Enough ! If you have something to say then say it. But there is to be no more finger pointing or personal attacks - by anybody !
The conservation service that PCGS now offers, and it's a fairly new service, has nothing to do with the Secure Plus service, it's an entirely...
Josh I've been studying coins for over 50 years. And while I can identify some fakes, I dang sure can't identify all of them. The point I am...
Ya know, after reading through this whole thread I gotta say I was just about floored by some of the comments. Dunno why though, after...
If the circular ring is rough then it was definitely not from an old tab holder, but from some other form of damage. It could even be from a...
All that you have to remember is that harshly cleaned and improperly cleaned mean exactly the same thing. There is no difference at all - ever....
Jeff there is a difference when you see Damaged on the label, that's an entirely different thing than harsh cleaning. There are quite a few...
Steven, I'm surprised nobody else mentioned it yet, but the very first thing you need to do is to get your coins out of your basement and keep...
First of all, yes there is such a thing as a properly cleaned coin and yes they are graded and slabbed. There are literally tens of millions of...
While I understand your reasoning for physically cutting metal off the coin in order to stop further deterioration, no, I could not call that...
Yes the coin does look to have been harshly cleaned. And the weight being off by 2 tenths of a gram, no, that could not be attributable to wear. A...
Yup, Rocky is correct. But I am not stingy at all, I have never clicked on the Like button period. And never will. If I have something positive to...
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OK, but may I ask why you think they should have different meanings ? But it is a black and white situation and here's why. If you rinse a coin...
For me, $4000. But the coins I last collected, even though they were many times more scarce than US coins, cost but a fraction of the price of...
There are literally thousands of words that if you asked 100 different people to define those words and explain what they meant - you would get a...
You're far from being alone in your thinking that gold does not tone Chris, I know that. The idea that gold does not tone has been the accepted...
I don't know if coingeek12 ever had anything in the Gallery, or not. But when I searched the Gallery yesterday, he did not have anything there then.
There is no distinction between the two terms - cleaning and conserving - they are both the same thing. Conserving or conservation is nothing more...
As I have suggested many times, anybody who wants to prove to themselves and see with their own eyes that gold, even pure gold, tones - can easily...
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