was the first country to adopt the minting of milled coins. They did this in 1643. Other countries of the world eventually followed their lead.
I don't disagree one bit. Unfortunately, there seems to be huge numbers of them out there. And I am not just talking about those fooled by this 1...
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