Hmmm, you're entitled to your opinion of course. But the question - what's proper etiquette for a collector at a coin show is one that a great...
Look close Rusty, they aren't symmetrical. But I do understand why that one area could make one think it is textile toning. But what about the...
Yeah, I thought so too, until I looked it up. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600649/touchstone But if you really want to research it,...
On shows, yes I have and for good reason. But not on local coins stores per se, but rather on good dealers. But just because I emphasize the value...
That's the problem with assumption and misinterpretation. You only see, (read), what you want to see, instead of what is actually there.
Dunno, might be, might not. But it's not uncommon for a coin of a specific variety to be the top pop for just that specific variety even though...
That's exactly the point, there are no symmetric dots on the OP's coin !
Boy I don't know how you can misread what I say so badly as that ! I have repeated time and time and time again that coin dealers are but ONE, 1,...
You have to remember a couple of things. When you look up pop numbers on the NGC or PCGS web sites you see current, present date, pop numbers. But...
LOL ! Nobody disputes that Chris. I guess I would ask, what part of "beginning" is it that do you not understand ? That's all I'm saying buddy,...
Don't know if the Chinese used them or not, but touchstones were used for testing gold and silver for thousands of years. And they are still being...
Not saying he was, but he did consolidate Europe under one leader, the first since the fall of Rome.
First of all this wasn't my idea, it existed long before I ever came along. I am merely pointing it out. Charlemagne was chosen because he is the...
I'm going to go back to an idea I discussed on this topic quite a few years ago. That being that before the question, what is ancient, can be...
That's the answer to your question Cmcart. Varieties (VAMs) can be caused by many things, tool marks, die clashes, doubled dies, RPMs, RPDs, etc...
Used to be some who said the reign of Charlemagne was the delineation. But it really depends on who you ask, as I imagine you'll see as soon as...
And before you were born, (heck before I was born !), there was a generation doing it with ticker tapes, and then teletypes, and then computers...
Does it matter ? There are so many examples of NGC and PCGS both doing things similar to that report that they are almost beyond counting.
And it probably is, or soon will be, in Krause's - Unusual World Coins. That's the book where they usually list issues like this.
A few things: There are plenty of NT coins that have similar toning. The mint stopped using the cardboard holders for Mint Sets in mid '55. An XF...
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