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  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
    "PQ+++++++++" . I got so tired of seeing this on a dealers web site on EVERY coin that I stopped looking. Can a coin really be that PQ ?
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,159 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How about a phrase that I have never heard, but that I read this afternoon on these boards written by one member and directed to another? Here it is with one word edited to add $$ instead of SS-


    << <i>I am GOING TO PUT A FOOT IN YOUR A$$ IN BALTIMORE if you dont stop messing up the rest of our business. Think about that a minute, someone you dont know out of the blue. >>

    >>



    I took that post as evidence we truly live in a classless society. image

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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>How about a phrase that I have never heard, but that I read this afternoon on these boards written by one member and directed to another? Here it is with one word edited to add $$ instead of SS-


    << <i>I am GOING TO PUT A FOOT IN YOUR A$$ IN BALTIMORE if you dont stop messing up the rest of our business. Think about that a minute, someone you dont know out of the blue. >>

    >>



    I took that post as evidence we truly live in a classless society. image >>

    Yes, I saw this as well. Can't understand what the heck is going on with this poster.



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  • "100% natural" - to describe an ugly coin.
  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,444 ✭✭✭
    market acceptable.
  • (on ebay): "XF+++" followed by "PCGS priced at $40,000 in MS67".
    Also: "Sorry about the pictures. They're a little fuzzy".
    JET
    It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi.

    I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    Body Bag, as when I submit coins. For example a raw 1908 Saint I submitted recently that was bagged for a relatively small rim nick.
  • pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭✭
    this isn't necessarily a numismatic term, but when a seller answers a question with "It is what it is." that grinds my gears!
  • DD Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
    I absolutely hate when someone writes something like "G/VG".

    I can't think of any time a coin is two grades.

    -D
    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

    -Aristotle

    Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

    -Horace
  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I absolutely hate when someone writes something like "G/VG".

    I can't think of any time a coin is two grades.

    -D >>



    The slash is supposed to mean that the obverse and reverse are of different grades. Nothing wrong with that. Alternatively, and IMO at least not quite correctly, it could mean that the coin is somewhere between G and VG. The grades we have are merely arbitrary points along a multi-dimensional continuum and do not truly exhaust numismatic reality.
    --

    Ed. S.

    (EJS)
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Modern crap hurts my feelings image
  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I can't think of any time a coin is two grades.

    -D >>



    I would venture to guess that you haven't resubmitted many coins... image
  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,899 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS70
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  • The grade-POS

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  • << <i>I hate "widget". Used by elitist dealers to denigrate lower valued coins and those who collect them. >>



    Agree 100%.
    "College men from LSU- went in dumb, come out dumb too..."
    -Randy Newmanimage
  • RARE !!!!!!!!
  • CONSERVED!! What the heck is that? It means cleaned.
  • -Trends at.- Really bothers me.
  • PQ+++, one dealer in CW has every coin he lists with this, just the number of +'s varies. That, and 'Fresh' to the market.


    Ive seen it sit and linger for months, its as fresh as that Taco under my passenger seat in the car... image
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    "Numismatic terms you don't like hearing..."

    I'm sorry, that coin is on memo to another client.
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • OBVERSE..............these are just coins, why not front and back?
  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    COPY

    REPRODUCTION

    COIN VAULT
  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,513 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Original skin"

    Yep.

    If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.---Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America, 1801-1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,060 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Crusty.image

    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

  • "Genuine" from my pcgs submission.... image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,060 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never cared for the term "slidder". Just say AU58.

    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

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