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NGC Journals

neverman's Journal

Hope You All Had a Great Thanksgiving!!!

Some "raw" Coins I am looking forward to adding to my Registry Next year!! Well, the turkey has been devoured. The stuffing, yams, gravy, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie has been consumed. The wine and beer have been properly "recycled" and the annual family feuds have been re-energized. Must be the day after Thanksgiving!! I am not one of those who go out the day after and shop and get into the crazies. Usually the Friday after I sit home and nurse a small hangover and try to find som
neverman

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MapleWalnut's Journal

Every One is a Coin Collector!

It is just to what extent you are... (where are you on the charts) The Starter Collector The first type of collector is the starter collector. These kinds of people collect the low end or modern coins. They collect the state quarters and buy occasionally. They just buy and go to coin shows at random. They don't read or educate themselves and most likely only do the state quarter collections. I am sorry to say that these are the people that when they go to sell there coins that are worth mayb
MapleWalnut

MapleWalnut

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When I’m Wiser and I’m Older

Controling Certification Numbers

Should I add the rest of the family's coins to my registry? I've made gifts of a few certified coins to my stepfather and I'll soon be giving him a few more. I'm also going to be holding on to some coins for my niece until she gets a little older. So far I haven't had any of these coins as part of my registry, even though I'm the only family member with an account. I've been considering adding them because 1 it aids the inventory process and records the certification numbers in the event of th
Revenant

Revenant

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Dawbid's Journal

There Is Collecting & Then There Is Coin Collecting

One man's trash is another man's hobby. The Coin Collecting Dilemma When it comes to collecting there does not seem to be any shortage. Everything has some collect-ability it seems. Yet collectables vary so greatly that we sometimes come to the place where we say: Hum?. what shall I collect. I like stamps, but I don't know just where to begin. For a quite a while I saved stamps, there was no apparent goal in mind, except to save them. I began with stamps on the letters, and when I got a let
Dawbid

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cornbeef and coinage's Journal

GOT FINDS?

your stuff? A follow up to my last journal entry...I'd love to hear other people's stories of the special finds they've come across in their collecting history. I'm new at collecting, and although I am an NGC member, I use a common, free e-mail address so I can't join the NGC forum and contribute or ask dumb questions of those members, so I'll have to rely on you all to contribute your insights and experiences in the collector journals you write. I'd really appreciate this interaction while I
cornbeef and coinage

cornbeef and coinage

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cornbeef and coinage's Journal

lucky find for a new collector

buried treasure! I recently purchased a 1999 silver proof complete 9 coin set in ngc proof 69 on ebay "buy it now" for $319. not a bad deal, eh? but it gets better....buried in the description page of the listing, not the title page that most buyers look at, the seller casually mentioned that the whole set was pf 69, except the connecticut quarter which was a proof 70! It's a beauty! So is the rest of the set! As a new collector I was shocked this set and it's buried treasure came into my ha
cornbeef and coinage

cornbeef and coinage

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GSA_Gem_Quest's Journal

Coin Hogs Unite!!

SUUUUU-WEEEEET!!!! At the request of some coin hogs, I am republishing this journal from a year ago. They say reading it inspires them to go out and buy more coins?is this a good thing? Here you go? We know who we are. We have some money, but we always need more. We postpone purchases of non-necessities. We let our houses fall into disrepair to save cash. We eat at inexpensive restaurants when we could afford better. We drive older cars when we could have newer ones. We don?t care.
GSA_Gem_Quest

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DRB59's Journal

One small step forward, four steps back

I add another Full Step to my set, but lose ground. I added another Full Step Jefferson to my circulation strike set yesterday, and this got me to 50% completed. It is a nice 1994P MS66 6FS. I was happy with this milestone and only had another 80 coins to go. But today I look and find that they added the four 2007 coins to the list and now I drop back to 48%!
DRB59

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JJ's Coins and Collectibles's Journal

JEFFERSON POINTS JUMPED

Finally the points are catching up to the rarity The late 60's/early 70s proof jefferson nickels in PF69UC recently jumped up in points value significantly. They went from 3-100 points to some over 500 points. These are very hard to find coins with low populations and they deserve this adjustment. Nice job NGC! Only problem is I don't have any of them! So I dropped from #4 to #5 in the 1965 and later Jefferson Proof category. I need to get busy on eBay!
Clay's Journal

Cheerios dollar!

I read an article in Coin World that I found very interesting! ....The U.S. Mint and General Mills ran a promotional program, where 5,500 Sacagawea 2000-P dollars were placed at random in Cheerios cereal boxes. The reverse was struck from dies that were different than the circulation and annual collector sets. A collector got one on EBAY recently for $9,999.99!!!!!!!It was a PCGS MS-66. ....Now, I don't know about you, but I've never found anything in a cereal box that was worth anything. I
Clay

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MapleWalnut's Journal

I Have Once Again Changed My Name!

I just can't find a name that I like... I used to be the New England Collection and then a few days ago I changed my name to the Dawg Collection. Today, I changed it to the Pinnacle Collection and just can't find the right name sooner or later I will get the right name. I you have any ideas on a good name please contact me, I AM ALL EARS TO ANY USERNAMES!
MapleWalnut

MapleWalnut

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MapleWalnut's Journal

NGC Should Get More Respect!

People really need to stop terrorizing NGC for a few reasons that some of us may not understand?... Hi, First of all, people always right about in their journals about how bad NGC is because they didn't holder the coin or didn't get the grade. Sometimes they might make a mistake, they are human like the rest of us. But, all you here about is how bad they are and really I don't think that you can be one of the best grading services if you mess up all the time. NGC has trained professionals wo
MapleWalnut

MapleWalnut

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When I’m Wiser and I’m Older

Rotating Sets

Moving from one thing to another and back again. (I'm sorry I make these longer every time don't I?)I've always had ADD so I've never been able to do one thing exclusively for too long. My coin collecting is no exception. Instead of having one main project I have several and I switch between acquiring coins for different sets. Late last month I picked up some SAEs, then I bought a MS63 Morgan for my type set (which may ultimately get upgraded to a MS64 but I liked the look of this 63), and just
Revenant

Revenant

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MapleWalnut's Journal

Being disrespected

It is sometimes hard to be a kid in the Coin World? When I go to shows sometimes dealers look at me weird because I am only a 14 year old kid and what do I know. It is not until I sit down and talk to them that they actually see that I am pretty knowledgeable. At CoinFest this past month in Connecticut I started to talk to a dealer and he started to quiz me. At first he talked to me like I didn?t know a thing about coins. He then showed me a PR 67* Trade Dollar and asked me why Trade Dollars
MapleWalnut

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MapleWalnut's Journal

Type Collecting Is the Way to Go!

Everything is different... If you are the kind of person that just gets tired of getting the same coin design 50 or more times than that is how I felt about one year ago. I was collecting Buffalos and completed the set in certified PCGS and NGC holders with most of them being in high grades. Most people would keep on going with the series and upgrade all the coins but not me. I decided to sell the set and save some of the money I made and put the rest of the money into my type set that is in p
MapleWalnut

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money man's Journal

Grandson

Buying coins on Ebay I've bought some Merc dimes on Ebay recently. I got a good deal on a few of them, but one of them I really had to fight for. By the end of the auction, I kind of felt like I was in the same position as my grandson. Have a Great Thanksgiving Everyone!!!!!
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neverman's Journal

I found a 1939 Nickel (not a D) in My Sons Piggy Bank

I just HAPPENED to Look at the Date Probably not worth much, but it was incredible to see such an old coin just laying there on the coin pile as we were counting his money ( he has managed to save $77...and he's just 10 years old!!) I gave him 5 dollars for it. Also found some 1962 Quarters. It's a lot of fun finding these coins, knowing they all have silver content.
neverman

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Wissahickon Collection's Journal

A TALE OF TWO COINS

"It was the BEST of coins; it was the WORST of coins." Recently, I consigned two coins from my collection to auction. In reflecting on the experience, I realized how emotional this hobby can be. For the act of selling these two coins elicited very different feelings on my part. The first coin is an 1872 Two Cent, AU-55 PCGS. This is a beautiful coin, one of my first 2 Cent purchases (Feb. 1997). I loved this coin and pulled it out for viewing, frequently. However, it was the only coin
Wissahickon Collection

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MapleWalnut's Journal

My first ever Certified Coin!

Thanks dad... I am only 14 and my dad started off my certified coin collection by giving me a 1938-D Buffalo in PCGS MS 66 and when he gave it to me around this holiday season I was thrilled. I mean giving an 8 a coin like that will excite anyone I think. The past six years I have built upon that Buffalo that he had given me and completed the Buffalo nickel series in all NGC and PCGS holders. Most of them were high grades but I have since moved on to Type collecting because after a while I beg
MapleWalnut

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MapleWalnut's Journal

GOLD WILL GO UP AND UP AND UP!

Gold will hit the one thousand mark! Gold is going all the way to $1000 and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The market is getting crushed and things are starting to get bad. The prices of housing keep on dropping and the dollar is getting killed. Even Canadian money is worth more than the US Dollar. All you people with common gold or anyone with gold coins better hold on to it because gold is going up and maybe even higher than $1000. In a few more months you will be happy that you re
MapleWalnut

MapleWalnut

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MapleWalnut's Journal

This is a Magizine that as a collector you have to read!

Beats any coin magizine... Dallas, TX: Former Frito-Lay International CEO and rare-coin supercollector Jim O'Neal is featured on the cover of the premiere issue of Heritage Magazine for the Intelligent Collector. The quarterly magazine, hitting mailboxes this month, targets readers pursuing the world's most valuable collectibles, with stories on Hollywood memorabilia (a 1934 "The Black Cat" movie poster that fetched more than $250,000); White House mementos (jewelry being auctioned by former
MapleWalnut

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cornbeef and coinage's Journal

20th anniversary gold/silver sets

reading threads I was reading some of the threads, and one caught my eye in particular. It was talking about NGC allowing open boxed 20th anniversary sets and the gold and silver 20th anniversary sets that were opened (not mint sealed) to be graded and designated with the black label. If this is true, there will be a marked shift in the values assigned to these coins as the population increases of these so-designated coins...and the people trying to sell mint sealed boxes won't be able to goug
cornbeef and coinage

cornbeef and coinage

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