We have two scenarios - Scenario 1 - You walk into a coin shop, not looking for anything in particular but just looking. Some slabbed coins in...
Yeah, if you use some 80 grit sandpaper :rolleyes:
And why is that a bait and switch ? Bait and switch is when someone offers to sell you something, but when you go to buy they don't have it and...
No. It just shows that you really are weird after all :D My point is that a serious collector would not want a coin for his collection that has...
Not necessarily. There are so many variables involved when it comes to coins toning that you will never be able to fix it on 1 thing. That's...
Some of the chemists here can say better than me, but it may also be because you mixed it with water. Not everything mixes with water. There...
Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Quality of an optical lens is usually based on the clarity of the image and whether or not the entire lens has the...
Buying an ICG coin is no different than buying a coin in any slab - you forget what the slab says and buy the coin based on its own merits or lack...
I guess it would depend on what the issues and excuses were as to whether or not that is a reason to not trust them. I'm not saying that you...
If it was real, maybe. But no serious collector would buy it even at melt.
I don't know about anybody else but I can't even see the coin in your pictures. I can barely make out the 13 on the one though and it would...
You would think so, but from what I am told even the TPG grading sets consist of 1 coin in each grade. That's no better than using a single...
Well I follow ANA standards pretty strictly, and I've yet to run across anybody, dealer or collector, who's as tough on grading as I am. Now no...
One other thing, you might want to take a look at what the TPGs call F 12. NGC F 12 PCGS F 12 Given this, I rather think that if the OP's...
Lemme save ya a little trouble, the standards have remained identical, except for those two and only in two grades for each, since the 3rd edition...
Yeah I considered that too Matt. But the coin, even the rev, meets the criteria for an ANA F12. And the obverse, which is the more important side,...
:loud: Aaackk ! :bigeyes: Now here is something truly worth marking on the calendar - Mike grading a coin lower than I do !!
Ahhhh - I wondered if that might be it. Yes, the standards for these individual coins, in these particular grades, and only those, were changed in...
There are multiple problems with photos. First of all, I think everyone here will agree that photos do not always show what is there. A slight...
Ya know Mike, it's always possible that NGC blew it :whistle: :D
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