There are no such indicators. Light wear on the high points of coins from being in a roll looks exactly the same as light wear on the high points...
No, he wasn't the only founding member. But he's certainly the one who came up with the idea and put it all together. As for an auction house,...
LOL ! Never spent much time doing that, but I reckon I can remember how ;)
That is so cool ! And Assur, I want to thank you, you've given me an idea, something I never thought about until now. I doubt that it would ever...
I love the history aspect of coins ! Here's a couple I used to own that I have described many times. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This one is one of the...
Your quote is a good example of what I wast talking about. Charles V was not "of Germany". He was Spanish, both his parents were Spanish, but he...
That's only because you've never played against me ;)
Hmmm - lemme ask you this. If you had two people to help you decide whether to buy a coin or not - one being me, and the other being somebody who...
And I don't blame ya :D Woulda done the same thing had the opportunity presented itself ;)
I saw quite a few, I agreed with their grade most of the time, but not always. But did you ever think that their being conservative is exactly...
I agreed with just about everything you said, until you said this. This company - http://www.davidhall.com/ - existed for 10 years before PCGS...
John - There is no definitive answer, no right or wrong, to the question of how the dollar sign originated. All anybody has is a theory, an...
Shouldn't do that. Form your own opinion regardless of what anybody else says. That's how you learn.
And I didn't say it was post mint damage. You're assuming again, putting words into my mouth. Planchet quality is a grading criteria. Dents, left...
My grade - 64. Their grade - who knows ?
I'm inclined to agree. But then not everybody knows where to look, or even how to look, to do that homework. Some of them just need pointed in the...
Paul I readily agree that there is subjectivity between any 2 people (assuming they both know how to grade) who grade the same coin. But the vast...
Brandon - First of all I readily agree that there is no single standard of grading followed by everybody, least of all the TPGs. Each TPG has...
We are in agreement ;)
No, they are not. Easy, it is because every year new dies are made. And the dies made this year, can be slightly different (have different die...
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