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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2991976, member: 10461&quot;]There are still four more packages from Friday to open, all almost certainly coins.&nbsp; (No more junk mail.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Wait!&nbsp; Now <i>Saturday&#039;s</i> mail is here!&nbsp; And there&#039;s one more!</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">(Plus another piece of junk mail.&nbsp; A credit card offer this time.&nbsp; Capital One won&#039;t stop trying, even though I&#039;ve ignored them for years.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>So five more likely-coin packages.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]738416[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there&#039;s <i>this</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]738424[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s on top of a showcase in [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER]&#039;s shop in western North Carolina.&nbsp; That newly-arrived package is a submission just back from NGC, which contains three coins from my Eclectic Box.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you can see some <i>submission results,</i> too, if you want.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are the three coins of mine that are inside that box in NC:</p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b><font size="5"><a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/yPHqe15bNGgkcHUA7qbT" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/yPHqe15bNGgkcHUA7qbT" rel="nofollow">Turkey (Seljuks of Rûm): silver dirham of Kaykhusraw II; lion &amp; sun, AH 638 (1240-1241)</a></font></b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b><font size="5"><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/Njp4ZWzeSa29wCCgUAM7_Seljuq-dirham.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">(At NGC for grading as of 2/9/2018)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/YtZrWveFNUHBx44tVqM3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/YtZrWveFNUHBx44tVqM3" rel="nofollow">Netherlands (Gelderland): &quot;St. John&quot; goldgulden (florin) of Arnold van Egmond, ca. 1423-1472</a></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/netherlands-gelderland-st-john-type-goldgulden-florin-of-arnold-van-egmond-ca-1423-1472.5049/full?d=1482837861" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">(At NGC for grading as of 2/9/2018; ex-<a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/32089335" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/32089335" rel="nofollow">PCGS Genuine; XF details, &quot;filed rims&quot;</a>)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b><a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/VqZoYtrYxobuIHC13WMi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/VqZoYtrYxobuIHC13WMi" rel="nofollow"><font size="5">Belgium (Brabant): gold Carolus d’or (florin) of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ca. 1521-1545</font></a></b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b><font size="6"><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/8pUN8e5FTsyWh0pLsG4y_Brabant-florin-1500s-045242-coin-V2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">(At NGC for grading as of 2/9/2018; ex-<a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/85188589" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/85188589" rel="nofollow">PCGS Genuine; VF details, &quot;mount removed&quot;</a>)</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>How do you suppose they did?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll say this much- the submission results were a surprise.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good ... or bad?</p><p><br /></p><p>I really didn&#039;t intend to drag this out all day, particularly as I should be sleeping, considering I worked the 11 PM to 7 AM graveyard shift last night.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m physically all out of steam for now, so I&#039;ll leave the last five packages and the NGC submission results for later, if anybody&#039;s even reading anymore.&nbsp; I might&#039;ve lost my audience somewhere back around the Rice-a-Roni and cat pictures, who knows?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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