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NGC Journals

roelsports1's Journal

Making progress

The SLQ series is tough! Added one more to my set, last week....1930 MS67FH..very nice coin with details and luster...I also managed to post some pictures, albeit not very good. I'm not sure I realized how tough the Standing Libertys in MS would be. I'd better hunker down, 'cause it looks like I'm in for a long hunt. On the bright side, when this is completed, I will really have accomplished something.....scr 1917-S-SLQ
roelsports1

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SampledCarton-migration's Journal

I love 1996 w dimes.

2 w mint mark dimes in the same package. ive been collecting 1996 w mint mark dimes for some time now , as well as lots of other coins, but i always seem to purchase these dimes,, well i came across a seller not long ago , he had a 1996 mint set , and when i opened it , there were the normal coins,, the certification and all other normal stuff,, then i pulled out the tiny package that holds the 96 w dime,, and to my disbelief , there were 2 w dimes in it. i added a picture so you could all see
Wayne C's Journal

I got it 1893 P Morgan

It came home today Hi, I finally paid it off. It is mine. MS 63 NGC Graded Key date beauty THis is the highest graded Key date morgan I own. My local dealer put this aside for me and I paid it off TODAY! 93p-close.
Wayne C

Wayne C

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Allan C Ong's Journal

re: SGS PF-70s

YGWYPF... "I think SGS guarantees that everything you send them comes back MS70. Why waste all that time sorting, or even looking at your coins for submission? Just send them to Star Grading Service. Judging by Ebay - they seem to be doing a BANG up business."   -- That's kinda sad, really... New collectors who don't know any better think they're getting a bargain. Except that later on, they'll find that their SGS PF-70 isn't really worth much (or anything at all). -- I think that esta
Allan C Ong

Allan C Ong

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Indiana Apostle's Journal

NGC Coin Values

NGC V. PCGS I too have been curious about the pricing of NGC coins. I have asked people who have been in the business for numerous years. They have all told me that NGC are not as strict in their grading as PCGS. I also hear that a lot more new coins are going to NGC. That being said, it appears to be a seller's market. I do appreciate the two leaders of the "slab" community grading coins. It really helps out the Investors/Collectors. Of course the old adage about buying the coin, not
Indiana Apostle

Indiana Apostle

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InfoSciCo's Journal

Week One

My first week in graded coin collecting... Today ends my first week of graded coin collecting. I'd been collecting coins for some time now. Mostly gold eagles. A few platinum. A set of silver eagle proofs. Nice coins, but other than the rising monitary value, it wasn't really that interesting. I had seen slabbed coins, of course, but never took much interest in them. And back a few months ago, I started selling part of my collection of gold eagles. Since buying them, they had risen
InfoSciCo

InfoSciCo

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Clay's Journal

Thank You NGC!

Quality! Quality! Quality! It's been over two years now that I've been submitting coins to NGC. The Customer Service people have been very outstanding! If you have a problem they fix it!! THANKS! The graders have been great, I'm not so concerned about the time, what I want is quality. I just ask that my coins be graded on what they are and not some curve or percentage. THANKS!
Clay

Clay

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Skeester's Journal

GRADING! Now HERE'S a topic!

I, too have bought a few lunches, dinners, and breakfasts for the graders at NGC, only to have "not gradable coins"... ...come back in body bags. I've had a B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L Morgan 1884-O that I bought off an auction site, and as good as my untrained eye is, tried to match hairlines from other graded Morgans, and this one had ALOT more hairlines than those graded in MS65! I was psyched! Plus, it had a nice slight cameo on both obverse and reverse. The reverse was a good guess at MS66, if
Skeester

Skeester

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kimocoins-migration's Journal

Grading Gripes: By MWIT

Altered Surfaces - maybe/maybe not. But if you are really, really confident the coin is correctly graded and it has no altered surfaces, then you should have no problems cracking it out and submitting raw to PCGS or NGC.   My personal philosophy is: "Buy the coin, not the holder, provided the coin is in an acceptable holder."The picture submitted by MWIT only shows the obverse, and perhaps the alteration is on the reverse? Even so, it is hard to tell without having coin in hand, but is it p
kimocoins-migration

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MarkW's Journal

Grading Gripes?

Live and Learn! In some of my previous journal entries, I?ve done my share of beefing about the long wait only to receive ?body bags? containing coins that wouldn?t grade. My ?contributions? to NGC have paid for a lunch or two in Sarasota. When I joined The Collector?s Society last fall, I was new to the ?graded, slabbed coin? thing. Basically, for the 40-something years I had leisurely collected coins, coins came in plastic flips, cardboard flips, or totally naked (ready to fill a spot in
MarkW

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Indiana Apostle's Journal

Final Piece to the Collection

Is it worth it? Well, I got to my mailbox today with eager anticipation of an arrival that would complete my first Registry Set. I was so excited to get that final coin. The coin that I knew I was paying too much for. But I needed that final piece of plastic slabbed silver to put the final touch on my first collection. I opened the package carefully and there it was. I booted up the computer and went to the Collectors' Society web site. My heart was racing. "This is it." I said to mys
Indiana Apostle

Indiana Apostle

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mitch's gerbil collection's Journal

IS COIN COLLECTING A HOBBY FOR GEEKS? DOES IT SERVE A PORPOSE? WHY DO I DO IT?

THEY CALL ME A GEEK, BELITTLE AND LAUGH AT ME @ WORK. I BRING NUMISMATIC NEWS TO WORK. THEY GOOF ON ME. I DON'T CARE. THEY BECOME INTRIGUED AS I EXPLAIN WHAT SOME ARE WORTH. THEY SAY "I have this coin, or that coin, at home. THE TALK CONTINUES & THE SEED IS PLANTED! ME: HI. MY NAME IS GERBILKEEPER AND I COLLECT COINS. GROUP: HELLO GERBILKEEPER!! ME: I'M A COINAHOLIC, AND I NEED THE HELP OF THE GROUP! (NO OFFENSE INTENDED TO THE 12 STEP PROGRAM) I consider myself a fairly normal person. I'
silver dollar's Journal

Susan B's coming into their own

the public has discovered the SBA's as a great set to collect and the price of SBA's are going up almost across the board. And some of the higher grades are becoing hard to find. Witness the 81-s and 99-d in higher grade MS. Makes me happy, as I love this series. I don't have the pictures of my set posted yet...but I will dean silver dollar
silver dollar

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mitch's gerbil collection's Journal

HOLY COW!!! MY 2005 WEST VIRGINIA STATE QUARTER MS 69 D MINT JUST WENT THRU THE ROOF!!!!!!!!!!!

DANG!!!! PCGS WEBSITE INDICATES JUMP FROM 1500.00 TO 2750.00! FOR WEST VIRGINIA QUARTER D MINT IN MS 69!!!!!!! I CAN'T QUITE REMEMBER WHEN OR FROM WHOM I GOT THIS COIN, BUT I WIGGED OUT WHEN SAW THAT THIS COIN JUMPED FROM 1500 BANNANAS TO 2750.00 OVERNIGHT! DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW WHY THERE WAS SUCH AN INCREASE IN VALUE? IT'S A REAL PRETTY COIN GRADED BY NGC. YOUR THOUGHTS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED GERBILKEEPER FROM RI
mitch's gerbil collection's Journal

1981-s type 2 PR70 DCAM PCGS HOLY GRAIL OF PROOF SBA'S

ONE HAMMERED ON TELETRADE FOR 3500.00!!!!!!! YOW! Hi! I'm GERBILKEEPER. Just wanted you guys to know that I'm new on the scene, and I'm just getting aquainted to this whole collector's society thing. (which I think is kind of cool) Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on my SUPERCOIN: 1981-S sba TYPE 2 pcgs pr70DCAM....WITH ONLY 34 PCGS POP., is it possible to get BIG BUCKS (at least pcgs price guide price) for this coin? I would assume that in order to assemble a perfect set of
Indiana Apostle's Journal

Time on web site.

First time putting coins on the Collector's Registry. Well, I spent about three hours putting coins on the Collector's Registry. Not that I had that many coins, but because I am not use to the way the web site operates. The website is very nice and I love to see the pictures that people have posted of their coins. Also a BIG THANK YOU to the individuals that responded to my first post about being the New Kid On The Block. I really appreciate the words of encouragement and hints, tips, et
Indiana Apostle

Indiana Apostle

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Bammer's Journal

Turnaround Time

27 days, less a holiday Received my second group of coins today (3/24). NGC received them on the 16th of February. So that means it took 27 business days, less one day for President's day holiday. So 26 business days, I used the Economy tier. So while this is longer than my first order took, I'm still very happy with the service. Of course, I'm a pretty mellow guy, maybe I'm too easy to please. :-) All kidding aside, I am happy with the service, and especailly with the prices, as the competi
Admiral Mike-migration's Journal

This coin is even cooler than my last...

... and older too. 528 years old. This coin is by far (528 years far ago to be exact) my coolest coin. Look at the date !! The second numeral is called a "lazy four" as it is laying on its side. 1478. Fourteen years BEFORE Columbus took his voyage across the pond, the official minters in Belgium minted this "Briquet". Unlike charcoal (spelled differently too), one could make purchases with this handy little piece of official silver coinage. The regular dating of coins didnt occur unti