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Re: Dollars done for type set / 2024 accomplishment!
The Peace dollar is one of the nicest I've ever seen
Re: Sizeable losses for nice Fairmont coins tonight.
@MapsOnFire said:
If it is generally recognized that hammer prices are lower on Sundays, why would any auction house end an auction on Sunday?
There is no such recognition.
jmlanzaf
Re: GTG - 1835 Classic Head Half Eagle SLAB POSTED at bottom of thread
I’d rather have the coin in a CACG 25 holder than a PCGS 30 holder. The price difference between the two grades is minimal. The SB glamour shot auction pictures are terrible.
skier07
Re: Rickey Henderson has died.
super sky point to the greatest leadoff man and base stealer of all time
galaxy27
Re: Capital Holder Restoration - The After Results Are Done
I look forward to seeing results as well. What I have always done with bad capital plastic covers is get a new one, as many are interchangeable.
Re: Capital Holder Restoration - The After Results Are Done
Cool, I look forward to seeing your results. I have some similar ones with that same problem.
Mr_Spud
Re: Spotting PVC Damage
@seatedlib3991 asked
@clarkbar04 . Do you have any insight as to what Disneyfan had to say about using pictures? Are there any tells you might know to look for?
@Mr_Spud said:
All the coins had PVC on them, some had progressed far enough to show the green but many just looked hazy. I soaked them all in acetone and it’s gone now, had to do multiple rinses to get it off. But these images from the auction are a good example showing the range of appearance that coins end up with as the PVC progresses from just being hazy to turning green
As you could see from his pictures of circulated coins, some of those coins looked perfectly fine.
Re: 1977 O-Pee-Chee Baseball Box Break!
The other thing I think it’s important to remember is a PSA10 shouldn’t be indicative of a ‘perfect’ card. It should be more reflective of how good an example of the card can be. As @tsalems1 mentions, where in some cases a ‘blemish’ is simply how all examples of a card are. The same goes for rough cuts - which, by and large, are simply part & parcel of OPC issues.
I think this is PSA’s biggest failing. Once upon a time, graders knew each issue well enough to account for what was endemic to the issue vs what was a problem with the particular card. Somewhere along the way, PSA stopped caring and clearly started grading vintage as if they should have been printed with modern technology - laser-cut edges & corners. . .perfect registration. . .no stray print dots or blemishes of any kind, etc.
And somewhere along the way, many/most collectors/buyers just accepted this - despite it being completely detached from PSA’s published criteria.
In my mind, this is what makes this box so remarkable.
