Cover the top of your ring light with a hollow circle of black paper - to prevent any of it shining upward into the lens, while letting the lens...
A better analogy is to postulate that safety testing for automobiles is completely unreliable, and as a result car dealers band together to test...
Then I've no way to understand what or why you're thinking; I was trying to be kind. The whole point of CAC is that the principals have a vested...
Looks like a pretty hard scrape, and although I can't agree with certainty that it's circulated - not enough data in these images for "certainty"...
And I think you did an excellent job on choosing them. :)
1) Luster depiction requires one or two (at most three) single light sources positioned as close to vertical above the coin as possible, shining...
You're missing quite a bit of fact here. CAC was founded by John Albanese, a major dealer who was also NGC's first President and part of the...
Anyone with enough numismatic background to understand the resulting piece would be far less likely to be scrutinized as a counterfeit, while...
That's scary, and not complimentary to PCGS.
CAC was created by dealers, for dealers, because they were sick and tired of low-level coins in TPG slabs. Biased? Of course they are, biased in...
No you can't, because only a half-dozen or so a year appear at auction. :P
Yes, they do, using the full 70 point scale (Proofs escape into circulation sometimes, and can get circulated grades), but with the prefix PF...
I have to recuse myself from grading because this got me interested in Merc Proofs and I ended up finding the coin online. They would make for an...
That thread was hilarious. I limited my own response to one line, one of the most difficult things I've ever done. :)
Dunno; good possibility. I've seen plenty of Red Label (Details) PCI stuff from that era, too, as well.
Remember the "reclusive collector" thread? There are a few of those type of collector involved in CAC, too - big money folks, the types who order...
I hate to be picky but that coin has a mark on it. :P Good golly, man. That's a 67 with one nick in a bad place in the obverse field. Probably...
Can't see the coin clearly enough to make fer-shure conclusions about grade and surface quality, but I trust PCI's opinion on slabs with the...
Huge strike. Hammered. This ain't a Business Strike. Not guessing at the grade until I know how much of the scratches are on the slab.
They are dealers.
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