While we wait for emails to cross, you could always try looking at their web site - http://www.coinworld.com/ You'll see that they state the...
Make you a bet - you take one of those coins in your picture, hold it upright, dip it halfway in some Tarn-X for 2 seconds. You'll find out it is...
No Gary, it isn't. And the reason it isn't is because you cannot program a computer to deal with the abstract. And that's what grading coins is.
You pretty much have all the info, don't know of anything else I could add. It's correctly attributed and appears to be genuine. Used to own an...
If I recall correctly there were something like 6 different companies that tried to produce computer prgrams for grading - they all failed....
For the most part CAC tends to go along with and agree with the same things that the TPGs agree with. I don't mean that CAC automatically agrees...
Those fine horizontal lines you mention are one of the indicators that the coin is genuine. They are typically only found of the better struck...
I don't see anything that makes me suspicious. Uneven denticles are normal, it is more uncommon to see them be even all the way around.
What's more important to you - protecting the coins ? Or having them look pretty in a cardboard case ? When you can answer that question -...
Amen to that !
Guess it depends on what's more important to you, maintaining originality or presentation. Myself, I never cared about presentation. If I wanted...
Yeah I read it. It mostly says exactly what I thought it would say. He's been writing pieces along those lines for the past year or so now. Why I...
Personally, I'd leave it in the original holder.
That and because even their fancy new technology cannot tell if the coin has been dipped or not. To be able to detect dipping their would have...
With most of those, at least every one I have ever seen, you get pure generic coins that are mostly over-graded or low for the grade, over-priced,...
Yeah, the first issue of the month, every month. That one is their special issue that has all the other stuff in it. The other 3 issues a month...
The reason it's amazing to you is because you don't realize what happens to coins. You, like many other collectors, seem to think that people buy...
Of course it's possible, no one has ever denied that. But - which one is more probable ? That is really the question. When the odds are 8, or...
But only very, very few of them. And then to an even smaller group of people who seem willing to pay that premium mainly because they don't...
Doesn't look like it to me, looks like the sharp edge that a strike through has.
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