Guys people have used everthing there is under the sun to try and protect their coins. They have coated them with every oil or oil product known...
Because there are times when the silver colored CU cladding is pushed down over the edge covering all of the copper core. There have been a...
When you have looked at enough coins, such things tend to jump out at you. When you haven't - you miss them.
Kind of, PCGS also says in their grading guide - " Often the best way to understand something is to understand what it is not. When coins are...
It's been posted before but given this thread it might be helpful to post it again. To see some of these click here - Chinese Fakes - scroll down...
If you place a silver coin and a clad coin side by side and cover them with a Kleenex - the silver coin will show up as whiter. It is an easy way...
Somebody scratched a triangle into the coin.
Nice coins Mike :thumb: About the St. being bagged as cleaned - of all the gold coins I have seen that come back marked as cleaned I can only...
Don't thank me, thank Conder101. I got that bit of knowledge from him many years ago on the old Coin World forum.
Wise comments Mike, but then I expected nothing less from you. However, there are plenty of others who don't know what you know, and to them those...
Ahhh but there's rub - pun intended - we aren't. We are talking about wear that can readily be seen with the naked eye.
I will agree with you Drusus, it is a personal choice that each collector must make for themselves. However, when you make a comment like...
Fair enough, but I was just asking your personal opinion Mike. I will agree, it does tend to make it tough to say on the one hand that wear is...
You got it - sorta figured it would kinda stand out. Now ask yourself - do you agree with that ? Can a coin still have slight wear and still be...
And that is precisely the problem I have with it. Let's take this a bit further. According to the PCGS grading guide - " Perhaps the most...
But how would you know that any given coin didn't see actual circulation ? There is no difference in the wear - a break in the luster is a break...
According to the TPG's a coin with cabinet friction is still worthy of being graded as MS. Personally, wear is wear no matter how it comes about....
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