NGC Journals

5 Years

So yesterday was our 5th anniversary - we are over 6 years into the relationship. The 5th anniversary is supposed to be “Wood” so my wife had considered getting me a challenge coin / coin holder make of wood with the idea of putting a coin that relates to us / our relationship in it, but I don’t really have a coin that fits that bill - the closest I had was that Standing Liberty half she got me as an anniversary present last year, and, since it is in a slab, it wouldn’t have worked for this

coinsandmedals in My 2021 numismatic journey

January 16, 2021

coinsandmedals's Journal

Calling all Irish coin collectors!

Looking over the NGC registry awards this year, I realized that I had overlooked a valuable platform to share my numismatic journey, the journals. This year I intend to change that by sharing my collecting journey throughout the year. Each month I will do my best to share either a new addition to the collection, grading results from NGC, or any tidbits of numismatic knowledge I acquire. With that said, this is my first journal entry since 2013! In this installment, I would like to share th

January 14, 2021

Why I like coins

How it started!

Many many moons ago...... ok..... let me try something different.... It was a dark and stormy night....... NAW.... that doesn't work...... OK..... this just out of Brooklyn..... nope..... that's not me..... My parents kind of started me into coin collecting.... yea I know LOL MY parents were the typical "Nuclear Family" raised parents. They didn't want me to be smothered and wanted to make me understand what money was all about. They did in a way that I didn't know I would be

ChrisInJesup in New

January 13, 2021

Time to begin the chase again

Well the 2020 registry awards are in the books, it was a good year for me with 6 best in category awards one better than last year. Hopefully I'll be able to make a couple of additions and hang on to those for next year, that task may be much more difficult depending on if the launce of the ANA registry brings in more heavy hitters from the PCGS registry. But maybe with a couple of adds here or there I can keep up on most of last years wins. Time to begin planning and chasing once again to fu

Coinbuf in Coinbufs journal

January 11, 2021

walnutto in 2020 Mayflower Anniversary Silver Medal

So much to say…

So, this will be long and perhaps rambling, but I have several things to touch on and I don't like making multiple posts too close together, so I just refuse to break this up. At a different time in my life this probably would have been posted yesterday but you don't always get time to sit down and write with 2 kids under 5 around in the time of CoVID, and I had cube organizers to build. I snuck in some posting on the boards mostly on my phone, but I wanted to take my time with this more.

Revenant in 2020 Awards

January 9, 2021

walnutto

I have returned to Collectors Society!

I have not been active in this society for a few years. I have been slowly selling off my collection. I have been battling a rare blood cancer. I may only have only a couple more chemo treatments left, fingers crossed. Prays are welcome! I have lots of time on my hands and been forced to retire middle of last year. I decided that once I am indeed in remission, full time retirement is not really for me. I have recently started to submit coins to NGC once again. I got my

January 7, 2021

2020 a personal and numismatic reflection

2020 what a ride, some ups and lots of downs. The year started off promising enough and then covid covered the world with a wet blanket like we have not seen before. A rough year of many especially those who lost loved ones to the pandemic, but a boon to some that were able to continue and even profit due to it. As I look back my life was not terribly affected by it overall from either a personal or numismatic perspective. As I do every December I looked back as what I did, what I bought, an

Coinbuf in Coinbufs journal

December 31, 2020

The first shunt revision

Well, when I was posting last time Sam was napping and we were getting ready to take him to Urgent Care hoping all the grabbing of his head and crankiness was an ear ache. It wasn't an ear ache. We had a shunt revision today and it looks like his shunt catheter, which we already knew had shifted, had nearly completely failed and it wasn't draining fluid and pressure effectively. He should hopefully be discharged tomorrow for a 1-2 week light recovery. We're told he "beat the odds"

December 30, 2020

Pieces of Italy

My wife and I are coming up on a pretty significant day for us and I've joked that it caps off a sequence of special Fridays. 12/25 - Christmas 1/1 - New Year's Day 1/8 - The NGC/PMG Awards announcement 1/15 - Our 5th Wedding Anniversary. One of the things my wife has talked very fondly of the entire time I've known her is her memories of the time they spent in Italy when she was young. I was finishing up putting her father's old coin bag in flips today (I'll have t

Revenant in European Pocket Change

December 28, 2020

Darryl A Gomez

Presidential Numismatic Artifacts (Part 2)

Presidential Numismatic Artifacts (aka PNAs) with ties to President John F. Kennedy are limited to a single issue (based on current research). However, the backstory of how original recipients were awarded the medal is interesting to say the least. The Jack Medal. The original recipient of this medal was in the US Embassy in Dublin, Ireland when he received this presentation piece. A letter of provenance was initiated with his widow when the purchase was made. The original recipient was e

DrDarryl in medals

December 19, 2020

Cellgazer's Journal

Is this "top pop" quarter mislabeled?

A 1976 business strike quarter from the Philadelphia mint is an extreme condition rarity in MS68. Modern Coin Enthusiasts: is this coin mislabled?

Cellgazer

December 13, 2020

The 2020 deadline has come and gone...

And I'm tired of writing, phew. Now I do not consider myself a natural when it comes to writing, I don't live on facebook or any other social media platform nor do I do much writing for my job so it just is not easy or natural for me the way it is for some. But I spent a great amount of time over the last month updating descriptions, writing new ones for both individual coins and for the sets themselves. I am quite sure that none of that will go down as great works of writing art but I'm v

Coinbuf

December 7, 2020

Worst of the Best?

In late December / early January I picked this Zimbabwe coin up as a kind of extension or part of my Zimbabwe note set. I added it to a set in the registry and it became a #1 ranked set with 1 coin and a total score of 16 points. We're after the awards cut-off now and its still #1 and I think it's going to get a "Best in Category" this year, with a total score of 16 points. This has me wondering what the lowest scoring set to ever win a "Best in Category" is / was.

Revenant in 2020 Awards

December 5, 2020

Is it or Isn't it????

crossovers

Has anyone had any luck crossing over ANACS coins to NGC leaving them in the slab or cracking them out? Just curious.

Eagles Nest

November 30, 2020

Six Mile Rick

The close end of 2020

A different time for most of us. As I lost my wife a year ago I stop in once in a while to check up on all of you collectors. Collecting for me left my mind when my wife passed. I have started a few new small businesses to keep my mind busy and seem to have no extra time to indulge in bidding for coins to add to my sets. Taking a little time to check ranks on some sets this morning. Good Luck to those that have worked so hard on their collection for the awards this year. Happ

Six Mile Rick

November 30, 2020

Starting work on PawPaw's coins

Some of the 2x2s I ordered came in today and Ben wanted to play with them not really understanding what they were so I agreed to work with him with them when Sam was napping. We sat down with the bag of coins from PawPaw and the staplers and tried to put some in the 2x2s. He lost interest quickly. He still struggles with the stapler. He's young. He doesn't get it fully. I'm easily more interested in these than he is, but maybe that'll change with time. He's four. I still need to remember th

November 28, 2020

"Ga" is for Goldfish, "P" is for "Poins"

Sam is obsessed with Goldfish, and shoving them in his mouth all day. He's started saying "Ga" for for Goldfish when he wants them. This means he's working on learning to say "gold," which is a lovely word if you like coins IMO. Meanwhile Ben has recently cropped up with "poins" and telling me he took my "poins." I had thought we'd gotten past this and he'd figured out "coins," but it has made a comeback recently. My wife doesn't want me correcting him too much because she thinks its adorab

November 26, 2020

I'm eligible!!

Ok down you animals I'm already spoken for, no what I'm referring to here is that this year for the first time ever I will have a registry set (multiple sets in fact) that are eligible for NGC major awards. My 1936 mint set has 10 of the fifteen slots filled and all the coins are NGC certified, yep not one PCGS coin in this set. And I expect that I will have high quality photos and descriptions for all of the current ten coins in the set by Dec 4th. I have set a goal for myself to have this

Coinbuf

November 25, 2020

Survived that weekend...

Well, we got the negative Covid test from my Nephew late Friday, but by then my wife and Sam were already at the ER because Sam gave us the scare of our lives when he stopped talking and we were worried he might be having seizures or some other issue and might have shunt failure. Two nights at the hospital later, short on a lot of sleep, we came back home on Sunday after a day of observation saying, "we'll watch for now, move up some of his other tests and appointments and see if we see any more

November 23, 2020

Got the award / plaque, now to the Post Office?

A couple of weeks ago now I received the award I'd referenced previously. In true 2020 fashion I got to receive a professional award in a Punisher tshirt and sweatpants. Because the organization wanted good pictures with the newsletter we had to re-do this in a suit and I got the whole family in on it. As the corresponding (and surviving) author, both plaques were sent to me and its my task to mail the other plaque(s) to the other author(s), or, in my case, to his family.