I feel sorry for the buyer :(
I should be surprised at the grade but I'm not. Gettin used to it I guess. I'm glad for ya Matt, that's a biggie !
My mistake, I misunderstood his/her comment.
You'd think so. But, if you took 3 pictures of the same coin, each time changing the angle and/or the lighting just a little bit, on each of those...
Red Tiger - As I have said several times now, it is accepted as fact by those with knowledge and experience that with some series PCGS does have...
Your pic is better but still not good enough for me. That area on the obv & close to the rim between 3 and 4 o'clock bothers me some and I'd have...
For many years PCGS told their graders not to assign the 70 grade to coins, even if the coin deserved the 70 grade. This falsely inflated the...
There's only 1 recent sale on Heritage in 62 ($2185). But there are several sales in 63 with all of them being right around $3000. In these grades...
Crop the pics down so you can just see a tiny portion of the background around the edges. That will help allow you to increase your picture size....
Well that's a big part of your problem right there. NGC doesn't have a price guide of their own, all they do is copy the Numismedia Price Guide....
A member asked me to post this for him. He wants to know if anyone can identify and provide a value estimate for the penny token. (the cent is...
Here's a real one, look for yourself - http://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/Image:Mexico_1733_8_reales_Ponterio_135-0466.jpg
What they are trying to accomplish is that they don't want anybody to speak the truth when that truth reflects negatively on PCGS. In other words,...
Regarding a point that is continuously posted - that PCGS coins sell for more than NGC coins. I have been hearing that comment since before coin...
In my opinion, yes. What Conder is talking about also results in residue left in the recesses. But the coin doesn't really look polished to me,...
I have my doubts about it being genuine. For one thing the 1733 is one of toughest dates to get from the Mexico mint since most of them were all...
Hmmm, maybe so Conder, but not a one of them has anything about it on their web sites. And what about guys like John Maben, Rick Montgomery, Ken...
As stated, go talk to an accountant. Everybody's situation is different and there is no one solution that works for everybody.
WingedLiberty - What you have written about here has been written about more times, and by more people than you can count. And none of it is...
The books you are talking would fill several pages because there are several writtten for every series of coin. If you narrow your question down...
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