My last paragraph in that post was not being addressed to you Books. But you're right I didn't answer your question, I realized that myself after...
That was kind of the whole point of my comments Books, which is essentially the same comment I've been making in quite a few posts in recent times...
To put it another way, every single coin that is newly minted is a "fresh" coin, a coin that is new to the market - by any definition. So fresh...
I completely agree. But then did you really think that anybody was talking about coins that were unremarkable ? Ya see Jaelus, your comments are...
In the past 20 years you could count on your fingers the number of newly discovered coins - and still have fingers left over. I wouldn't be...
As a general rule there 4 acceptable ways, methods of properly cleaning coins. 1 - distilled water 2 - acetone 3 - xylene 4 - coin dip All of...
I seem to recall from some years ago a thread or post where somebody actually collected those things. So to answer your question there probably...
It's just another example of misinformation and bad information that is found so often in today's media. And if you give it a week or two that...
There's a few different ways of looking at it. One would be it's an advertising technique to use that adjective, merely an example of the same...
There's lots of them, that one is just the most recent, and it only touches on a few things. Use the search function, you'll find more threads...
Fair warning though folks - dipping coins is NOT something you wanna mess with if you have no experience at doing it ! It is extremely easy to...
Everybody has different ideas about that. Some use acetone, some use concoctions they mix up themselves. But my preference was always distilled...
I just gave you 2 days to edit the post :)
Being familiar with how they grade is a completely different thing than knowing what the standards are that they use and follow ! Anyone who...
The very first thing that everyone needs to learn - is what coins that have not been harshly cleaned are supposed to look like ! And this includes...
It won't hurt ya, tens of millions of coins have been dipped with bare hands. But I can see by your later post that you kinda figured that out....
Learning how to correctly identify harshly cleaned coins is one of the hardest things there is to do in numismatics. It requires a great deal of...
It's a good place to start, but not for understanding how PCGS grades coins ! I say that because PCGS has never, ever, used or followed ANA...
Hmmmm - not sure if that qualifies as a single helix, a double helix, or a semi-solid helix :D What I do know is I can't even imagine trying to...
My hat's off to ya John ! :) I think your work, effort, and dedication is unrivaled ;)
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