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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cdb1950, post: 52954, member: 1735&quot;]I thought for a long time before I could come up with any kind of bad time in a coin store, but there is something. In 1986, I had a couple months with not much to do so I asked a coin dealer buddy of mine if I could work in his store for about 20-30 hours a week for minimum wage (mostly paid in coins). Everything was pretty much as I expected it would be, except all the time I had to spend with coins that really weren&#039;t very interesting to me, identifying, grading, packaging, and such. Tons of coins, yet no fun. The only time in my collecting life that handling coins was boring.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>On the other end of the spectrum, a great time in a coin store, in 1981, I got divorced and my ex and I split the household, first one person choosing an item, then the other would choose something else, so on back and forth until the entire household was divided (we were too cheap to hire a lawyer), including &#039;my&#039; coin collection. One day in early 1984, I went into my coin dealer buddy&#039;s store and there was a big chunk of the other half of &#039;my&#039; coin collection. He told me that my ex had been in and sold all the coins she had. I was real happy to buy back a lot of my favorite pieces! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One of the pieces I bought back was a very nice 1971D Ike dollar for $2.50. I was so happy to get it back that I sent it off to ANACS to get it graded and photo-certified. It came back MS-65 (MS-66 hadn&#039;t been invented yet). Several years later, when the ANA published an updated gradiing guide using photos of coins instead of the line drawings to illustrate different coin grades, I was really surprised to see the photo of my 1971D Ike dollar being used as an example of a mint state Ike dollar! I sent the coin and the certificate to ANACS and they sent me a letter of authentication that this was the ANA Grading Guide plate coin and that they had used the picture from the photo certificate for this. I sent all this to PCGS and they slabbed the coin as the ANA Grading plate coin and graded it MS-66! It is still the only Ike dollar slabbed by PCGS as a plate coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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