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Only "nut-jobs" B) o:) ;) grade coins with a microscope. You see too much! Most experienced collectors with excellent eyesight need less than 10X to see all you need to see to grade a coin.… (View Post)

That is a beautiful coin: Gem, Red Uncirculated; fingerprint reverse. I agree with you. I am in the minority but I do not like to grade a coin above MS-64 Red with any trace of carbon. That was old g… (View Post)

Thanks Bill!!! That's a start. I'll research this: "The first place I remember reading about it was in Brown & Dunn, third edition, I think. It was in the 1960s. There they suggested that th… (View Post)

I'm more gabby than Mark. The past history of a coin means nothing! "Uncirculated" (not in circulation) is a bad term. Coins are tough and many remain in MS condition although serving their… (View Post)

He offset the old time major NY dealer who could not be bothered to show me a J-228 in his case because I was just a twenty-something collector. Sometimes people don't realize that a large act of rud… (View Post)