No, it doesn't. Harshly cleaned and improperly cleaned do mean the same thing though.
Yes it is normal. What would be abnormal would be to not find some signs corrosion on an ancient coin.
Others have already tried the idea. The IRS kindly informed them they were wrong ;)
They're on lots of coins. Most people just don't know what they are and typically attribute them to being something else.
Please post pics of the coins.
Probably more aware of that than there are aware that an entire Proof Set of 1868 US coins was struck in aluminum.
I don't know that they ever released that information. But if you contact NGC you might be able to find out how many of each they slabbed. It...
Mike Meziak's show makes tons of money, yours won't.
Sure, lots of them. But there's a whole lot more that have been cleaned. Just make sure you remember that there is a huge difference between the...
Are you sere they are milk spots ? What most people call milk spots, are not milk spots at all.
To be honest, I think every network will turn it down.
I think the 2 Morgans would make it through but the rest are kind of iffy.
It would make no difference whatsoever because the lathe lines are not on the hub, they are on the die blank - the working die blank. Hubbing the...
Yes it will progress. Slabs do not stop toning, they only slow it down. But the fact that you are noticing the toning at all indicates that you...
Don't get your hopes up too much. You see the coins found on the wreck were actually pretty common. So getting examples that are undamaged - all...
Took the words right of my mouth.
Yeah, that has always been the assumption. Buy why did people ever make that assumption in the first place ? The answer is pretty simple -...
The metal was cut, peeled back and folded down over top the letters. That's all, no big mystery. Similar things happen rather often by accident....
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The slabs are fine.
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