This post is partly a vent and mostly a request for help in understanding. I just got back a submission from one of the two top TPGs and this...
At my Local Coin Club last night and a fellow member, a high-end US Type Set collector, pulled out this beauty. It's a CACG MS-66+ and just...
OK, this is probably a nit and if so I'm sure I'll be called out on it. But I find this irritating and in the great American tradition of sharing...
That annoyingly strong corrugated cardboard shipping packaging that is so difficult to open - what's it called? You know, the one that slabs are...
A few years ago I assembled the 7-coin set of Walking Liberty Half Dollar proof coins. The average grade of the set is 65.13. Now, I am going to...
Do you think there is a best time for auctioning coins at GC, Heritage and Stacks? Best in the sense of achieving most interest and hopefully...
As part of my estate planning efforts, I am transitioning all raw coins in my collections into slabbed coins by either having them graded or...
A new coin show was held last week in Tampa, FL. I think it is called the Great American Coin Show or some such. I didn't attend even though I...
This is the last of the FUN Show acquisitions. When I was purging my type set of lower grade slabbed coins and raw coins, the Barber Dime in PCGS...
Today, I am taking photos, annotating, and otherwise processing the coins I acquired at the recent FUN Show in Orlando, FL. Overall, a pretty...
I picked up two early coppers at the FUN Show: This Nova and a Connecticut Draped Bust Left in AU-58. The Connecticut was from Syd Martin's...
Two upgrades for my Capped Bust Half Dime Die Marriage Set. The 1835 LM-4 upgrades from a XF-40. The 1835 LM-6 upgrades from a VF-30. [ATTACH]...
I posted the results of NGC grading for two LS quarters I had previously posted for "Pre-Guess the Grade". That submission included two other raw...
I am about to send this quarter off to NGC for grading. Anyone care to "pre-guess" the grade? Poll will close in 24 hours. I will post NGC...
I am about to send this quarter and another I'll post in a separate thread to NGC for grading. Anyone care to "pre-guess the grade"? Poll will...
I am considering submitting this raw 1858 half to PCGS for grading. Do you think it would straight grade or get a details? Please vote in the...
This is quite a bit of an esoteric question for the Capped Bust Half Dollar collectors out there. I asked it of a friend that is a rabid Bust...
I may have posted this hack before but I had a graphic example today while photographing a new coin. This 1833 Capped Bust Half Dime (PCGS AU-50,...
Twice in the last few weeks, while awaiting a USPS coin delivery, I received the following text message. I assumed it was a phishing expedition...
This is really a two-part question regarding the Capped Bust coinage; half dimes, dimes, quarters and half dollars. The first one asks how people...
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