Been happening to me a lot lately. I’ll do a final bid a few hours before closing. And my bid is a bit higher than recent sales of the same coin...
Designs for U.S. circulating coins have gone through cycles of beauty and beast. I think late 19th century was the worst. Teddy Roosevelt said...
You're right! Prices for some older British crowns have doubled or tripled in price in the last few years. Examples: 1887 Victoria in MS64,...
Anybody read Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle? One of the best off-earth-contact-with-aliens scifi novels. The aliens were named Moties...
Sorry to hear about your coin. I had similar problems with my old Lincoln cent collection due to Whitman folders. Had to take to most of them...
I think you're right. I've had something similar happen many times with the PCGS registry. I enter the cert. no. of a coin and get told it's in...
This doesn’t always work and sometimes isn’t desirable. The reason is that if orders are shipped to NGC together, it’s often because they are...
Each order is a separate submission, each with its own handling fee and return postage charged even if they arrived at NGC in the same box. I...
NGC also collects more for return shipping if a given number of coins is split into multiple orders. For a group of ten coins worth no more than...
Really good chance these guys will be caught: 1. Based on weight of loot, had to be multiple thieves involved. At least one will run his mouth...
Apparently the truck on its way from the US Mint to Florida spent the night in a Walmart parking lot when the thieves hit it. See the link. Cal...
Jack, Thanks for your valuable work. This fake supposedly has a NFC chip. Would be interesting to try to read it. Do you know if anyone has...
I read the whole thing and learned more than I needed about FDR’s monetary policy in the early 1930s. Pretty well written and very well...
Stack away! I do it for convenience when coins are at home. Most of them spend most of their time in a safe deposit box. Wish NGC and PCGS...
If you want to see it in a different light, look below. Cal [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Great set! Great job! Completing a set that a collector has been working on for a long time is one of the most satisfying moments possible in...
Not only is it a grade, it gets more points in the registry than the same number without a plus. Cal
If you send a coin to cross at the same grade and the graders feel it deserves a higher grade, they'll do it. I once sent a NGC-graded MS64...
Before they changed their policy to grade never decreasing and if the grade went down, they would pay you the market value difference between the...
I was happy to see that if a coin is reported as stolen to NGC that they tag the cert. no. And anyone who tries to verify the cert. no. gets the...
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