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NGC Journals

My World Crown Affair

Mansfeld Mystery Solved

This a follow up on my earlier post about a 1560 Mansfeld thaler that I bought last Spring and then immediately received buy offers through the Heritage auction site.  I wondered what might be so special about this coin and made some posts on this and other forums to see if I could find out.  Finally, I got a PM through this site from a person who found my earlier post and provided some information about the attribution for this coin.  As I had speculated, there is nothing particularly special a
jgenn

jgenn

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The Roman Empire

Epilogue to the Roman Empire

The latest update on my Roman Empire is that I added another Page (grouping of 15 coins).    This time, I added a new Page at the end, entitled "Epilogue", here is the synopsis..."After the deposition of the last claimant to Rome's throne, various successor states (e.g., Ostrogoths, Vandals, and Lombards) vie with Constantinople for dominion over the West."   I decided to add this Chapter after I learned more about what happened *after* the fall of the Western Roman Empire.  
Kohaku

Kohaku

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coin928's Journal

When did the Philadelphia Mint first identify itself on a coin?

It all depends on how you ask the question… What year did a P mint mark first appear on a U.S. coin struck for circulation? --- 1942 What year did a P mint mark first appear on a coin struck for circulation? ---------- 1941 What year was the Philadelphia mint first identified on a circulating coin? ---------- 1895 I submitted 43 coins to NGC at the World’s Fair of Money in Philadelphia this year.  The majority were raw coins for grading, but some were regrades, some for
coin928

coin928

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When I’m Wiser and I’m Older

We’ll get ‘em next year…

After I graduated from undergrad a bunch of the people that I went to school with started a tailgate for graduates from our year called the “We’ll get ‘em next year” tailgate. I was a reference to the fact that our football team frankly wasn’t that great and when we’d have a bad game or a bad year we’d say, “We’ll get ‘em next year,” and we’d been saying that for several years running at this point. I’m realizing at this point that I’ve let this year slip past me and, contrary to what I sai
Revenant

Revenant

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When I’m Wiser and I’m Older

Unexpectedly Revisiting the Family Mint Sets

About 11 years ago now, during my last year as an undergraduate, I helped by step-father build a group of mint sets - one for all of our birth years. We worked together on it all summer, hunting down coins and mint sets, sifting through mint sets looking for coins that we would later submit ourselves, going to coin shows together. It was a lot of great fun and when it was all said and done we completed most of the sets. The 1958, 1982, and 1983 sets remained unfinished. We were going to try
Revenant

Revenant

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Finally Completed The 1946-1964 Roosevelt Dime Set

Link To My Roosevelt Dime Auctions On Great Collections

Hi All The first set of 20 Roosevelt dimes has been entered for the Sunday 11-25 Auctions. Here is the link   Press the  shift key and the left side of the mouse. https://www.greatcollections.com/search.php?mode=product&series=34&page=3&pp=50 There will be 20 coins per week for 6 weeks. Thanks for viewing and I hope you bid to get a few.   Thanks Mark gemguy2u    
Mark Gibson - Gemguy2u

Mark Gibson - Gemguy2u

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When I’m Wiser and I’m Older

It's the waiting that's going to get me...

We're finally coming up on the end of the year. Starting in January the annual look back on things begins an around February we should find out about pay raises and bonuses. I'm hoping both for a decent raise and a great bonus. I joined the company about a year ago and I think I've performed beyond their expectations in a vast majority of ways, going from being a new hire to a person that's writing technical papers for the company and giving presentations at conferences and symposia. My goa
Revenant

Revenant

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Looking Back on MY 70 Years of Coin Collecting

Looking Back on my 70 years of coin collecting

Chapter 7 How many of you remember when NCLT was a four letter word As I remember it, I first came face-to-face with the acronym NCLT sometime in the very late 1970’s or early 1980’s. The first time I remember seeing it was in rants in the “letters to the editor” column in  coin newspapers (newspaper not magazine) and it had to do with what might be called “Commemorative Sets” or modified Proof/UNC sets. I believe several of the British Commonwealth countries started issuing these coins/set
RAM-VT

RAM-VT

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Finally Completed The 1946-1964 Roosevelt Dime Set

Time To Sell My Roosevelt Dime Set " Don't Be Mad - Be Clad "

OK one and all. After many years of collecting and now I am wanting to get things in order for retirement, I am going to be selling my Roosevelt Dime Set - " Don't Be Mad - Be Clad " in the 1965 to date Circulation Issue. The set is ranked #1 and has most of the 1 only coins available for the grade. It will be up for auction on Great Collections over 6 weeks beginning Sunday 11-25 and the last auction will be on 12-30. 119 coins total so get ready to bid. The coins have already been shipped
Mark Gibson - Gemguy2u

Mark Gibson - Gemguy2u

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Looking Back on MY 70 Years of Coin Collecting

Ram’s Soap Box

Learn Grading: What Are Full Bands and Full Torch? https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/6812/learn-grading-dimes/ Nothing new here, I am back to my pet peeve – silly grading standards. You can go onto reading other posts – this is my pet peeve and I am going to continue with such posts until someone can provide a convincing argument on why what NGC is doing is superior to my approach. I will be referring to the NGC article with the above address so I suggest you bring it up.
RAM-VT

RAM-VT

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The Roman Empire

The tragic tale of Roman Empress Galeria Valeria

The latest update on my Roman Empire NGC Ancients Custom Set is that I finished and posted my Owner's Comments for my ancient bronze follis featuring Roman Empress Galeria Valeria.   For this essay, I spent some time researching what appears to be the most widely cited primary source of information on Valeria, a book called De Mortibus Persecutorum written in 4th century AD by the imperial advisor Lactantius.  Lactiantius' account is necessarily biased, yet even so provides some very i
Kohaku

Kohaku

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MissJessicaJean

1776 Continental Curency

Hopefully im doing this right.i went to an estate sale and bought this old very old ugly coin i took it to a silver shop and had it put on their machine to read what medals were in it ..the man looks at me and says (its fake)Lol well according to the machine with all the different cheaper metal in it .it equals out to be made out of pewter.and i would like to know how to or what steps to take to go about to get it certified .ect..i looked at the submision forms it was confusing to me ..this web
Jessica Gardner

Jessica Gardner

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When I’m Wiser and I’m Older

Looks like I'm going to be looking to buy some MS70 gold soon.

My wife and I found out a couple of weeks ago that we're expecting our second child in the middle of next year. Most people don't know yet but we'll get around to that when we're further along in the process and we know a little more. We won't have the first doctor's appointment for another 3 weeks. When my son was born I picked up a quarter oz gold American Eagle in MS70 for his birth year. I'll be looking to do that again with the new baby.  I'm also hoping I might be able to talk my wife
Revenant

Revenant

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Looking Back on MY 70 Years of Coin Collecting

Looking Back on my 70 years of coin collecting

Chapter 6 The Hunt I don’t care what you collect, every collector dreams of that “Big Find,” that is the (put in your own value) dollar rarity that falls into your lap for a steal and it is all legal and aboveboard. Does this really happen? Yes and I want to tell you about mine. But let’s first discuss what makes such finds possible. With just a couple of exception all my successful hunts took place at local auctions. Some were estate auctions that had a few coins in them, some were regular
RAM-VT

RAM-VT

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moondoggy's Journal

American Silver Eagles

Greetings all.  It has been awhile but I am back.  Have a question about American Silver Eagles.  Given the current price of silver  and what the U.S. Mint is charging for these has anyone backed off purchasing these ?  When silver was much higher they sold in the $50 range but now when silver is so low they are and have been charging the same !   Thoughts Mike
moondoggy

moondoggy

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The Roman Empire

Owner's Comments posted for Gordian I Alexandrian tetradrachm

Just a quick note to say that I finally finished and posted Owner's Comments for my Alexandrian tetradrachm featuring Roman Emperor Gordian I.   Gordian I was an interesting fellow, one of richest and most learned of all Rome's  Emperors.  Gordian I rose to power in March 238 AD, a year that is infamously known to history as the Year of the Six Emperors.  He was eighty years old when he and his son took on the challenges to rule the Empire as co-Augusti.   Their reign lasted
Kohaku

Kohaku

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My World Crown Affair

(Mint) Life during Wartime -- Part II

I have posted about emergency issues but what kind of calamity could compare to your city besieged?  Siege money are the ultimate emergency issues -- defending soldiers required pay and internal commerce needed to be maintained.  Many examples come from the period of the Eighty Years War, also known as the Dutch War of Independence that occurred from 1568–1648 or from the English Civil Wars in 1642-1651.    When regular coinage became scarce jewelry, silverware and religious vessel
jgenn

jgenn

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Looking Back on MY 70 Years of Coin Collecting

Looking Back on my 70 years of coin collecting

Chapter 5 Tools of the traded What “tools” do coin collectors need to support their interest in this hobby? As with most things related to coin collecting I have very strong opinions on this topic. I will however try to be realistic. I want to first address the tools that are available to collectors. 1 – Numismatic Knowledge – This is without a doubt the key tool in the coin collector’s tool box. The truest guidance ever given the collector is the old adage “buy the book before th
RAM-VT

RAM-VT

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Joe Ferentz

Washingtons

recently acquired set of 1932 - 1964 Washington Quarters. seller stated that set was "informally graded by an independent third party and ranges are from MS-60 to MS-65." although I doubt the '36-D is MS. here's some pics made with digital point n shoot, so forgive the quality. to be clear, each obverse is followed by same coin's reverse. considering grading. opinions (especially of Washington collectors) are welcome. be kind.
JoeF

JoeF

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Thai coin collecting journey!

My 2nd submission to NGC!

I chronicled my first submission and the outcome here a few months ago, well I just mailed off my 2nd submission! Again, 19 coins and all from thailand. Last time I submitted 19 thai coins, I had 11 graded, 8 details. There were some coins I expected to get details and some I did not expect. I used the experience I learned from the last submission to carefully inspect my current submission..........hoping for no details grade!!!
Jade Collection

Jade Collection

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CoinsbyGary

A Most Excellent Provenance and a Good Friend

Because of my Laura Gardin Fraser collection an article in the June 2018 issue of The Numismatist entitled, “Fraser Finds”, aroused my interest. The author of that article went on to describe his pure joy at the Fraser finds comparable to that of discovering lost treasure. For my part I found this article fascinating. Never could I have imagined that Tom Rochovansky and his wife Nancy were preserving so much of the Fraser’s work as a legacy to them. Normally for me this is where the story e
coinsbygary

coinsbygary

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