Bet on what ? What the standards say or that you didn't understand them ?
ROTFL !! Yeah, there may be hope for the kid yet :D
Sorry - mixing up my posts here :o The high points are tip of the crown, above the eye and hair above the ear - eagle's neck and right talon....
Bone is that perhaps because you never really understood the ANA standards ? Even the first edition, and every edition after that, mentions that...
Appreciate that answer as I had the same question a while back. But let me ask you bit more pointed question John - when you were gaining this...
When you go to coin shows, what you find there is determined by the dealers. And they base that on their past experience with what the people...
Coins with die clash marks are slabbed all the time. As to value, that depends on a lot of variables.
Hardly -
If I am understanding you correctly, you are talking about making allowances for cases where all known coins of a given date, mint & denomination...
You're not visualizing correctly - wax on, wax off ;)
Unless they thought that was a planchet flaw on the rim, that coin should have been body bagged IMO. Ans based on the other heavy hits, I don't...
Is this your new favorite grade Mike ? Been seeing you say that a lot lately.
Kevin, it wasn't that I was saying that you should not take the coin along, it was that I was saying that there was no need to take the coin...
A simple question - do you believe that all coins of a given grade and all the same date, mint and denomination, say MS65 just for an example, are...
You're right it is scary, the nightmares are terrible :D
Kinda funny Drusus, but if you go back and look, those who are coin dealers also agreed with my definition. I guess perhaps I should a...
You should like me for reasons besides that ;)
Look again Rusty, at the hair directly above and to each side of the ear.
Yes.
You can't remove corrosion, you can only remove the substance that is causing the corrosion. And once that substance is removed, the corrosion...
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