The show I went to today was surprisingly well attended. Lots of dealers from a four state radius from what I was able to see. Lots of dealers and lots of attendees…. Now usually I go on a buying spree at these things but I was more in selling mode today. I did buy one….. Well, really two coins but the second coin I had already bought. My buddy just brought it to the show for me to pick up. Now I like the walker series but like Morgans, I am kind of over them. But it was a walker that caught my eye today. I don’t know why but the first two years where the mintmark was on the obverse intrigue me. So this was my splurge buy today. This is the coin that I had previously ordered. No morbid curiosity or anything. I just appreciate coins with a story and I am sure that this story is as fresh in everybody’s minds as it was 24 years ago.
I did seed the boy with some spending cash. We did our first quick run around the bourse which is my usual method before I dial into a few dealers.. After we went around the floor he asked me to go look at a table so we went. There was a football card graded in the man’s case. The boy is big time into football cards. We gave forty dollars for this graded card that I know nothing about and he showed me on his little football card Ap where that particular card was a $500.00 card. Now, I know nothing about these things and have no clue if his sources are valid or not. But he was tickled to death with his purchase…. Wife has to drive out of town tomorrow for work so it was a one day deal for us.
That Walker is a beautiful coin Randy! It must have cost a small fortune. You know that should be in my collection. Lol
Ha! I grabbed some of my PCGS slabs, and by golly you're right. All these years and I never noticed they put the grade in that string of numbers. Never too old to learn, huh?
Not sure where or how I learned that. The digits before the dot is the PCGS #, in this case 6567, which takes you here https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1916-d-50c/6567/64. Perhaps also useful, these numbers are also embedded in the barcode on the label. You can download a free barcode/QR code reader and use that to scan slab images on ebay for example to make sure the barcode info matches everything on the label. Many counterfeit slabs don't bother to put the right barcode on them.
Yes phone app, mine is called QR Reader and I think it popped up first in the App Store, been years since I installed it, free.
If you have a modern iphone, you don't need an app anymore. The camera automatically picks up QR codes and you just click on the link that pops up and it takes you to the site.
That works with QR codes but not barcodes as far as I know. Older slabs don't have QR codes (some still don't).
