Pawn Star Rick Harrison To Sign NGC Slabs

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by tommyc03, Jun 30, 2017.

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  1. SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom

    SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom Well-Known Member

    Be fun to see how he'll weasel his way out of buying them back for any decent price.

    Maybe they will offer a Chumlee "First Toke" limited run?

    Agreed though on serious note. I found the Baseball HOF curved silver dollars "signed by" Babe Ruth a bit more than offensive to his memory.

    What's next, a Steroid Heros series?

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  3. Santinidollar

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    I am totally underwhelmed.
     
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  4. SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom

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    Signed slabs often irritate me with their inappropriateness, I think, perhaps confusing and even diminishing the historic value of the coin itself. "Buy the coin not the slab" should be a bumper sticker, or at least a rally cry. Especially when the signatures are machine generated. That's encroaching on Disney's business.

    It's almost as bad as Stamps, but not quite. Mind you I love rock and roll but Elvis, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, as well known for their substance indulgences as music by some sort of make me smirk in that area. Yet? I buy 'em. Heh.

    At least we haven't let the federal deficit drive us to putting comic book characters on coins yet. Though we do have Wonder Woman STAMPS. Eh. Good lookin', too.

    Yours hypocritically,
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  5. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    I agree mostly with what Conder101 says.

    Sure, the show is staged, for obvious reasons, as it has to be.

    Unlike the rest of the utter trash on the so-called "History" Channel (Cajuns killing alligators, over and over and over and nothing but? Truckers? Logging? All this is history? Really?) at least Pawn Stars touches on (if only peripherally) the theme which that channel was devoted to before they jumped the shark* and climbed on the "rednecks sell shows" bandwagon and forgot their primary mission. Pawn Stars and American Pickers are the symptom of the sad decline of a TV network, but I'll confess I don't hate these as much as I do their other garbage. At least here they emulate PBS' Antiques Roadshow in a way, rather than some MTV series (speaking of networks that totally forgot their original mission).

    I reserve my utmost hatred for the Swamp People show, which I find not only mildly offensive but incredibly dull. My spouse watches it. I usually leave the room, but during one episode when I forgot to, the swamp people were motoring through a bayou in between gator killings and they passed an old brick fort, which they identified as "Spanish". It was a picturesque location and I was intrigued. Louisiana does have a Spanish past, though the fort looked 19th century. I did some web searches. The "Spanish" fort had indeed been built in the 19th century - by the United States government. So there was one tiny hint of actual history in that wretched "History" Channel show ... and they got it wrong.

    Would I buy a gimmicky slab with a label signed by Rick Whatsisface? Nope. Fortunately it's usually the modern stuff like Silver Eagles or generic stuff like common Morgan dollars that get this treatment, and seldom the sort of thing I like to collect.

    However, NGC Ancients did put some utterly meaningless (and downright misleading) gibberish on some ancient coin labels which said "Colosseum Hoard" (sic), as though the coins were from some hoard found at the Roman Colosseum. They were from disparate time periods and geographical areas far too widely spread and diverse to have been plausibly found in a real ancient hoard, and web searching produced little background information on what was apparently some kind of crass marketing ploy by NGC (and likely other parties - I think I catch a whiff of telemarketer stench, there).
     
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  6. TheMont

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    Rick signing NGC Slabs? Oh boy I gotta get me one of those! They're sure to go up in value in the near future!.............NOT!
     
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  7. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Watch what happens to their popularity the exact INSTANT they start giving extra points for them in registry sets. This is why I hate the whole registry set meme. They already have extra points for Early Releases, even when a coin sells out in a day. So stupid.
     
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  8. baseball21

    baseball21 Well-Known Member

    Even if they gave extra points I am not sure it would make much of a difference now. Their registry took a huge hit when they started banning PCGS coins that aren't grandfathered in. Most people that used theirs liked that they could use either, the majority of their registry users were very upset with the decision from the various online forum threads and quite a few stopped or went with PCGS instead
     
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  9. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    The reason these networks have declined is because cable TV audiences have declined. Why pay $140 a month and have 200 channels you'll never watch when you can get an Amazon Firestick, a subscription to HBO or STAR, Hulu, and Netflix all for $35 or $40 a month, and you can view original well made shows and documentaries on your Smart TV using these apps, as well as movies and any half decent TV show.

    Frankly, Netflix and other streaming providers now have better original shows and documentaries, bigger budgets, better producers and writers, and better actors than most of these old school traditional TV networks. The old networks can't compete and have all moved to cheap reality junk instead because it's what they can afford.
     
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  10. tommyc03

    tommyc03 Senior Member

    And don't forget ROKU. $50.00 for the unit and over 250 free channels available.
     
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  11. Brett_in_Sacto

    Brett_in_Sacto Well-Known Member

    I will sign slabs too, just ask me. I'm an expert in my own signature!
     
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  12. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Next time I get a chance, I'll take you up on that. Where will you be signing live, and what types of coins?
     
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  13. PennyGuy

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  14. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

    People are watching channels like History and A&E less because of the dreck on them, not the other way around, IMHO. That's what they get for trying to "out program" the three traditional networks.
     
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  15. baseball21

    baseball21 Well-Known Member

    The novelty of a lot of the shows has certainly worn off. They were fun when it was a break from their normal programming, now that it's basically that all day it got old fast
     
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