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NGC Journals

ibab's Journal

A pricing lesson learned

always double check Like most other people I've been known to buy things on impulse. Sure enough last time I was out shopping, I found a nice walking liberty half. I bought it, but likely should have just held onto the money. I checked what they have been selling for at auctions lately and overpaid by about 25%. Sure I got to pick it but I'm not sure that it is that much nicer than the ones that could have been had site unseen. For a bit more than I paid, I could have ordered one in 66 in
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W.K.F.'s Journal

PREDICTION ON GOLD & SILVER

All "Bets" are off... Greetings Collectors & Investors, I had thought, and predicted that the price of the metals would fall after the upcoming tsunami on Tuesday Nov. 2nd. After seeing what China has done with their interest rates and now most are predicting that the Fed will crank up the printing presses when they meet next week, this spells only one thing. INFLATION, INFLATION & MORE INFLATION. This will send the metals into the stratosphere. Maybe not presently, because of an alm
W.K.F.

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North Country Collectibles L's Journal

One Last Extremely Tough NEW ZEALAND 3 Pence Beauty !!

this coin is just too nice to pass up sharing ..... First ....I DO hope the picture that I am adding to this journal comes thru ok and the coin image appears large enough to make out the date and detail . This beautiful 1942 New Zealand 3 Pence , One Dot Variety , is also headed to NGC this coming week . The coin appears to me to be in about AU-55 ( that's my personal bet anyways ) . Of the mintage of around 3.12 million there were only about 250 thousand of these very small silver coins rel
ibab's Journal

Faster Updates

Faster site While this isn't exactly collecting related, I logged in today to add some recent walkers to the set, and wow the site moves so much faster. I'm not sure what they changed over there, but WOW. It was impressive enough that I felt the need to create my first journal entry. To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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CaptBrian's Journal

Odd coins in the registry, and lost slots

Friends from Australia, trying to help but... HI Had one of our associates ask me to relieve myself of one of the foreign slots held by my coins, but I do have the coin and NGC has not yet made a slot for them. Sorry, I do want mine in the registry and was told nicely and understandably, "gotta wait" til prior request keyed in. Hope all you Aussies understand, workin' on it here. Capt Brian To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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moondoggy's Journal

One more to add

1996 Silver Finally have gotten around to replacing my 1996 PF69UC with a PF70UC. Have been busy going off in other directions for awhile so it was nice to get back to my Kennedy's at least for 1 coin. moondoggy To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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North Country Collectibles L's Journal

First Addition to a brand New Registry Set

Organizing my collection during my last vacation revealed some Certified Treasures ready to be placed in the Registry ..... Last week while I was on vacation I happened upon a large quanity of coins ( see previous post ) that I had picked up over the preceding two years and just packed away with not a single after thought ....I pulled this beauty out of a box where it had sat for many months untouched until just today . It was purchased long before I joined NGC's Collector Society ....so I ne
Amarillo1

To Anthony Silari jr

Your massage you sent me will not let me answer it I hope you see this, and I hopr this answer questtion, I looked the price's for the silver eagle's. In mint state, MS-69, $34.80 and in MS-70 $131.00, and if is a west point (w), in ME-69 $64.80, and in MS-70 $197.00. You can fine these price's at NGC RESEARCH and drop down to the price guire, I hope this help you out and answer your question. Don To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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Phil Nunemacher's Journal

An Opportunity

My first try at photography. This week there was some confusion about who owned a particular NGC coin. I don't want to get into that, but since I had to pull the coin out of my lock box I decided that now was the time to try something. Specifically, try and photograph a coin. This is the image that I came up with as my best effort to date. Actually it is the fourteenth effort, but who's counting. Now I'm off to read the photography thread. Lighting is driving me nuts. Phil P.S. That
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W.K.F.'s Journal

WHAT A WEEK FOR "SILVER"...

For those of you who care, this move is huge....& will continue. Greetings Collectors, Each time I post a journal I always say to myself, this one really needs to be shorter. I have never really forgotten a fellow collector say to me via a message, "I've quit reading your journals because they're just too darn long". For this I apologize. It is never meant to be that way but seems to always turn out that way. Oh well, that 'ol saying... "You can't please everyone. I'm gonna try to keep
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Thane1's Journal

speaking of roll searching

I just ordered my first boxes of coins from my bank. W.K.F. and J Lloyd Young are onto something. I ordered 2 boxes of pennies (2 x $25, 5000 coins total) and 2 boxes of nickels (2 x $100, 4000 coins total) from my bank. Whooey. That's exhausting work. I'm used to searching just 4 or 10 rolls at a time, so I can enjoy almost every coin with a loupe and find RPM's and such in sub-MS examples. But looking at coins by the thousands, it's all about dates and gems. I made it through a box
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North Country Collectibles L's Journal

More Collectable STUFF right in Pocket Change !!!

Keeping your eyes open pays off again ...and again .... I enjoyed reading W.K.F's entry about those smooth edge bank roll finds ....having just got home from work I had a find of my own today ...one 1935-F $1.00 Silver Certificate . Yes there really WAS indeed a time where paper money could really be exchanged for a " hard asset "...real tangible money . Since March I have enjoyed numerous finds at work including several 1955-D/S Nickels , a red seal $100.00 bill from the 60's that retails
CoinsbyGary

Eye Candy on Morgan Dollars

Toning on Morgan Dollars can serve a very good purpose. Greetings all, I have long admired the 2009 grand prize winning ?Chappell Collection? of proof Morgan Dollars. Frosty devices on unmarked, mirrored fields combine to make this collection of Morgan Dollars a beauty to behold. Morgan Dollars of this quality are extremely rare though, since most have some degree of contact marks. Proofs aside, freshly minted Morgan Dollars were harshly handled. Fresh off the dies these dollars were thrown in
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W.K.F.'s Journal

WASHINGTON ERRORS & Other "Valuble Finds"...

I've shared this with some of you already... Greetings Collectors, Having "original bank rolls" on the brain lately, I just wanted to share with the rest of you that there are sill treasures to be found when "searching rolls". Up 'til the time our banks here in Fl. quit getting the new coinage, I would "religiously" get two rolls of each new issue. I really think the mint was directly involved when the banks quit getting rolls of the newly issued coins, cents through the dollars. It's kinda
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Thunaer's Journal

Butterfly's dream

Patience pays off in coin collecting. This is my first journal and I would like to say "hello" to all fellow coin collectors. For months I've been searching for a decent specimen of Polish 2001 2 Zlote Butterfly minted in Nordic Gold... with no success. But recently the fortune smiled at me, not only did I find decent specimen, I got one graded MS 65, best grade assigned to that coin by NGC so far. NGC has graded only 2 Butterfly's MS 65. As most times in coin collecting the patience paid
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backdraft237's Journal

"Second time was a charm"

The post office finally got it right! After several months saving up to purchase the 2006 SAE reverse proof and one lost by the postal service, and then waiting several weeks for my refund from the insurance claim it has finally made it here. Now my decision is whether or not to start on the America the Beautiful quarters or not,and if so do I get the 5 oz. ones or not. Well happy collecting to all and thanks for the ones that gave me heads up last time on where to buy this one from.
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Dennis B-migration's Journal

"The time has come," the Walrus said,

"To talk of many things: ...of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--of cabbages--and kings--and to pay a price much too high for coins and other things.   All literary parodies aside, the time has come for me to take one of my rare splurges to buy I coin I feel is a key for my collection. There are very few of these so called key coins in my collecting dreams. I can admire and enjoy all coins without actually owning them. But I have come to the realization that the coin on which I have my sig
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The Beaw's Den's Journal

The one that finally came home

Or how I added the S VDB for the second time. Way back in the 1980's, the coin shop I frequented used to sponsor a weekly bid board that contained all manner of treasures and junk. One week, I finally spotted the one treasure, a 1909-S VDB, that I had been seeking to fill my Whitman Bookshelf Albums one remaining hole (not counting that 55DD or that 22 NO D). I placed a bid and found myself that Saturday Morning, when the board closed as the proud owner of that elusive coin, VF condition, pai
Mokiechan

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jackson64's Journal

A Forgotten Bid--and won

low ball longshots sometimes pan out I know that this has probably happened to many of us at one time or another...the scenario--- ( and I'll keep it in the first person) I'll see a coin or a lot for auction at some site. The coin may pique my interest--yet it doesn't "wow" me for some reason. The reason can be from it not being the ideal grade I'm searching for, the "look" I'm hunting down or even that I expect that the cost may go higher than I'm willing to pay... So interest piqued but
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Thane1's Journal

Multiholder naming contest

What's a good name for this die break? Like many journal posters here, "spring cleaning" of the collection is constant. Keep what's really good, focus collecting in just a few areas, eventually get rid of everything else. My family recently moved. Not only moved, but downsized our dwelling, so space is at a premium. Sure, I can hold onto boxes and boxes of 2x2's, tubes of choice or better modern coinage (already searched!), etc. But I can actually put my winter hats in a closet if I shri
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Bammer's Journal

A Major Decision That Makes Me Sad

But the decision also makes me happy! Hello all, This past 2 weeks I've been doing one of 3 things: either working, watching playoff baseball (GO YANKEES!!!) or mulling over a really major decision! The major decision is the subject of this journal article. I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to sell a portion of my coins. This is a sad decision, I've never met a coin I didn't like (well, I guess that's 1% untrue, as I don't really care for the Anthony dollar), but it's also a happy
Iowa Silver Baron Bammer

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W.K.F.'s Journal

FELLOW COLLECTORS HERE ARE "AWESOME"!

Trusting one another & haven't been letdown yet!!! We are a part of a special breed of "human beings". Greetings Collectors, I just got off the phone with a fellow collector here and we struck a deal on a trade for all of the "original" bank wrapped rolls of coins I had pictured in a previous journal + 16 original rolls of Presidential dollars. This will be the 6th deal I have struck with a fellow collector and I just want to share that we collectors are a "special breed", a "rare breed"
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