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NGC Journals

MarkW's Journal

One Road Completed

Another Road Grows Smoother THEN Grows Potholes The completed road is actually one leg of the journey through the completion of my Morgan dollar set. The final piece to my GSA Carson City Morgan dollar set is on its way. The 1879-CC is the ?King? of this set. Only 4100 79-CC?s were sold in the GSA auctions of 1972-1974. Two varieties exist, the Clear CC and the Capped Die CC. I didn?t know when, or even if, I?d find one on which I would be willing to spend a small fortune. Done, now I?m
MarkW

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Colt45's Journal

NGC Registry Award

Top Ranked Set I just got my first Award Certificate from the NGC Registry. It's for the top ranked set in the NGC registry (1878 Proof Set) for 2005. This is just terrific! I didn't even know that NGC did this. What a privilege and an honor. Makes me want to improve the set this year. Great service and site here!
Colt45

Colt45

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EE Tate's Journal

What is Quality Recognition?

AN AWARD ON THE WALL, RATES ... I just got my certificates for winning several catagories of mint sets for 2005. Most impressive. While I acknowledge that I won with low percentage of completion on the sets, its really great to have something to display for my efforts. My goal in the coming year is to improve the sets and make the competition fun and a challenge for each of the participants. The coins are available and, while price may be a restraint, I plan to upgrade and expand the sets
EE Tate

EE Tate

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Admiral Mike-migration's Journal

Let's have some fun with turnaround times...

thats better than being grumpy about it...right ?? I was thinking (yes... I know, I am not supposed to think as wierd things happen..) lets have some fun with NGC's turnaround times. lots of us have grumbled a time or two about those long waits, myself included. I submitted an order last week and it was received today. Lets have a contest to see who comes the closest to how long it takes to get the coins out of NGC. You need some basic info. Order was for crossover service, economy level. Sta
Admiral Mike-migration

Admiral Mike-migration

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Wayne C's Journal

Coin bag/bankers bag

Lady who has her fathers old silver dollars in a bankers zip type bag...... I met a man in Taylor City NH, just outside of Province Lake - also known as ParsonField. I was in his little general store buying a soda and a candy bar. The owner, he was in his late 70s then, was ringing up my purchase when I noticed a coinage magazine on the shelf behind him. I struck up a conversation about coins with him and at age 70 he was sharp as a tack. He said, you won't find any 32 s quarters around here o
Wayne C

Wayne C

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kimocoins-migration's Journal

A Grading Odyssey With a Tragic Ending

A true story of a coin that started as 58, then to bodybag, 62, 63, 63PQ, 64 and, alas, 61. This is a true story of what was once an absolutely gorgeous 1821 bust half: champagne gold with silvery electric blue, magenta, and green toning about peripheries and changing to light golden centers -balanced on both sides; lustrous w/full cartwheel, no discernible marks, no wear - even the clasp was well-struck. I bought it July, 2001, for MS62 money even though it was graded as AU58 by PCGS (old P
kimocoins-migration

kimocoins-migration

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kimocoins-migration's Journal

MS/PR 70 - Perfect Blemishes

Would you pay top dollar for a diamond with a flaw/inclusion that is incorrectly labeled as a D flawless? I doubt if there are very many coin collectors who would pay top dollar for a D flawless diamond that they, themselves, can see an inclusion with a 5x loupe. So why would such a person turn around and pay top dollar for a flawed coin that is labeled flawless - as in MS or PR 70? I, too, decided I wanted to own some "flawless" coins in the form of mint and proof state quarter sets. Fro
kimocoins-migration

kimocoins-migration

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Yevrah1's Journal

Snow? What snow?

Here in Colorado, it's......... sunny and up to 50 degrees. Tomorrow even warmer. Have to go to the mountains to see much snow. Now, on to photograph my new acquisitions to post here.
Yevrah1

Yevrah1

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Cheney's Journal

NGC vs. PCGS

Hands Down NGC wins I live a few miles away from PCGS, so it is convenient to go to PCGS to drop off coins, their free slab boxes with every order are nice, thier free grading of the coin of the quarter is okay, but other than that NGC wins hands down. NGC allows PCGS coins on their registry. PCGS is an exclusive snob. PCGS grades far too hard, NGC is fair. I've broke out two MS67 pennies from NGC slabs and sent them to PCGS to experiment, they didn't even make MS65. I recently submitte
Cheney

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pack ratt's Journal

Looking for help

Coins, comics, jfk, magic cards I'm 22 and I've been a packrat all my life. It's from my father's side... I'm selling most of what I've collected to build a recording studio, and I need help figuring out what everything is worth. If you're knowledgable about foreign coins and paper money, I've got that. If you're knowledgable about Magic The Gathering cards, I've got that. I've also got Star Wars CCG cards, a JFK poster from way back in the day, punisher comic books, a bunch of other c
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kbr1315-migration's Journal

Re:...Let's Broaden the Base...

I have to strongly disagree I have to disagree with ANACS or ICG being added to the registry because their grading techniques just do not measure up with PCGS and NGC. I think if they add these two companies to the registry we would have people next time wanting some other named company like capital coin grading company to come in also (and we all know they just look at it with naked eye and then throw a dart to see whether it will grade MS-66 or higher no matter how it looks), I mean where do
Bryan1315

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Admiral Mike-migration's Journal

Let's Broaden the Base...

... and add Anacs and ICG. I expect that this will certainly open up a very large can of worms but what the heck, this forum is supposed to get you thinking about coins. I think most of us will agree that the number 3 and number 4 third party graders are ICG and Anacs (though maybe not in that order) but the truth is, they are all (the top 4) very good. The "Registry" was designed to bring out the very best coins. Not too long ago when we were all talking about PCGS' exclusivity in their re
Admiral Mike-migration

Admiral Mike-migration

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Wissahickon Collection's Journal

"READ" THE BOOK; BEFORE YOU BUY THE COIN

"More Surprises With New Purchase: 1873-S Dime." A couple of new purchases arrived today. They are both Seated Liberty coinage, that I have been impatiently awaiting for 7 days. In the interim, I have been reading through some reference materials about varieties of Seated Dimes and Half-Dimes. One specific coin (1873-S Arrows Dime) has a couple of varieties that piqued my interest. Brian Greer details type 101: Obv-repunched "18"/ Rev- Small, thin "S". Type 102: Rev-Small, block "S" (Lar
Wissahickon Collection

Wissahickon Collection

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kimocoins-migration's Journal

Response to Query about Coin Insurance

Are you aware of the ANA-endorsed Coin Insurance offered in association with Hugh Wood Inc.? Someone asked about a good coin insurance program and I answered via member contact. Got to thinking maybe there are others who would like the information below. Hugh Wood Inc., 45 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 Tel: 1-888-277-6495 ANA@hughwood.com Offers an ANA-endorsed coin insurance program, insurer is AXA ART INSURANCE CORPORATION. I elected the GOLD option, coverage is $170,000 - only h
kimocoins-migration

kimocoins-migration

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Skeester's Journal

Understanding turn around time

Follow up from yesterdays E-mail Fellow collectors, I do understand NGC getting swamped with submissions. I do understand that it's now going to take longer. I can also understand the price increase because of the aforementioned. Yes, NGC is a great coin grader. If you want the service, your gonna pay for it. If you want to service, your gonna wait for it. I really don't have a problem waiting an extra week, but it still sticks in my head that I could of had my submissions a week ago, li
Skeester

Skeester

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Allan C Ong's Journal

Turnaround Times

I think that volume is the magic word... ... especially with Modern and Early Bird. They can hire more world class graders, but I think it boils down to the volume of submissions coming in. I mean, I'd be lying if I said that I don't check my status every day to see if they've come out yet. 500 world class graders and probably hundreds, maybe even thousands of submissions per day (NGC also accepts foreign submissions, remember?) probably still can't get it all done unless maybe you force th
Allan C Ong

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oneyedmark's Journal

Ahoy matey!

My ships hold is not full yet. I have registered a new Signature SET, called Shipwreck coins. When my coins are recovered please feel free to view them.   Oneyedmark
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hardin2413's Journal

What, ultimately, does a few days matter???

Play with your family, go out to dinner, relax a little... I send stuff in to NGC frequently, and i too eagerly wait to see what my mod comms rate--i just got 28 back, and 2 were 70UCs, the time before that i had five ms70s out of 20. both times NGC was about a week or so longer than they should have been, once even a week more than the estimated turnaround time. i each morning and evening i'd check their status, and find out that they were still in the system....but then, when they were don
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gpnyc1's Journal

My 2? on turnaround times...

I do not want NGC to sacrifice quality for timeliness. Lets start off by saying that, yes, I would like to get my submissions back faster just like anyone else. Yet I for one would rather wait an extra week if the alternative would be an inferior product. NGC has good QC (yes they make mistakes but they are few and far between) but to increase the speed of the "production line" would have a detrimental effect on quality. That is a given and is beyond dispute. Look at it this way, you coul
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The Lovvorn Collection's Journal

A milestone for my Peace $ set...

6 more to go... I have added one more MS65 coin to my Peace $ set (1927 S), leaving only 6 more to go in my quest to have MS65 minimum grades for all coins. Also, the average grade for the set has reached 65.0 for the first time, which is a significant achievement to me. And finally, this coin replaces the last one in the set that was in a PCGS holder. When I put the set on public display, I really appreciate having all issues in the same holders. The toughest 2 remaining upgrades will of c
The Lovvorn Collection

The Lovvorn Collection

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Reflections spurned by another journal entry

More on the cool site this is

I'm still lovin it but...... I'm still lovin it but Wednesday night I was staying up much too late messin with my coins and trying to make some sense of the whole mess when, in a fit of extreme coordination, I turned and knocked my laptop off of the desk. 30 minutes later it stopped working, much to my dismay. Now, I must share the desktop with my wife who is employed and I am going through withdrawal I am utilizing the down time by organizing, cataloging, culling, and deciding what I am no
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