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When did the practice of using "Lacquer" to protect coins/medals fall out of favor??
I have seen medals dating from the mid-1930's which had been lacquered but nothing after that. What is the experience from the older collectors/dealers or guys a little deeper in the trenches than me?? Thanks in advance. Al H. -
Re: Has anyone here ever patented anything coin related ?
SORRY FRETCHER but YOU are wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 History of the United States Patent Office The Patent Office Pony A History of the Early Patent Office Chapter 2 -- Invention Comes to British Colonial America [Pg 11] CHAPTER TWO INVENTION COMES TO BRITISH COLONIAL AMERICA Joseph Jenks Sr., age 41, iron founder, of… -
Why Do People Keep Falling for this? What Happened to Due Diligence by Auction houses? Laziness?
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12056961/authenticity-auctioned-michael-jordan-game-worn-shoes-called-questioned Seems like auction houses these days often overlook the obvious. Does anyone practice due diligence anymore? Is it pure laziness? Or subversive in the name or profit? You decide... -
THE 1966 ANA PNG ARBITRATION HEARING AND ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY
reprinted from "The Numismatist" 1966 Karl Moulton has an answer for why the Roosevelt University numismatic course stopped, and it has to do with another important numismatic event in Chicago - the famous Professional Numismatists Guild Arbitration Hearing regarding the controversial "Franklin Hoard" coins. Karl forwarded… -
Re: How do you handle hagglers at shows?
Well, that depends. I learned something from that dealer when talking to him about his business. He sold world coins exclusively, no shop- everything through his website and collector contacts. There was another dealer nearby with a shop who dealt in US coins only. Occasionally, the US guy would call him up and tell him he… -
Re: $3 Gold
When a counterfeiter creates a false die, he uses a genuine coin as a model to create a transfer die. Any markers on the genuine model coin will automatically be transferred to the false die used to produce the counterfeit coins. -
Re: The exciting 1861 Paquet Reverse Twenty Dollar Liberties Again in the News
Zoins: Why the Philadelphia pieces are so pristine and show no evidence of production problems encountered? ... Why there are so few Philadelphia pieces? It may be true that the "production problems" slowed down the process rather than adversely affecting each coin struck. While it may have been predicted that dies would… -
Re: 1861-S Paquet in the Saddle Ridge Hoard? UPDATE - Status of 1.2 million dollar coin
"My real question about this is who could basically afford to bury the modern-day equivalent of 1/2 a million bucks and not ever have to come back for it, nor would their descendants/inheritors notice it missing? That's quite a lot of dough" Well here is one answer that follows from combining two of the clues (the… -
Re: For you error collectors : 1968-S & S 1c Totally Separated New RPM!!!
Interesting to know you're around, Sean. I didn't know who you were or what your position was. Something I find to be a bit confusing is that the information gathered from people's variety submissions seems to fall into a dark hole never to be seen in print....unless you happen to be a card carrying CONECA or NCADD member… -
Re: Heather, please remove me from this forum
By stating that the post was demonstrably false, you’re, in effect, saying that PCGS does like to have their dirty laundry aired in public. I disagree.
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