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.
The longer the sob story the less likely the coin is to be genuine. By the time he wrote that, the coin could have been sent off to NGC or PCGS,...
They may not be able to find the right image, and they don't like to make changes without the coin in-hand.
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