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You need to back away from the submission forms and have someone that can look at your coins go over them with you. (View Post)

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)