There is one issue with your comments regarding weakly struck coins that must be recognized. It's not that the luster on the coin is unbroken,...
You are correct. That coin in the picture is a pinata not a kite. As for the mistake, well, they happen when people who know nothing about the...
While I understand, appreciate, and am truly flattered by your comments, I've done my share of teaching over the years, and not just about coins....
Is learning to grade a daunting task ? You bet it is. But then what in life is not ? All of us go to school for 12 years, and that's just to learn...
I say the opposite is true actually because many, if not not most circulated coins don't have any luster at all. I'm not gonna say it's unheard...
In fairness, that used to be true Mike. But consider this - over half of the coins slabbed by the TPGs are moderns. That's a lot of coins, 25...
Thanks for the compliment, but why should it be ? There's nothing in my post that I haven't posted literally 100 or more times before. Should all...
Nobody really answered your question - not completely anyway. Yes, if you over-dip the coin it will affect the coin in a negative way. But if you...
Yep, there are some out there, no doubt of that. There may even be a few collections out there that consist of raw high quality coins, or have a...
A member sent me a PM with the question of what books and web sites I would recommend to help him learn to grade. Now at first glance that would...
A couple of things here. Just about every museum there is, regularly takes the coins in their collection and has an employee wipe them all down...
Or all the more reason not to.
And you won't, because there isn't one. Even if you pulled and melted every fake that was found, they would just make more.
Then ya better give up on trying to buy coins because it's going to a rare dealer indeed who has not unknowingly passed a fake. And don't think...
Seriously ?? Just how many nice, or high quality, coins do you think there are ? And who exactly would be the owners of these collections ? And...
Oh I dunno, some sets of golf clubs cost many thousands of dollars. A boat - nothing but a hole in the water that you pour money into. I've got a...
True. But that doesn't matter. It exists.
Every state has a law that says that you can't sell counterfeits as genuine. So if you buy a coin from a dealer and find out that it is a...
There is no such thing as a "safe" investment - ever.
Then make doubly sure to never tell her that you shouldn't compare investments, not even what some call investments, to expenses in order to make...
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