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Nefarious on part of PCGS? I’m more inclined to believe that the guy is the one being nefarious here than PCGS. Do I believe that PCGS can do no...
I’d say that settles it. Nice find! End of discussion. I nominated you. If he was complaining that the PCGS grading system was a complete...
Artemis on the reverse on this one isn’t creepy at all. :) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
For the sake of sharing, here is a Ban Liang with a sun and moon on it: [ATTACH]
1. The style of the characters looks correct, but the patina gives me pause. It just seems too smooth. My initial gut feeling was that it was not...
I knew you were going to post that. ;) Are you keeping it for your own collection?
I saw that and I chuckled to myself. This guy isn’t even trying to be reputable/realistic.
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But it was not mistakenly switched with another coin from a different order. That’s the key difference here
There is just no way for such severe marks to just disappear with the lighting. There is too much metal displacement: [ATTACH]
Then explain how the major rim hits above ST in TRUST are clearly visible in the slabbed picture and completely nonexistent in the raw picture....
Based on previous stories I’ve heard, this I know can happen. I’ve never heard of a single coin getting mixed up.
I vehemently disagree
That’s my point.
Oops. I meant decreasing. The value has definitely been decreasing just like all moderns as populations increase.
No, but the owner explicitly did.
By that metric are only an expert in grading if you spent 5 years at grading company grading coins from 9 to 5 every weekday.
Ooor one could just avoid collecting coins where touching it will decrease the value by hundreds or thousands of dollars. Museums and graders...
Okay, so what I looked for was major metal movement in well-lit areas on both sets of pictures: On the obverse, the rims tell the most-telling...
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