Apparently the truck on its way from the US Mint to Florida spent the night in a Walmart parking lot when the thieves hit it. See the link. Cal...
Jack, Thanks for your valuable work. This fake supposedly has a NFC chip. Would be interesting to try to read it. Do you know if anyone has...
I read the whole thing and learned more than I needed about FDR’s monetary policy in the early 1930s. Pretty well written and very well...
Stack away! I do it for convenience when coins are at home. Most of them spend most of their time in a safe deposit box. Wish NGC and PCGS...
If you want to see it in a different light, look below. Cal [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Great set! Great job! Completing a set that a collector has been working on for a long time is one of the most satisfying moments possible in...
Not only is it a grade, it gets more points in the registry than the same number without a plus. Cal
If you send a coin to cross at the same grade and the graders feel it deserves a higher grade, they'll do it. I once sent a NGC-graded MS64...
Before they changed their policy to grade never decreasing and if the grade went down, they would pay you the market value difference between the...
I was happy to see that if a coin is reported as stolen to NGC that they tag the cert. no. And anyone who tries to verify the cert. no. gets the...
Personally, I don’t buy coins worth more than about $100 directly through eBay. And those I buy directly are always recent world mint coins...
I wonder how they do this in mints. Appears serial number is stamped into the planchet at same time coin is struck rather than before or after...
You can find recent auction prices for details coins at PCGS or Great Collections. Great Collections is especially good for this because they...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here's mine: 2017 Austria silver-niobium 25 Euro microcosm commemorative, NGC MS70. Let's see yours. Cal
For PCGS, I use either FedEx or USPS. There are different delivery addresses for each that are on the PCGS website. Main advantage of FedEx is I...
Risk of loss or damage is proportional to the number of packages … twice as many packages, twice the risk. OTOH, if there is loss or damage to a...
I’ve done it many times with no problems. For each order, wrap the coins and form with packing material (bubble wrap, foam, paper, etc.) and...
Best way to slow this down a lot is chipping slabs. If done right, next to impossible to duplicate or transfer. Will only slow it a lot, but...
I have my doubts, but they make a go of it. It’s possible that CAC is just waving a flag to see who salutes and who spits. A few thoughts on it:...
I never sell via eBay; always through auction companies or direct to dealers. I’ve bought only one expensive coin through eBay. Learned I could...
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