OK it's been said. Now let's drop it. It has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
OK - so what do you call a collector or dealer dipping a coin with unsightly toning ? If you want to call that a careful, scientific process -...
The first of your coins is 2 escudo minted under Phillip II 1556-1598 of Spain at the Seville mint. It is most likely from the first 10 years of...
Had to take a pill on that one :D :secret: so do I ;) Say it isn't so :D
The coin has XF details, AU at best but it's impossible to say based on those pics. But it also has what might be considered damage and that would...
Threads come and threads go. How good they are, or how good they are perceived to be, depends largely on the participants. And if the participants...
Look, it's not that I haven't considered anything. I know there are a hundred possible differences. The point is you are supposed to accept the...
You can't. Once polished the luster is destroyed and once the luster is destroyed the coin is not going to tone, except to a dull grey color, even...
That is quite true, if it is done wrong. But - if it is done correctly, it often increases the value. People always seem to use the word...
If you want to see what is going on in the market at any given time just take a look at the index graphs you'll find - HERE
You have fallen into the "trap" that all too many fall into. When the coin won't stay in the hole, find something that will make it stay there....
That's my point, there most definitely are things that don't add up. The value is immaterial. I think I know what has happened here, but at...
Gotta admit, I was wondering too because that first pic sure looks like 5. But I'm convinced :thumb:
Would you guys like to stop now ? Or shall we keep going ? I can hand out infractions all day long.
Look again, it's under the 1.
No, it isn't. I don't know of one single person who is knowledgeable about coins that blindly accepts the grade assigned by any TPG. That is...
Yes, the value is easily checked. But don't forget, Grey Sheet is based on sight seen coins. And if whoever is looking at that coin and they do...
They sell them on ebay from time to time and occasionally even in some of the larger coin auctions. Most examples have broken hinges though....
Technically it is not a law. It is a ruling, for lack of a better word, by the US Treasury.
Somehow it seems that most are missing the point. These two sentences sum it up - Why is it right for you to buy the coin and not the slab and...
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