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NGC Journals

Johnson 1's Journal

Are the grading services, all what we are to belive they are??

Are you sure or do you have question at times too I have received my 9 submission coins 2008 Silver Eagle Proofs back from NGC. Of my submission I received 3 PF70 and 6 PF69. I have reviewed the grading and have found that NGC has under graded 3 of the coins. 3 of the 2008 silver eagles disserved the grade of PF69 and 3 were under graded to PF69. I am not happy with the grades. I am going to resubmit these 3 coins back to NGC for a second look. If they fail to upgrade then off to PCGS they
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JCM-Houston1's Journal

The waiting is killing me!!!

Turn-around times stretch from hours, to days, to weeks... I'm fairly new, well I should say back from a long spell(10 years)away from coins. About the only things I have bought in the past ten years were pieces for my British set. With the kids out of college, and the wife and I haveing good jobs I found myself drifting back into coins over the past several months. I dug out the parts of my old collection I had from the pre-slabbing days and found a few Morgans, SLQ's and a Barber dime or
JCM-Houston1

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Mr. Thompson's Journal

Took a couple of weeks off

What the heck happened? I admit it is fun to "compete" against you fine folks out there but I collect to preserve history, the thrill of the chase and to fill up another safe. Well, the other safe part is a crock of ____ but the first two are true. I really hadn't added anything of substance recently and was blown away by the field. Wow, just hanging out really gets one behind so to speak. Go out and have a great week and let an old man get some steam so I can get back in the ballgame.
Mr. Thompson

Mr. Thompson

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Admiral Mike-migration's Journal

Buy Some...Sell Some... Doing the Shuffle.

But in the process, I dropped like a rock... but that's ok. To collectors of every stripe comes the time when you take stock of what you have. What you have accquired versus the direction you would like your collection to go. And not just your collection either. We all do this in every aspect of our life. Our job, relationships, social standing even our car..everything. So that is what I found myself doing this weekend. I examined all my coins. I have a large safe to keep them in, so frid
Admiral Mike-migration

Admiral Mike-migration

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Metal 9's Journal

Finally

The mint came through Well, the mint finally sent the coins I ordered for xmas presents in November. The last box will be delivered Sunday morning to my mother-in-law. (She is a sweetie) She will receive 3 Presidential dollar Proof sets, and a D roll of Wash & Adam Dollars. She has quite a collection of the new dollars, and wants to put together sets for all her grandchildren. She has the albums for them, and is just collecting the coins as they come out. She gets the P rolls from her daug
Metal 9

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tomt-migration's Journal

The Waiting and Anticipation

This must be NGC?s busiest time of the year. I couldn?t sleep last night, so I logged into my account to catch-up on reading some journal entries. There were two entries that really hit home to me and they were written by Bruce Willmore and Bully. I also have two submissions that have been setting as received since last Monday and have been checking their status three to four times a day all week long. They will probably remain as received until the middle of this coming week. It?s the excite
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Dawbid's Journal

Its A Long Road

The Presidential Dollars are a hopeful beginning.... When I first started collecting as a teenager I suppose I did not take it all very seriously and over the years I have more or less dabbled at the whole thing and made it a delightful diversion. And now well.... I guess I am looking at the process as just a fun experience. I only joined the "society" rather recently and this enterprise has brought me to a place where I have to seek professional graders to validate and therefore register coi
Dawbid

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Art B's Journal

I COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR ANY BETTER

2008 AMERICAN EAGLE PROOFS FINALLY MADE IT IN MY HANDS AFTER GRADING I recently purchased 30 of the 2008 American Eagle Proofs. I pre-screened them and sent 24 to NGC for grading. I was extremely happy to see that 16 out of 24 were 70's. I was really hoping that I might get one 69* but not to be. Like other journals I've read, my coins sat in receiving for over a week. It took the whole 12 days, not including weekends, to finish the whole process.
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neverman's Journal

Awaiting my "Skinny Chicken"

My Bald Eagle Coin..STILL on the way!! When I first started collecting baseball cards, I was about 14 years old, and had the urge to have quantity over quality. I felt that IF I collected enough, SOME "valuable" cards would certainly be in the stack. But a very good friend of mine intervened, and told me something that has always been my mantra in collecting to this very day. He said "NEVER collect ANYTHING you don't personally LOVE." This rule has worked well for me over the years, a
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silver dollar's Journal

Don't let it get you down Bruce...I been there two

If I had the proverbial nickel for each time I got everything packaged and ready to go.... I would be a wealthy man and able to but that barber proof dime and quarter I need. although my normal goof is to get the coins in the package and forget the invoice...or get the invoice in and forget the coins...talk about being in a hurry...It really is that feeling of anticipation you get to see the results of the grading, I'm with the others here who have posted concerning their setting on pins and
silver dollar

silver dollar

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Robertsson's IceCoinage

It Don't seem to be a good time for submissions.

I Hope things get better I myself sent out another group of coins out this week(today). This Time to NCS. And after getting dinner started I decided to check out for any new journals and low and behold Bruce is having a not such a good day as many of the other society members. I hope this is not becoming a trend or bad omen. Maybe it's one of the NGC Gods that frowned on us for some reason we do not know of. How do you appease a angry NGC God. Maybe just maybe if we throw our pcgs slabs into a
Iceman

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Bruce Willmore's Journal

Somebody did not want me to make a submission to NGC this weekend

What a comedy of errors and mishaps... For those who might happen to read some of my postings, you may know that I had planned to send out another submission this weekend. First step was to print copies of the invoices. I proceeded to do this and then ran out of paper. After much searching through my children's effects (and much to their chagrin later, I'm sure) I finally found some paper, as I happened to be out (I wonder how that happened...) Then, after carefully packaging the coins and t
Bruce Willmore

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BULLY's Journal

I'm with Bruce

And busily keeping my small town post office in business! I have three or four invoices at NGC which have stayed in "Received" status for about a week, Modern, Modern Special and World Modern. But, instead of letting NGC deal with those, what do I do? I went to the post office in the sleet today, early, before it got too slippery, and submitted FIVE MORE invoices. A couple Modern Special, including my REPLACEMENT 10th Anniversary Platinum Eagles from the Mint, a Modern or two, and yet a
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E Larz

NGC holder says PF67 but Registry says PF66

Anyone else ever have this happen? Recently, I won a coin at auction on Ebay, a fine example of a proof Mercury dime. Specifically, a 1940 proof Mercury dime graded Proof-67 (PF67) by NGC which is pictured below. However, when you enter the certification number (1867064-001) into the "Cert Lookup" on the Collector's Society website, it only garners a Proof-66 (PF66). As you can imagine with many coins where one grade point can be the difference in 100's to 100,000's of dollars, there seems
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BULLY's Journal

To "Disheartened"

Is it that they were bodybagged, or is that they just didn't cross at an equivalent grade? My initial reaction to the earlier posting was that if your coins were bodybagged, that something must have been wrong with them, and that you at least did have the coins to make your set, small consolation that it was, and if they were cleaned, damaged, or what-have-you, could have NCS (NGC's sister "Conservation" company) conserve and encapsulate them for you. In reading your most recent entry, it al
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Clay's Journal

VICTORIA CROSS!

Just back from grading at NGC. ..Another work of Art from the Canada Mint.I guess they don't have committees telling them what art is. They seem to produce their coins for the people and they have meaning.
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audrop's Journal

Condolences to jayh749

Now you know what they mean by 'join the club'. When I first started on my epic journey of coin collecting, I thought all you had to do was invest a few hard-earned dollars and buy a nice looking coin in a slab, or if raw, send it into a grading company and wait for your 'prize' to be returned. It seems to me, after reading numerous journal entries, that all of us have experienced the same excitement (of buying a great looking coin), the same exhiliration (of submitting said coin for grading
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jiml-migration's Journal

I've been so busy I havn't had time to write!!

"A little bit of this and a little bit of that" (H.L.'s line) This month every time I logged on to this web site, I only had time to read the journals not to write one. I thought I would try and squeeze one in before the end of the month. I got my submission back, the Jamestown proofs came back 70s and the 1991 veterans coins all came in at MS69. I am gathering my next one presently. I came across a 1991-95 WWII anniversary silver dollar and am going after a proof silver dollar next, both for
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Bob J's Journal

Where do I find mintages

I Need help Where can I find out how many were actually sold from the US Mint on a coin? I do have the red book, but I am looking for something more up to date if possible. Thanks in advance Happy Collecting Bob
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silver dollar's Journal

Kudo's to NGC World graders...I think

Not to rub it in Bruce..more like to let me cry... sent in 18 canadian halves ( george the VI) recvd on the 21'st of Jan. graded; in holders: and shipped the 30'th....of course out of the 18 I sent, 12 of them were body bagged...oh my oh my...let me cry some more in my pepsi....would have been a complete set of Georges except the ML Curv7...now what..do I go ahead and do the set? after I finish crying, I'll decide... dean
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Clay's Journal

VEDETTE

Just back from grading ..This is my newest addition to my Canada Aviation Series! NGC continues to do an excellent job. Canada has a rich history of aircraft, this series has helped me understand Canada better. ..It would be great if the U.S. Mint would do a series on United States air history!
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Bruce Willmore's Journal

I suspect this is a busy time of year for NGC

My submission is not flowing through anywhere near as fast as my last ones this past Fall. My guess is that October and November are slow periods for NGC, and January is a peak period. I've only belonged to the Collector's Society for a year, so I have no real experience to base that assumption on, but that's the impression I'm getting, because NGC sure does seem SLLLOOOWWWWWW right now............... I'm sure that they are still within their published estimates and don't fault them at all.
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