It is but it is not uncommon. It happens when the dies are not aligned correctly.
When it comes right down to it, you can't. The only way to prove it is legitimate is to send the slabbed coin in to the TPG and have them verify...
Last I heard out on his own in the coin biz.
There is no way to avoid it, at least no legal way.
FYI - don't pay much attention to estimates given by auction houses. Actual realized prices can be all over the map, higher, lower, close - anywhere.
Kasia, I just couldn't help myself. Devil made me do it :devil: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
If it were me, I would just charge an hourly rate + expenses and be done with it.
I'm not saying having the number is a bad thing, it isn't. I'm just saying that sometimes trying to look a coin up by KM number alone is very...
I would say it should be more like AU53. For a coin to be graded AU58 it should only have the slightest traces of wear on the high points. But...
There are no rules for calling a group of coins a hoard. Sometimes even a small group of 30 coins is called a hoard and other times there are a...
Not really, a lot of the time the KM numbers do not run in order in the book. So if all you had was the KM number, you could sometimes search for...
I don't know how you got that out of what I said. It is most definitely not my meaning. As I have said countless times, even a coin that you get...
Actually there was. The publishing of the new ANA standards in '87 and the inception of PCGS and NGC in '86 and '87 was not a coincidence. It was...
Heck of a coin Ruben ! Thanks for posting it.
I hate it when they do that, it just isn't right. But the part that really gets to me, is that people accept it - they allow it to happen. As...
Well that is exactly the problem. Everybody has their own definition.
That depends on who you ask. There has been an argument about what a variety is and what an error is for as long as the words have been used in...
There is a very distinct difference between contact marks and wear Mike. Contact marks never, ever, look like wear. And wear, never,ever, looks...
Bag marks do not stop a coin from being Mint State. A coin can have a gazillion bag marks and still be Mint State. There are only 3 things that...
So when do you consider a coin to have entered the "channels of commerce" ? Is a coin in a bank in the channels of commerce ? To me it most...
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