Hi and thanks for the welcome I should say again I have purchased slabbed coins but here is the perfect example of why you should know a little something about what you are buying,only after grading around 125 coins the big three companies determined that the 1896,1900,and the 1902 micro coins are ALL FAKES the nice thing is they did refund the money to the people who submitted these coins.They had coins checked and some had more than .77 silver in them this just shows how good the copies are and the people making them are smart enough to do this in a
VAM because the average guy knows less about these types of coins I myself am not a
VAM person.I may have stated before my passion is the WLH of which the set is complete and has been for about 15 years I now spend my time and money upgrading the coins I would say as a whole the set grades AU50 as iam sure you know the eairly keys and semi keys get very expensive in grades above xf.I have purchased a usb microscope which takes great pictures and when I have them all I start to post some of the coins I have.I do have one more point about
TPG about 8 or 10 years ago when conservation started I had a fellow collector submit a coin for conservation and grading and when he got it back cracked it out and sent it back in his cousins name and the coin came back as improperly cleaned. Thanks Mitch
Posted 05/19/2011 6:31 pm
