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I just got an email from Stack's Bowers because they noticed that the slab was cracked on something I bought from them at auction, and they offered to fix it rather than sending it to me cracked… (View Post)

The marks you ask about are completely typical. If that doesn't straight grade, there's some other reason. That said, the cost of grading is about the same as the value of the coin. It'… (View Post)

I'm pretty sure we did. He didn't hear it. He still doesn't hear it. But we told him. Let's see how many misconceptions I can spot, for the benefit of anyone else coming across th… (View Post)

There's something about the XRF process that makes tungsten (and selenium) a false reading for gold. I saw similar results in my writeup at https://www.so-calleddollars.com/xrf_results.html (View Post)

That's a particularly nice example! You can see that the lettering on the reverse must have been hand-punched, considering that each letter is tilted differently. You can also very clearly see t… (View Post)