Proofs and business strikes have surfaces that react very differently to handling, so differences in grading are appropriate. What bothers me...
No. The overwhelmingly vast majority of varieties are unintentional. An intentional variety is by far the exception. There are countless types...
This coin is not an error! If it is a feature consistently mass produced identically on thousands of coins it is by definition a variety and NOT...
Congrats on your win - a fantastic custom crown set! Unbelievable we have 2 major awards for the club this year (at least?).
Thanks. Looks like one of my sets won for Best Presented World Set. You and @Lehigh96 have won in a best presented category before too if I...
You're telling me an established dealer is fraudulently cancelling a sale like this over a measly $7. Nope. I don't buy it. I believe the things...
You made me second guess myself. I went and checked and it is the softcover red book. I had remembered it being hardcover for some reason. I think...
A great book. Roger is in my local coin club and he signed my copy of the hardcover.
Shipments from Germany to the US are basically not happening as far as I can tell. I have packages I ordered back in October that are still...
Here are three new Hungarian proofs I recently picked up. The 1966-1967 proof sets contained silver versions of the 1, 2, and 5 forint coins. The...
Not a flaw at all. This is a variety and it is a nearly perfect as-struck example.
You can send all your faster submissions in with a "ship with" attached to a slower tier submission. It could even be one coin on a slower tier,...
Yes, absolutely. Many times. This happens as you say, when finalization changes the grade, or also if the coin fails QC. For example, the slab is...
Probably Hungarian. It's barely related to other modern languages. [ATTACH]
65 It is also likely PL, but there's zero chance of getting the designation due to the toning (an unfair and ridiculous practice in my opinion...
Yeah I completely get what you're saying, but it's still in the billions struck right? I would call those better dates in the ultra modern set,...
The keys for Lincoln cents are 1909 S VDB, 1909 S, 1914 D, and 1931 S. I don't think there are even any semi-keys after 1933.
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I couldn't wait and opened mine already! A note from my secret santa, along with the mystery gift. Let's see what's inside.. [ATTACH] For the...
This. If you're not completely willing to eat the cost without a second thought, you should be using registered mail so this kind of thing...
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