And that's the point, not the quality of the acetone mind you, but rather the fact that we never know exactly what is on a coin when we get it....
Yes, we shall have to agree to disagree. You are accounting for the lack of detail in the hair due to a weak strike and I am saying it is due to...
Then count me as being among the idiots Thad for I have seen it with my own eyes. Acetone can absolutely cause some copper coins to change color....
Seems that one of the others is there as well, same price. Fairly certain I paid more than that, they must have dropped the prices. Tempted to buy...
I would agree about quality of strike, but quality of luster is arguably the single most important factor in modern market grading.
Excellent write up, but I disagree with the part I quoted above, in particular the bold portion. It simply is not true. Yes, after a certain...
Actually you won't know anything for sure. Just because some artificial methods can produce similar toning doesn't prove a thing. Natural toning...
Aren't you kind of contradicting yourself there in regard to the amount of wear on the drapery ? If the coin has very little wear why would you...
Ever hear of clipping jakal ? It is quite likely that the underweight, genuine examples have been clipped. And if you look at their edges closely...
jakal - what I have told you about ducats is 100% accurate. If you took 1000 genuine examples and weighed each and every one - every single one of...
It is a 1/2 reale from the Lima mint struck sometime between 1684 and 1752, probaly one of th eearlier strikings.
Not gonna be a very easy book to find as there were not many copies printed. Mine is the special edition, leather bound, signed and limited to 250...
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I was just providing 1 possible scenario, they could just as easily have been lost by accident and thus end up in the ground. But I do understand...
I trust your judgement Mark, but I have seen them grade AU coins as 64. I rather think plenty of others here have also. But as you said...
Just about anybody could be responsible for them being in the ground. Think about it - what do you do with a pice of junk ? You throw it away. And...
While you and others may have found it interesting, there are those who have complained about this thread and reported it. Keep in mind that not...
Similar to what I thought until I looked closer. In my opinion it's not chatter and hits, for there is some but not much. Instead look closely at...
Not so old, that coin was graded between late '99 and March 2000. And I would agree with the grade assigned by them. I think that in recent...
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