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Dip will turn the coin bright pink. Acetone will cloud and haze the coin. MS70 will turn it the wrong color too. The only way of properly taking junk off a cent is to first know what the junk is. Eve… (View Post)

Funny that John along with others agreed in the late 1990s that this was reduction lathe damage, not a genuine 8/7. Ask Ken Potter, James Wiles, Gary Wagnon, Billy Crawford...I think they are all in … (View Post)

Home Run Hall says: A die crack is not an error...it is actully a die state. Correction - "die state" refers to the age of a die at the time a particular coin was struck - has nothing to do… (View Post)

Actually they would be able to afford to hire another entire team of graders if the idea took off. If the CDN split into die states and most of the bigger coin guides did as well, PCGS would have a m… (View Post)

Now to answer the question asked in this thread... Die state, the age of the die, can have an impact on grade, because in order to have lofty superlative GEM grades the details on the coin have to be… (View Post)