"All told my expense for all of the above after negotiation was $2700." :O
This whole process could have been done for less than half that.... plenty of people here who are more than qualified to perform most of these services
Perhaps but I did not want to end up with a bunch of ruined scratched up coins cleaned by someone I did not know. Tim was expensive but I knew that was going to be the case upfront. Sometimes you pay for peace of mind.
Best not to clean a coin, leave them (peeled) as is and adding the peeled hologram (public - private key shows authenticity), would have saved some 'cleaning' fee as well.
But what's done is done, I guess...
Still waiting for a reply.