With gold and silver pushing skyward what are collector to do?
As Gold and silver is moving upward and a new year of coin collecting coming quickly, what is one to do? The 2008 silver and gold eagles will be shipped from the mint around Jan 3. With prices of these coins high, what do you do? Wait and hope that prices are going lower or buy as soon as you can. I like the early release coins grades by NGC. If I wait and allow others to buy and have the coins graded I may be able to buy them lat
Look at what my wife got in the mail for free
My wife received this 2003 silver Eagle in the mail from a silver investment company. Wow I said thats cool. I buy about 200 to 300 of these silver eagles a year. Well wouldn't you know what was next. The company rep called. I answered the phone. I heard a great sale pitch about how silver is going to 30 dollars an ounce and how I should buy silver NOW while it is cheap. I had to played along. I asked well how much is the silver eagles that you s
I have too much time on my hands
I went to the local bank a obtained 50 bucks worth of the Jefferson dollars on the 16th. The Jefferson coins seemed to be of higher mint quality than the Washington coins. I took 10 of the best and sent them into NGC for grading. I think I may have one 67 in the group. Out of the rest my guess 2 ms66 and the 6 ms 65 and maybe one will come back damaged in a bodybag.
My my report back on the 56 president proofs coins that I sent in for grading.
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How do you feel?
I have just sent in to NGC, my 14 sets of President Proof coins for grading total of 56 coins. Before I boxed the coins up, I took a look at them under my 30-power microscope. I was quite disappointed in what I saw. I was more disappointed in what I did not see. In 4 of the coins I did not see a sharp clean strike. The coins looked more like someone at the mint took the President dollar die and hit it with a hammer to strike the coin. Other coins were rough around the edges
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