i touch coins that were around, and used, during the black plague. i guess i should be dead!
i was not aware that pcgs did that book. my bad.
nice coins mat!
that makes me think it's overcleaned, not necessarily a fake. for instance... [ATTACH] this one is waaaay over cleaned. the dealer labeled it as...
pcgs, ngc, and the ana all have different standards. the only one that prints it's standards is the ana. when someone is grading a coin in a pcgs...
you will never have that. grading is, and always has been, 100% opinion. nothing more, nothing less. just take a look at all the "what would you...
i got 4/7... i actually knew 3 of them, guessed right on the other one.
thank you very much doug!! :D like i said, i have wildwinds (and google) for references. wildwinds does not have the coin listed on the site. i...
this coin is bugging me. the only reference i am able to use is wildwinds. however, my coin (ae3, trier mint) doesn't match any listed. the...
this one looks like it may be a FEL TEMP from constantius ii... possibly... i could be very wrong on my guess.
gordian iii, died february 244 a.d., at the age of 19 [ATTACH]
thanks wiggam for hosting it again this year!
i feel the same way about edwardian pence. i just can't get enough of them!
i don't sell coins, i collect them, hence, i am a coin collector. raw is the only type of coin in my collection.
and plastic, a modern invention, (and i use modern loosely) is the right way? plastic isn't 200 years old. slabbing a coin isn't 50 years old. is...
i never said they weren't cleaned. i don't debate the fact that they were. i know they were. however......
and a 1794 large cent was never cleaned? ever???????? cleaning, or "conservation" as ncs calls it, and harsh cleaning are very different.
thank you for breaking it down!!
point conceded. i was hasty in my response. however, no matter how vaild your point is, i am against slabs. coins survived for thousands of years...
air tones too. what will a slab do after 100 years of exposure?
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