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If it ain't mintstate...................

but it's a key date coin where there are known to be TONS of counterfeits (like a 16-D, or a 14-D, or an SVDB)............ Does it matter which of the big 3's plastic it's in to you ?????????
Cam-Slam 2-6-04
3 "DAMMIT BOYS"
4 "YOU SUCKS"
Numerous POTD (But NONE officially recognized)
Seated Halves are my specialty !
Seated Half set by date/mm COMPLETE !
Seated Half set by WB# - 289 down / 31 to go !!!!!
(1) "Smoebody smack him" from CornCobWipe !
IN MEMORY OF THE CUOF image

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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Not particularly. If it's in a PCGS, NGC, ANACS or ICG holder, I'm pretty confident about its authenticity.

    But I'd want to make sure that I also understood the diagnostics of authentic and counterfeit coins for that date/mint before I cracked it out to keep in an album (which is what I'd want to do with most circulated key dates in a series I collected).
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,546 ✭✭✭✭✭
    no, because it isn't going to be in the slab anyway just as soon as I find a hammer.

    Jim
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    No.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It doesn't matter. The four you listed are all good at detecting counterfeits. If you crack it , you can kiss the guarantee goodbye.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557


    << <i>Not particularly. If it's in a PCGS, NGC, ANACS or ICG holder, I'm pretty confident about its authenticity.

    But I'd want to make sure that I also understood the diagnostics of authentic and counterfeit coins for that date/mint before I cracked it out to keep in an album (which is what I'd want to do with most circulated key dates in a series I collected). >>

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    -George
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