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So we should sit back and enjoy the assault on our hobby by the Chinese because there's no hard data that it's a Bad Thing? Every dollar spent on these fakes is a dollar that is not spent on the hobb… (View Post)

It's not a picture of the coin in the slab. It's a composite of the raw coin and a simulated encapsulation of it. (View Post)

This is how i envision them Slabbing this. This Henry II penny is surrounded by a very thin gasket that i think is held between the regular (and prongless) gasket and inside of the front shell. It's … (View Post)

I was about to say JB Weld, but I imagine they'll use a smaller gasket than shown to awkwardly hold the fragment securely. There's also the possibility of whatever they used to hold a Henry II penny … (View Post)

If the coin was already cracked planchet error and additional internal planchet impurities that weren't visible, it's possible that such a treatment could help the crack grow, even to the point of br… (View Post)