And the marketplace has given us a verdict........ G6 plus a smidge (a technical term). The coin sold for $93. Made enough for a good hamburger...
Why so down on taking input from the forum?
A warning about submitting your coins to NGC for conservation. As you can read in the previous entries to this thread things went well with the...
Well... as I indicated a while back, I was going to send the 1909 S VDB penny to NGC for conservation to see if they could breathe any life into...
Thanks to all who have replied. I like the idea of substituting any better-than-MS60 coins for MS60's because that's what people expect and are...
That makes sense. Never had coins and guns stored together though but I'll remember that going forward. THANKS!!
About 40 years ago I bought a roll of uncirculated 1934-D pennies in a tube from the local coin shop. It has pretty much sat in the safe deposit...
Read right past the last sentence in your earlier post. OK.... How DO you know that firearms and coins don't play well together??? BTW, I sent...
Thomas, the reason that my line of thinking went down the multi-grade path is that in 1979 I had a 1932-D quarter that I sent to ANACS for...
Thanks TM. I hadn't discovered PCGS Coin Facts yet but I checked it out and I do like the multiple options you can see of the same grade coin....
I have an 1892-S Barber dime that I recently acquired as a G-4 graded coin. (Photos attached.) Using the PCGS PhotoGrade examples, the coin is a...
I think I'm going to make the conservation attempt based on what seems to be the prevalent advice. Thanks for your concern on the medical front....
I'm hoping you're wrong but afraid you might be right. I'll remain optimistic and attempt the restoration and regrading approach first. If I can...
Thanks!
Hadn't ever heard of a "woodie" other than a car I've longed for since I was a teenager! I suppose if it is a woodie that restoration and...
I hadn't discovered the NGC Conservation service yet. Thanks for the suggestion. In looking briefly at their website they look pretty thorough...
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