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NGC Journals

danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 17 of 20

My Ten Commandments for Buying Coins on EBAY 95% of the coins I buy are off EBAY. Below are the 10 Commandments I follow: 1. Thou shalt not bid on auctions from a seller with less than a 99.8% positive feedback rating. 2. Thou shalt read the description of the coin carefully.   (Before I made this a commandment I purchased a slabbed coin and when I received it, the holder had a 1" crack in it. I was going to send it back but when I read the description, the crack was mentioned. Lesson l
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walnutto

Latest Submission - Mark Twain

My best so far I had ordered 20 proofs and 20 U.C. from the Mint the very first day offered. The Proofs were not high quality so I was only able to submit 3 of them. I am pleased with this result since the previous two submissions was a disappoinment. I was starting to think my eyes were starting to fail me. 001 2016 P MARK TWAIN S$1 PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO 002 2016 P MARK TWAIN S$1 PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO 003 2016 P MARK TWAIN S$1 PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO 004 2016 P MARK TWAIN S$1
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 16 of 20

Submission #1- In the Books I was so excited to receive back my first submission to NGC. It took several hours for me to scan all of the bar codes into the NGC app and then take four screens shots of each coin. Fortunately, I had created a custom set of all of the coins submitted using the "Raw" designation. They were all in one location. All I needed to do was redefine the coin by putting in the certification number. I then replaced the stock photos I had used with the actual photos. I wa
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jackson64's Journal

Still Sailing Along

Haven't posted a new "sailing ship" coin for a while. It's been several years since I wrote about or posted any photos of my sailing ship coins purchases. I still add to the collection although it has also been years since I stopped maintain my "High Seas" ship coin collection in the Signature series. In fact, it is hard to believe that the High Seas set is appx 10 years old since it won "Most Creative Signature Set"--it has even been a few years since they changed the names to Custom Sets.
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 15 of 20

Trying to Master the "My Collection" Database For the past few months I have been trying to master the "My Collection" database. I spend several hours each week entering both my graded and raw coins. I like being to have the reports that I can produce. I have run across several snafus along the way and have had to improvise. 1. Under "Item Description", I have not figured out what the Catalog Number field is all about. 2. Since I collect coins with low mintages, I wish there was a field
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Followers and Following

The GOLDEN Ike

golden memories rekindled Friends, As I had some extra time today to enjoy the coins in my sets I noticed many missing pics. Catching up on Lincolns, Jeffersons, Washingtons, Roosevelts, and Ikes pictures brought back some memories as to when I found them. I had to stop when I got to the Ike in the pic below as I never entered pics after I had it graded and forgot just how beautiful toned it was. Still some pics to add today if I feel up to it but here is todays special. My Golden 1976 I
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 14 of 20

Innovative Mint Packaging I find all of the new and innovative mint packaging interesting. What will they come up with next? I realize that some are gimmicks but like with all products on the market, these are marketing strategies. These are just a very few examples of recent purchases I have made with interesting packaging including a coin that comes in a matryoshka doll, one that is 3D and comes with 3D glasses, heart-shaped boxes and boxes with swinging wooden lids. To see old commen
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NASF Firefighter

Purchases from fellow Society member

Eagles-R-it help add to my collection Hi everyone, Recently I made a purchase of two coins from Eagles-R-it to add to my modern commemorative collection. It was a great experience and a very smooth transaction and I am very happy to add the 1991 USO and Korean War proofs to my collection. Thanks again Eagles-R-it! Jeffrey To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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Scott A's Journal

Pedigree Corrected By NGC

Double Pedigree Several years ago I submitted this set of 1887 Belgian Congo silver coins that I purchased in a Stacks Auction, Lot 1479 on 2/17/1999. When I submitted the coins I put a bracket on the submission form to encompass all four coins with the pedigree for ex. Goodman and ex. Hall. Unfortunately NGC didn't notice the bracket and ended up putting Goodman on one of the coin and Hall on another coin and nothing on the other two coins. I intended on having this corrected over the yea
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Jason Feldman's Journal

Seated dimes

I am just about done with seated dimes for now. Since starting this registry set a decade ago I worked to obtain some of the nicest examples of seated dimes that I could find. With the recent addition of the 1844 MS 66 coin there is little more left to upgrade. I will therefore be focusing my sights on a collection of killer Type coins. To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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TMCGRADY's Journal

Top 10 Rarest 1oz BU libertad List

Here is how i rank the top 10 most difficult 1 OZ BU libertads to find based off my experience in collecting them as well as talking to other extremely knowledgeable collectors. Although some are rare like the 1998 with a mintage of just 67k, it is pretty easy to find but it's not scarce. Other coins with mintages of over 1 million can be be very scarce to find hence making them rare as well like the 1988 or 1989. The 1989 is extremely undervalued and finding a nice one in MS67 or MS68 is very r
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 13 of 20

Time to Replenish After selling my 1/2 oz gold Pandas, I felt the need to replace the 14 1/2 ozs of gold, especially since the price was so low. I considered quite a few replacement possibilities such as the Canadian Maple Leaf, Australian Kangaroo, etc. While trying to decide I ran across some gold bars that I really fell in love with- the PAMP Lunar Series. Because the series started four years earlier, I purchased the 2012 Dragon, 2013 Snake, the 2014 Horse and the 2015 Goat (pictured bel
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 12 of 20

WHO'S NUTS??? Last April I discovered the NGC website and I decided to check the value of my Chinese Panda coins. I was in shock to discover that the half ounce gold 1995 Panda that I had paid $404.00 for was selling for $7200.00 and many others were selling in the thousands of dollars. I thought to myself, are these people nuts? It's only 1/2 ounce oz gold and only 20 years old. I decided I would be nuts not to sell. I sold all 29 years of my 1/2 ounce Pandas (keeping the 1 oz, 1/4 oz, 1/10 o
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CaptBrian's Journal

COIN COLLEGE

Go for the gold (and silver) COIN COLLEGE. TANGIBLE, DIVERSIFIED, PROTECTION GO FOR THE GOLD (& SILVER*) With all the contrasting investments available, how does one settle on a particular component of available choices? Some of the choices may be physical bullion, being that coins, bars or even a paper investment. There are also many paper investments such as ETF's, stock in mining companies, futures (like a farmer or speculator) and so on. Rare coins, both raw and more. There are
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 11 of 20

The Good, The Bad???, and The Ugly Last month I joined as a paid NGC member. I have so many coins in their original mint packaging that are taking up so much space and are hard to organize. I immediately prepared a shipment of 26 of my coins to be graded. THE GOOD- I got word today that my graded coins have been shipped back to me and I will soon be able to add them to my phone app to share with my family. THE BAD??- I am not sure if this is bad because my expectations may have been too hi
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Texan's Coins's Journal

My Goal For 2017

The F.U.N. convention! I have been talking about going to the FUN convention fod a few years, but have never pulled the trigger on it. I have set a do or die goal of attending the FUN convention in 2017. I have created a separate account for svings for it. I would like to bring a decent amount of cash to be able to do some shopping while I am down there. However, my main focus will be attending the auctions, classes, seminars, etc. In addition, I have two cousins who live in FL, so i will
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 10 of 20

Discovering the NGC App I was very excited last Spring to discover the NGC app for my iPhone. It was probably designed for a different purpose but this is what I use it for. Every time I receive a slabbed coin I scan the bar code with my phone. Our family has a 35+ year tradition of going to breakfast every Sunday morning. Every week those attending want to see my new coin acquisitions for the week. It is great to bring up the app on my phone and show them the new photos. Kind of like having
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 9 of 20

Buying Frenzy About a year ago I went a different direction with my coin collecting- World Coins. I was very much intrigued with all of the new colored, enameled, 3D, holograms, jeweled, odd-shaped, stained glass, etc. coins available. I really like the Niue, Canadian, Cook Islands and Australia coins. I rarely buy any that have a mintage of more than 3000 and many of the ones I have purchased have a mintage of less than 1000. Some of my purchases have been NGC graded but many are raw. I h
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 8 of 20

Combining Hobbies I decided in 2011 to start collecting the America the Beautiful 5 oz series. I had looked at the advanced list of 56 coins and discovered that I had been to about 70% of the places on the list. I thought it would be fun to combine photos of the coins with my trip experience and try to visit the other 30% of the places I had not been. Since the series had started the year before, I needed to catch up and buy the five 2010 coins and decided to buy NGC certified. I was in shoc
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Dennis B-migration's Journal

When Perfect Just Isn't Good Enough

Just another twist in this great hobby! The last piece of the puzzle finally arrived in the mail this week. It was the last coin I needed to complete my 21st Century Type Set! I now have a 100 percent complete type set. While this is a nice personal accomplishment, it certainly doesn't stack up to completing a 20th Century, a 19th Century or a Master Type Set. This is only the fifth complete registry set I have managed to put together. Completing registry sets on a tight budget is no easy task
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TMCGRADY's Journal

1988 DDR Libertad, graded MS67, score....

What a pleasant surprise, now the highest known grade. So far, this new 1988 DDR variety has 9 known and graded in all between PCGS and NGC. Until now the highest grade was 1 in MS66 by PCGS while others came in at MS64 and MS65. I received this coin raw from another libeterad collector friend who actually discovered the variety and submitted it for grading to NGC. We agreed that we would only agree to a price once it was graded. Having it come back as an MS67 was a nice surprise but then i re
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danny0603's Journal

My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 7 of 20

Cashing In When 2011 rolled around I was dismayed at the price I was going to have to pay for my Chinese Panda set and was told that gold and silver prices were way up. I had never really paid attention to these prices. I decided that after 14 years of storing and toting the heavy "Secret Collection" from part 3 that maybe I would sell. I found a place in my city that had good Google reviews and went to get an estimate. I was shocked to find that I would be given 28 times face. I will never
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TMCGRADY's Journal

Are There More New Libertad Varieties Undescoverd?

3 new libertad varieties have been discovered in the past year. The libertad series began in 1982 and with the Panda series, its the longest running sovereign bullion program in the world. While most people take their purchases and just store them away wothout looking at them we have missed 3 huge varieties over the past 34 years. Early last year Dan from Connecticut discovered the 1999 mule where someone else took credit and a nice article was written in coin world magazine about it. Two
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