No that is not a lamination. It has been struck with a punch just like you describe. It is not difficult to stop flattening on the reverse, a...
Counterfeit would be the wrong word - altered coin would be the coreect term. As to why - to induce someone who could not recognize an altered...
But there is a limit, 3 nominations per member. Not sure when Peter set the limit, but there is one.
He's not being rude, he's rephrasing his comment so that you understand that the coin is a fake.
I'm not stopping it from developing, not in the least. I'm merely ask people to define what they are talking about. But in the interst of...
Slight correction there Darryl, Doug no longer owns any coins. But I certainly used to own some like you described ;)
But that is part of the problem Bone - people discussing things when they don't even know what they are discussing. And if you try and tell me...
TW - you can find the coin you are asking about here - Coin Facts - just scroll down to the gold section.
Nominations do not end until tonight.
I moved your posts for you.
While most think that to be true, it isn't. Quite often a coin with a special designation such as FS or FBL is not really fully struck - just the...
Nope, it requires a great deal of luck.
One comment I will make NP is this - there are two times when I will say that IMO the TPG gets it wrong. 1 - will be when the grade assigned to a...
That would be it. Didn't know such a thing existed. I stand corrected. So now, tell me what's wrong with it ? At what other business can you...
As usually happens in these discussion there are a lot of comments made that really don't ring true. The reason for that is because few really...
Didn't know that, a poor assumption on my part.
You can be one yourself, provided you can meet the qualifications listed on that web page.
Well if nothing else all of you might be interested to know that The Numismatist publishes similar discussions on a monthly basis - all of them...
I do not disagree, which is why the first words in my posts were - as a genral rule. That was so folks would understand that I was not talking...
The answer is quite simple - the high values in higher grades is dictated by availabilty. In other words, there are only small numbers of these...
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