Oh Good Lord ! Probably not more than a thousand or so :D Short and sweet. I started collecting coins in 1960. Have studied them, read just every...
Yes those are fine.
koen - If you have one test it. If it smells like a new shower curtain - PVC. If it is soft and pliable and you can bend it back and forth, crease...
Thanks for the kind words, but it's really just common knowledge.
I have no idea. I don't know the different brand names and whether they contain PVC or not. I just know how to tell PVC sheets from non PVC...
No. It is not direct contact with the PVC laden plastic that you have to worry about, even for the coins themselves. It is the gas that the PVC...
I have never even heard of a single professional, dealer, grader, authenticator, who ever used gloves. Not once. The advice of using gloves to...
Guy this sentence is about the only thing I'd disagree with. TPGs were the last ones to get to the game. Even back in the 1800's people were...
Yes, they do. There's lots of them. There are quite a few that are even unique - 1 example known to exist.
First of all do a little test. Take a few coins out of those sheets. Then bend and fold that portion of the sheet like you were folding a piece of...
Yes, I believe you do.
No, but almost every series has examples that people call rare. That doesn't mean they are rare. There's quite a few actually, coins that really...
Bad idea for many reasons. Cardboard dust, poor protection, staple scratches, sulphur contamination, to name a few. I've asked this question a...
The problem with that is that it often takes a lifetime before you learn enough to know it. The advantage that TPGs offer is for people who have...
Even if you throw the counterfeits out, the coins still aren't rare. The reason there appears to be a countless number of rare coins on ebay is...
I stand corrected.
It is also extremely important to remember that die polish lines will always be parallel and will always run in the same direction. On both of...
And you have been doing this for how long ? I ask because the majority of the sheets that you describe are made with PVC. One of the worst things...
That depends on what you want and what you intend to do with the coin. Do you want the highest grade you can get, or the most accurate and...
That says it all. I know a lot of people disagree with me when I say that ebay, in general, is a terrible place to buy coins. People just...
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