I have both an inexpensive eBay special (+/- 0.01g) AND a more expensive model (+/- 0.001g -...
@COCollector - so they charge a premium for NOT opening the tubes and selecting the best coins? Wow...
There is a lot of PMD there, but it's probably a die chip - http://www.error-ref.com/die-chips/
@CoinBoyBryan visit the National Silver Dollar Roundtable, http://www.nationalsilverdollarroundtable.org/ Although the primary focus is on...
You do need to remember there are two ways these are handled. /1/ is to send the monster box to PCGS or NGC for bulk grading and have the 69s and...
Pure bunk... http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v10n08a15.html and http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-racketeer-nickel-180961066/
Even less actual historical evidence for Josh Tatum....
Now for yourchallenge... You can open the GEC slab (they are not sealed) ether by finding the pin hole and using a pin (leaves marks), or by very...
Smart! Since nobody has responded with the story, when these were 1st issued, they did not have the "CENTS" on the reverse. There was a fear they...
If it's just yellow, that's zinc poisoning of the plating bath. Happens before the planchets get to the mint and is not considered special in any way.
What you are thinking of is this: https://www.pcgs.com/top100/coin6.aspx
Not useless, per se, but certainly more complex. If I were to script it, I would want to query in the most logical order, and to do that I'd need...
It's an improvement (to NGC) because it makes it more difficult to scrape the database. It takes roughly 10x the number of probes per cert, which...
1c are much more common, given that the Mint included a blank in several year's mint sets. Also with 1c, since the switch to Zlincons, the...
The mobile app probably uses a different lookup (API) where the grade is optional (if you scan the barcode, it has the value). Or could be sending...
Actually since each number was hand punched, it would take four triangles.
They're trying to reduce the ease of scraping the database. It makes is harder to check the rest of a submission, etc.
It's not been the cert# but the holder/label combination. e.g. the regency slab is rare period, so the cert# is irrelevant. Same for the doily....
Not to mention extrapolating from one data point.
@lehmansterms: No No No. Tuesday afternoon was set aside for the hair salon. Ancients were made WEDNESDAY morning and finished before lunch - they...
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