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Also, a member at CU but don't like the format either.

 

Sweeties, we got loons here too. At least you can put them on ignore.

Unfortunately, PCGS limits you to ignoring just 5 (at a time - I periodically review my ignore list and find that they haven't posted for a year so I reclaim the slot).

And CCF doesn't have that feature at all. But I do so love the pot-stirring and popcorn emojis.

I pop on to NGC every four to five months to torque VKB. But other than Roger posting interesting tidbits - not time-sensitive - it's dead.

CAC because I have the inventory of samples running there.

 

You made me laugh. Torquing that guy can be a sport but it gets boring. There's another one who keeps changing his user name as if people won't recognize that it's the same nonsense. Some people apparently like the wild west thing over there, which is fine, just not for me.

 

Except for RB's posts which are information dense, there's not a lot of signal.

I find it interesting that most of the "whining and whinging about NGC posts" land at PCGS.

 

NGC did a house cleaning a few weeks ago. I believe Kurt and others are gone. I don't know. I just don't see them posting.
I really enjoy the stuff Roger post there. History that I may never see again.

 

Kurt and the other guy you mention are both gone. Much more user friendly now.

 

That's interesting. I just looked and you're right, something happened. I had 1000 posts on there but now they only go back to 2020. I had taken several years off from there so almost all of my posts were pre-2020. Maybe their search is just broken? Although I checked the Newbie forum and the oldest post also seems to be 2020. The thread that caused me to leave again due to vkurtb has had all of his comments in it removed, but they left a breadcrumb where I quoted one of the things he said. I'll have to go back and look more thoroughly. I also enjoy Roger's posts there, tons of historical stuff you don't find elsewhere.

 

He last posted on March 20th.

As for RB, he definitely reads or gets email about threads on PCGS board.

At PCGS there is a 1916D dime under review.

Somebody posted that the die rotation is a definitive characteristic of a genuine piece.

At NGC he posted the page from the Denver mint die book. And a link back to PCGS.

There were 4 die pairs used for striking on a single day. Odds that all 4 pairs were setup with the exact same rotation? Yeah.

But it's up to somebody else who reads both boards to drop some truth on the bloviators.

 

Seems like it went down around Feb 15. https://boards.ngccoin.com/topic/43...e-quintus-1-3-7-etc-etc-using-today/#comments
Maybe I'll start lurking over there again if those two are gone. They really thought it was their private playground to say whatever they wanted and seemed to enjoy driving people away (like me). RWB clearly still follows CU which takes intestinal fortitude given his treatment there. Anyway, this is the place for me now. Other forums it's kinda fun to hear about the drama. There's one guy who I think has now been banned from every coin forum there is. He had 20k+ posts over on CCF but they finally had enough of it I guess (that was several years ago now).

 

This is the only forum I haunt habitually. I really regretted it when some ancient coin people got upset here and stormed off and one started Numis Forum. I became a member there, but enjoy here much more.

 

BTW the "single day" was my misreading the image. The four die pairs were RECEIVED on a single day, and were retired from use on three days at the end of December after striking between 129k and about 27k coins.

 

What's also interesting about that Denver mint record is that Denver also had 5 die pairs of the "old design" - Barbers - but never coined any. I wonder if those dies still exist, but they were probably cancelled anyway. Denver also skipped 1913 and 1915.

I rarely go to CU but I looked this morning, vkurtb went back over there and immediately started doing what he does best. Last post over a month ago though.

 

Roger is a regular on VAMWorld. He finds a few gems in the archives for us now and then. Back in December he kick-started a flurry of activity surrounding a rather glorious 6-page letter Barber sent to his boss totally ripping on the New Orleans mint for abusing dies.

 

It hasn't been the same here since that exodus. I used to post in the world coins forum and get 20-30 comments. Now you're lucky to get any, which makes you want to stop posting.

 

Do you have a link to that discussion? I'm curious if it's a letter I've already seen or not.

 

I know I'd like to see it

 

Here are the ones where I mostly read, and rarely post:

coincommunity.com
worldofcoins.eu
NGC
Collectors Universe

 

This is one letter to N.O. I had saved. https://archive.org/details/rg104entry229box107/page/n247/mode/2up. Some subtle digs in there. There was a letter sent to SF only 6 days later, responding to similar complaints about die life. https://archive.org/details/rg104entry229box107/page/n429/mode/2up. What's interesting is that Barber made changes to the master hubs for all of his denominations - nickel, dime, quarter and half - in 1900 and 1901, and I've never found anything to indicate why.