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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;darrowcrowe, post: 1270470, member: 27209&quot;]My story started with a group of Buffalo Nickels purchased at auction about two years ago. My son wanted them and fronted him part of the money as the bag of nickels was like 16 pounds and total purchase was just at $1500. We went through all the nickels until we reached about 1926/1927, earliest were on top and had sold off several and some that he was able to upgrade out of the group he bought. Then one winter afternoon we got the rest of the bag out. Found some cools stuff. Then we got to the area were the 1937-1938 were. I spoted a 2X2 with a nice unc 38 so I told him to look thru the 37&#039;s. He ended up finding not 1, not 2 but three three leg coins. We were going to go to the Santa Clara coin show and bring the coins to NGC. One coin had a little bit of crude on the edge and we were going to have it go to NCS then graded if possiable. Well, NGC decided not to go to Santa Clara even though they were listed as a sponser. I had read in Numismatic News that for the grading fee ICG would also conserve at the same price would have been about $40 thru NGC so I called it was true if you request conservation and sent them in. They came back VF30 VF30 VF35 if anything they may have gone VF35-40 but still a great find. The one coin that had the crud on the edge looked great. Now a VF 30 is a VF 30 in any holder and to have the coin conserved was a plus. I then had 82 coins that were varities plus a few that I just wanted to get protected (3 Cherrio 2000 cents) that the kids got when they were young. So they graded them with varities on a special. They graded them just as I would have (I overgraded 5 they graded one higher) so they were pretty much right on. The coins are in nice safe holders. I can share at coin club meetings etc without having a heart attack and have three stocking stuffers for the &quot;kids&quot; this year. Most of the coins were Washington Quarters with &quot;B&quot; reverses so I may have a ICG mini Hoard! It was mostly for fun and why pay all that extra for a coin worth $40? They look good and are safe to stack, play with and hand around to show others what a Type &quot;B&quot; is. Thanks! Darrow[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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