I mean in theory the old Blue Sheet was sight-unseen and the Grey Sheet was sight-seen dealer buy prices. The spread covered some portion of the...
Damaged - heavily damaged 10c Might have spent some time under a lawn mower or in a food disposal. There must be 100 other ways to ruin your roosie.
He's still around on the NGC board - the only place that will have him. Still as curmudgeonly as ever and twice as fun to bait.
Again, scale. 30k is a lot to Kanga, you, me. But GC brought coins worth $40m for their exhibits the last three years.
It's a negotiation - ask for what you believe is fair based on the loss. The worst they can say is no, please return the lot.
You can - actually it's required - show the holder. You are supposed to mask out any numeric grade. Words [ATTACH] like Uncirculated or Extra Fine...
CAC certainly seems to talk about the stickers one way and CAC+collectors ACT the other way...
Um... Etsy has policies? News to me.
Oh yay - I know you were grumpy about not being able to order them when they came out!!!!!
Words to live by!
@Silverpop That's just not generally true. The USPS handles 23.8 million packages a day. https://facts.usps.com/one-day/ only a tiny tiny...
Correct. But some of them have value among the target population. For example, MOST IHC collectors will take Rick's word as gospel regardless of...
Also, remember while $30k might be large to you, it's small to the big auction houses. Although for THIS kind of money, you can fly on a private...
Call the auction house and ask for their recommendation. If your package is inside their norms (and I would be very careful about being the...
James is very reputable and well-known. He's also a heck of a nice person to chat with. JMS coins. He's also part of the Ike Group (DIVA is like...
Of course not ... they handle billions of packages a year and only a tiny fraction have problems. But the bad guys target high value packages....
I'm sure they get notices of stolen coins from NCIC and flag them in the database.
NCIC http://numismaticcrimes.org/ Also send along the police report to NGC or PCGS or ... and they'll flag it in the database should say a dealer...
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No. Think about it - a cent is 19.05mm and a dime is 17.91... the cent planchet wouldn't even fit in the dime's striking chamber.
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