Typically it does. Of course it also depends largely on who is looking to buy the coin. Somebody just collecting by type probably wouldn't care at...
One of these Chris we may just have to play a game or two. I was once good enough to beat Alan Hopkins in a match.
It's been discussued many times. In fact it's been tried more than once - didn't work. Still won't work. And it won't work for the reason I...
Granted, you'd think so. But the bottom half of the coin looks exactly like what coins produced with rusty dies look like. And if the bottom is,...
You know this, but I'd wager most others don't. Greg just happened to be the first one, at least that I know of, that admitted what he was doing....
It's easy for them. After all they know exactly who has the coins, so they just call them up and buy it.
It's the one on the right that suffered from die wear, a more shallow punch or whatever Gary. The mint marks are really both the same. Like I...
panda if I undersatand your comments correctly the real problem you have with understanding the grade assigned to that coin is because of the eye...
You'd be better off to just admit you misunderstood and let it go at that.
That's because humans can do things that machines cannot do. Actually a coin can get more that a full point added for exemplary eye appeal....
Anybody with the money to afford the equipment, or that can pay a lab to do it, has access to this stuff - X-ray spectrometry (EDX), Fournier...
Actually the one on the left is normal, it's the one on the right that has a minor difference. The difference is that the bulbous serif on the...
No you don't understand at all, which is what I figured. They, NGC, didn't do anything with fraud as the intent. And cncman did not claim that...
DOH ! :o
The why is simple, because the law that permitted the coinage said it had to be there. Now if you want a better answer than that - good luck....
The blues and purples are pretty common on NT copper. But then I figure that's why the doctors do it too - since it's common it'll pass. But...
Don't forget that it might just be die wear too.
Yeah well in my world you prove when you do it in front of my eyes.
Not buying what ? Are you sure you understand what he is saying ?
If you say so, I'll grant you the image is blury, but it sure looks like 1d to me.
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