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What A Wonderful Experience! Continued......

A while ago I wrote about a gentleman that needed some help with cataloging his coins so that he could sell them.... Well, we are finished and they were shipped to the auction company today. This guy had (at least to me) some very special coins. It's not very often that someone like me has the opportunity to handle some early American Draped Bust coins without someone watching me very closely to make sure that his coins aren't going to disappear or worse. I don't blame them, after all these ar
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Three Coins Back From NGC !

I did better than I thought I would and the turnaround was great! The invoice date for these two submissions was May 15th and they were finalized and shipped on May 22nd! That's probably the best turn around time that I've had for an Earlybird submission! Way to go NGC! I sent in three coins, two to get graded and one for a crossover. I wasn't sure that any of them would make it through but two did. The one that didn't was the ANACS crossover. (Anyone surprised?!) The two that did make it w
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To Metal 9 ( or anyone else that may be interested :)

Answers to a Couple of your questions. Something to try to help with your pictures and your member contact question. I am not the greatest with taking and posting pictures but I'm learning. I'm not sure if this will work with a scanner but it works pretty well with digital cameras. You can try getting a picture editing program. I use "Adobe Photoshop Album". After the pictures are loaded in to your computer then transfer them to the Photoshop program. After you have them in the photoshop you c
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RE: Flea Market

I've known a couple of people that have set up in Flea Markets in the past. One of them sets up on a regular basis now. From what they tell me and from what I have seen, the clientele that frequent the Flea Markets are not the type of people that will be willing to spend alot of money on "scarce or rare" coins. They will be the type that are not very knowledgeable or are looking for a bargain. The guy that sets up regularly around here buys all of the common date,low grade Morgan dollars that
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7 coins back from NGC, 3 more off to NGC and 10 to NCS

I didn't do too bad on the one's that I got back.....Definitely not what I expected. Two were no-grades. The other five graded and didn't have any problems. This is what is surprising to me. One of the ones that didn't make it I thought for sure that it would grade and two of the ones that did grade I thought would be body bagged without question. This just reinforces that I am not as adept in the "Art" of grading that I would like to be. The ones that did grade were an 1894-S Morgan that grad
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Does anyone know much about Bust Quarters?

I went to the coin shop a few days ago. I got there shortly after he purchased some items from a "walk in" and I went to the coin shop a few days ago. I got there shortly after he purchased some items from a "walk in" and as he usually does he pulled out some of the more interesting coins that he had recently acquired. Among them was this Bust Quarter. It is dated 1819 and appears to have a distinctly repunched denomination on the reverse. Early American/Bust coins are not my forte and I don
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Re: Imperfect Art of Grading

Grading is definitely an imperfect art. Sometimes I wonder how much of an artist that I am. I've gone back and forth with my successes and failures. Sometimes I do very well and sometimes I feel like I couldn't get a coin to grade if my life depended on it. I've submitted quite a few coins for crossovers from several grading companies with only two successes. One was an ANACS coin that didn't upgrade but it did cross. The other wasn't even a crossover--it was a designation review for a full
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Re: Realistic Coin Values

Ultimately what it all boils down to is that something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it and that is certainly true for coins and coin collectors. Like it or not we have all got to pay attention to the value of a coin because sooner or later all of us are either going to buy one or sell one (or more). Otherwise there would not be such great price differences between coins with similar mintages and grades(in many cases). There are extenuating circumstances that may have c
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RE. 2006 Registry Awards

Your not alone. I seemed to have missed something also. I haven't been able to find out anything about the winners for the Signature Sets either. I would like to think that my Signature Set is at least worthy of consideration too. I happen to be quite fond of it, but I could be a little prejudiced about it:) This is an 1882 Shield Nickel graded MS-65 from the Richmond Collection. 1882 5 CEN
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What a Wonderful Experience!

Last night I went to the monthly meeting of my local coin club and I met a gentleman that, some years ago, had inherited some coins from his grandfather. He knows almost nothing about coins and was looking for someone to help sort and catalog what he has. I told him that I would be happy to help him and boy am I glad that I did! Now you have to remember that I am a man of somewhat limited means financially so I don't have the opportunity to see coins like these very often. I certainly can't af
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I Found Another VAM Today!

Let it not be said that the only place that I buy coins is on eBay. I found another Vam today! It's a duplicate, but I think that it may grade a little better than the one that I have in my set. It's a 1924 VAM 2 Doubled Reverse Peace Dollar. I got it out of my local coin dealers common box. He doesn't take the time to search through them for varieties when he buys them so I have a perfect opportunity to find that "diamond in th ruff". This is the third one that I have pulled out of his common
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Things that make you go Hmmmm

If coin collecting is not an addiction then If coin collecting is not an addiction then why do they call the people that sell them "Dealers"? If it is an addiction when are they going to start forming local chapters of CCA ? (Coin Collectors Anonymous) or NA (Numistmatists Anonymous) If having this much fun is wrong, I don't want to be right. Below is another of my better eBay purchases. I bought it raw for $108.00.   1934-S $1
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Is it Luck or something else?

My local coin dealer says that I'm lucky for getting some of the good buys that I have gotten on eBay. Luck is involved but that's not all there is to it. My local "Dealer" and his mentor (the real owner) have attemted purchasing coins on eBay and have had less than satisfactory results. Me--I've done rather well. I spend alot of time watching and studying the coins that I am considering buying and I've seen and heard some of the horror stories that have happened. Yes, I have made some poor pu
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RE: A Question--A comment--and a wish

Take a look at my Signature Set "Mike's Pedigrees". It's got a little write up about LaVere Redfield as well as a few other of the more prominent pedigrees of our time. And if you get a chance, shoot me an email and tell me what you think of it. Happy Holidays to all. MikeThis is my Redfield Dollar.1891-S Red
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I Just Found an Originall Bank Roll of 1943 Steel Cents!

I went by my local Coin Dealer today just for a visit and when I got there he was going through a recent purchase. As I started nosing around and going through what he had just purchased (generally making a pest of myself)there was a roll of pennies that the seller/original owner had purchased from the bank on April 15th, 1943. I know this because he wrote the date that he purchased it on the paper roll. This roll hasn't seen the light of day for over 60 years! I didn't think there were any Or
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RE. easier first

By no means am I happy with the way that NGC grades all of the time. But, with that being said, I think that they do a good job overall. Yes, I've had some coins bodybagged that I think should have been slabbed but I've also had some coins slabbed that I thought would get "bagged" for sure. The one thing that I have learned through all of my experiences with getting coins graded is to ask myself "why did they do this" before I jump to the conclusion that these people are nuts and haven't go
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RE: TIME TO MOVE ON

When I was younger I thought very much the same thing. I was starting out a family and I had no time for coins. My fiance', who was wise beyond her years, told me not to sell it. She told me that I would regret getting rid of it in later years. When I was younger I thought very much the same thing. I was starting out a family and I had no time for coins. My fiance', who was wise beyond her years, told me not to sell it. She told me that I would regret getting rid of it in later years. She was
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