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NGC Journals

C'MON NOW!

THANKS TO ALL !

So many friends, so little time. Hello all! I am overwhelmed by everyone's response. Friend and foe, alike. I have to add a few answers to everyone that asked for certain coins, or sets. If my collection sells before the Registry Awards, I will release everything for you to compete. I do not wish to break up this collection. The quicker I liquidate, the quicker I can get other plans rolling. To my friends out of the US, I wish I could sell to you, but customs would flag the collection
namvette68

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TRP-migration's Journal

Happy Thanksgiving

I wish everyone a GREAT day! Hello Community, Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! May you all have great Family times and Fantastic food! There are so many things to be thankful for this year that I can't list them all. First and foremost are my doctors. Because of them I am still alive to be able to enjoy and celebrate another Holiday season. As my Cancer could creep up at anytime and take over, I have figured out to enjoy life. I may only have a few more left, so they all are, and will
TRP-migration

TRP-migration

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Dennis B-migration's Journal

Happy Thanksgiving to One and All

Time to write Santa a letter about COINS! I love this time of the year! With the celebration of Thanksgiving, my thoughts always turn to my letter to Santa. Yes, I still believe in Santa! I?m sure this year like last year I will find some new collecting surprises under the tree. I particularly love finding rolls of coins in my stocking. My kids have me figured out as well and I am certain they will also be wrapping rolls of pennies for me so I spend Christmas afternoon scouring through them af
Dennis B-migration

Dennis B-migration

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C'MON NOW!

I'M OUTTA HERE !

I have held on too long. Hello everyone, Hopefully 2010 will be my last year of competing in the Registry. I have had fun, and met a lot of nice friends. My sets are as good as I am going to make them. It is time to liquidate and persue other venues. I will hold one Sac proof set, a Prezzie proof, and my Proof Silver Eagles. My MS Eagle set, and the New Zealand Pennies will stay also. Everything else will go.....hopefully. It's been a blast, and a challenge, to get as far as I have. A ne
namvette68

namvette68

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walnutto

Registry Awards are nearing.

Slow and Steady Wins the Race! I have had many blessings finding the Business Strikes for the Presidential Dollars set. It took me awhile to be patient and not grab the first ones offered on Ebay and over pay for them. You may not find yourself on the top of your registry set when the awards are given out in a few days but in the end, if you are patient enough, the price will fall once everyone else grabs theirs early on but you have saved some money and have no remorse. Coins with the same
walnutto

walnutto

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moondoggy's Journal

The Ike's Have It

Another finished set Holiday Greetings; I filled the last slot of my Ike Collection with this Ike the other day to finish it. It's not a large collection but it is now complete and now moving on. Like most of you, my purchasing will probably come to a halt with the holidays as I reroute the funds to other forks in the road. The nice thing is that those forks somehow always lead back to here. It is like having a GPS unit. I may stray away but I always find myself back here.
moondoggy

moondoggy

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W.K.F.'s Journal

WHAT ONCE "TURNED ME ON"...

Now the "flash" has worn off... Greetings Collectors, I have been deep in study and thought for several weeks now. As I have been tweaking my various sets and re-doing a photo and/or a description here or there, I have been thinking heavily about how long it has been since I bought a "real slabbed coin" of any significance. I actually became quite sad at the realization that the many hundreds of dollars I have spent in the last three months has netted me practically nothing when it comes to
W.K.F.

W.K.F.

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Bammer's Journal

A Wonderful Day In The Neighborhood

...if you're making a raw set of wheaties. (No, not the cereal!) Hi all, First I must explain that my weekend is Sunday and Monday. So usually, I use Sundays to relax, and to relax I either read or work on my coins. (Except in the summer, when our local minor league baseball team is playing at home, then ball games are a part of my Sundays too.) Mondays are used for the normal errands of life, you all know what these are; wash the clothes, do your banking business, mail packages to NGC, etc.
Iowa Silver Baron Bammer

Iowa Silver Baron Bammer

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Looking Back on MY 70 Years of Coin Collecting

Could I do anything worse than bite the hand that feeds me????

Some people are just never happy I should be one of the last persons to complain about NGC?s registry set program in that in 2009 I was awarded the best overall Signature Set. But simply I have a problem in that my perception is that the ?custom (former signature) sets? appear to be perceived as second class sets. Those creating custom sets may be just as competitive as those that create competitive sets but because some collectors become creative about defining what goes into their sets and
RAM-VT

RAM-VT

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lanebrad's Journal

Holiday are almost here

Last purchase of the year maybe!!!! Hello collectors I Recieved 2 coins in the mail, most likely the last two of the year. Recieved my 2010 Proof Eagle which looks great, and my 2011 B.U. Silver $ 5 Mapleleaf. I still think the Canadian Coin is one of the most bueatiful coins made in the modern era .I been practicing taking picture of my coins, I think tho I need a new camera but of course I probable dont take the time need to do this right. Well it something I will work on next ye
lanebrad

lanebrad

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Electric Peak's Journal

Rusty Dies, Pretty Penny

I finally took pictures of a bunch of recent acquisitions. I've been behind with posting photos of recent registry additions. Saturday night I got the camera out and got a few dozen done. Only the freebie state quarters from paid membership a few years back and several modern proof commemoratives remain without mug shots. The attached photo is the obverse of one of my acquisitions from the recent Baltimore show. I obtained an 1853 No Arrows half dime, and this 1828 N-6 large cent. During t
Electric Peak

Electric Peak

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W.K.F.'s Journal

LOTS OF INTERESTING COIN NEWS

It never ceases to amaze me the way the "heart of this hobby" continues to beat... Greetings Collectors, I seem to have been stuck at just shy of 200,000 points for what seems like eons. I have been looking for pieces to add to my various sets and continue to watch all of my favorite sellers and auction venues but nothing has jumped out at me. I see prices for "ALL" quality pieces continuing to rise, and records seem to be forever breaking "old ones". For what I need, & with the grades I
W.K.F.

W.K.F.

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Dennis B-migration's Journal

Collecting Milestones

Victories along the way though the be small Here it is, yet another quiet weekend morning with my coffee and my coins. With the holidays coming down the tracks like a runaway locomotive, I am relishing this time in the sanctuary of my quiet and my coins. The last few weeks have been thin for acquisitions. To be honest, as hectic as things have been, I have not had the time to devote to finding many additions to my collection. My efforts in the last few weeks have netted me only a 2006S PF69UC
Dennis B-migration

Dennis B-migration

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Charles Stevens's Journal

The Road Less Traveled.

THIS ENTRY DESCRIBES HOW I MADE THE CHOICE TO COLLECT FOREIGN COINS MINTED IN THE US. I don't really know when I started collecting coins or how long I have been collecting for that matter. I belive it has been at least 15 years or so. I became interested while viewing various different coins being sold on TV. I was curious as to the grading terms that were being used by the TV host. I bought a book and was hooked. I put together various 20th Century sets in albums, I bought a great number of
Charles Stevens

Charles Stevens

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CoinsbyGary

Mintage vs. Survivability

The difference between a coins mintage and the number that have survived through the years can be immense. Greetings everyone, when I was young collector, I relied heavily on mintage figures to determine whether a coin had the potential to rise in value. I thought that lower mintages correlated to a faster rise in value. Now years later, I have learned there are many more factors that combined with mintage figures contribute to a coin?s potential to increase in value. The first thing to consid
coinsbygary

coinsbygary

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Electric Peak's Journal

Testing My Wife's Numismatic Eye

Could she get a job at NGC or PCGS? After every purchase, I show off the new acquisition(s) to my wife. She typically feigns interest, and makes comments about my coins being "rubbed-off" and "rusty". Now I can understand a critical EAC eye calling a couple of my low MS certified coins AU, but "rubbed-off" is a little harsh. As for "rusty", I hasten to point out that in the early years of the U.S. Mint, sometimes rusty dies were used, producing coins with tiny lumps. My new 1828 N-6 cent is su
Electric Peak

Electric Peak

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Clay's Journal

WALKERS

Newest addition Walker are still one of the Coins I dearly like and will continue to Collection. Some of the dates are not very affordable in certain grades, like MS-67, I've tried to upgrade but it is slow. I'm still not used to hundreds of dollars for one coin let a lone Thousands! This is my lastest a 1917! To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
Clay

Clay

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Robertsson's IceCoinage

Iceland's 1940 Proof Coinage

Re: Heart aches of coin collecting Well my friends here at the collectors society I have finally found the 1940 proof set from Iceland that I was talking about last April when I wrote a journal entry about NGC grading a complete set of 1940 proof coins from Iceland and how I lost the bid on a seemlier set that was being auctioned off in Australia in July of 09 that sold for $2600.00 AUD and only to see that very same set being sold by Strand Coins (Who won the auction) in Australia for 15,000.
Iceman

Iceman

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Thane1's Journal

Inspirational moment amongst our coinage's celebration of Dead White Men

During my lunch break today, I wandered into the downtown branch of the public library, where a display about John Adams' book collection was housed. Hang with me, this is light on numismatism and heavier on why Dead White Men are on our coins. For our everyday money, mythologies abound. Let's ask our MOTS ("man on the street") who fails the Find-Your-Hometown-on-a-Map Test about the following people: ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1c, $5): Civil War, freed the slaves THOMAS JEFFERSON (5c, $2): ... u
Thane1

Thane1

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North Country Collectibles L's Journal

What a profound Dis-appointment ...........

When you find a coin has been damaged all along and you had absolutely no idea .... I have spent a good part of the last few hours today removing some coins from what I'll call Fourth Party Grader's Slabs ...those companies that did not do such a good job consistantly anyways...to get them ready for eventual NGC certification . I was almost devastated to discover an 1864 2 Cent Piece graded MS-64 Brown had significant damage that COULD NOT BE SEEN through the slab for some reason ....som
Mikey101's Journal

While i was in Search of my 1925 Mint Sets

Ancient Rome.. I received my Collector Society packet in the mail last week and ran across NGC Ancients - I was quite amazed by this and Acquired/not yet arrived to me- The Below Coin. Any thoughts on collecting this old coinage opposed to Current US or World Coinage? HAVE A LOOK! To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
Mikey101

Mikey101

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W.K.F.'s Journal

WOULD YOU EVER DO THIS??

I can't fathom a reason... Greetings Collectors, I had to email my buddy again just to get it "one more time" right from the "horses mouth". I asked him did he really bust up 100 "Special Mint Sets" to make up these five rolls? He said again, "He did". I would never call someone a liar pertaining to something like this but, for the life of me, I just can't see "destroying" that many sets to obtain the Kennedy halves just to put them into rolls. I've seen hundreds of these 40% silver halves j
W.K.F.

W.K.F.

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Mr. Thompson's Journal

Climbing out of the Abyss

Well now my friends, well now (what movie as that from?) Red Dawn It is with great pleasure that I can announce effective Monday the 22nd that the economic recovery has finally hit my household. After 2 and 1/2 years of being way under-employed, thankfully employed but unable to keep my entire stash of silver (about 20 pounds) which I had to sell while Silver was at $13, I am returning to the land of the living...collector that is. Believe me, I will be taking it slow at first, I have a ton
Mr. Thompson

Mr. Thompson

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