ready or not, here it comes
Well my fellow collectors, I did it. I swallowed hard, bit the bullet, and did the proverbial 360* slaaaam dunk...posterizing my bank account and bought the 10th anniversary platinum set from the mint yesterday! Holy Shiites and Sunnis! Will this be another huge anniversary set like the ASE's in 1995 and both the ASE's and AGE's of 2006? (silence! I'm praying). Only time will tell. I just hope NGC can hear my prayer and grade them both 70's when they hit the graders
you know who you are
I just wanted to say "thanks" to Tom of Palmdale, Ca. for getting me into this hobby again after living blissfully without it for forty plus years. Through what started as casual conversations on breaks, reminiscing how my older brother and I collected pennies as kids, he got me thinking about getting back into it. With Tom's three generations of collection experience (imagine what's in the vault) and advice, he got me going with purchasing (innocently enough) a 2006 silve
please Santa, I've been good this year (kinda)
Why is it when we get a little older (remember the Hudson?... not the river....the CAR!) we can't write Santa a letter and ask for something special? Well, this year I decided to try it and see if he would read my letter and wrap up a beautiful old coin for me. So I composed a very detailed letter, reminding him that I hadn't bothered him for years, but had remained a believer and a good citizen. I know it will come, I just know it will! I have f
Ebay, Curse You! (just kidding....I think)
Can't get enough of searching for those "great buys". Hours and hours without noticing the time, page after page rolling away like waves leave with the tide, scrolling up and down, a roller coaster ride with my mouse, I clearly focus in on an interesting coin, then tumble, jump, and spring to another like an acrobatic coin collector on a trampoline while juggling two or three ads simultaneously. (All right, maybe that's going too far!) This coin coll
buried treasure!
I recently purchased a 1999 silver proof complete 9 coin set in ngc proof 69 on ebay "buy it now" for $319. not a bad deal, eh? but it gets better....buried in the description page of the listing, not the title page that most buyers look at, the seller casually mentioned that the whole set was pf 69, except the connecticut quarter which was a proof 70! It's a beauty! So is the rest of the set! As a new collector I was shocked this set and it's buried treasure came into my ha
your stuff?
A follow up to my last journal entry...I'd love to hear other people's stories of the special finds they've come across in their collecting history. I'm new at collecting, and although I am an NGC member, I use a common, free e-mail address so I can't join the NGC forum and contribute or ask dumb questions of those members, so I'll have to rely on you all to contribute your insights and experiences in the collector journals you write. I'd really appreciate this interaction while I
reading threads
I was reading some of the threads, and one caught my eye in particular. It was talking about NGC allowing open boxed 20th anniversary sets and the gold and silver 20th anniversary sets that were opened (not mint sealed) to be graded and designated with the black label. If this is true, there will be a marked shift in the values assigned to these coins as the population increases of these so-designated coins...and the people trying to sell mint sealed boxes won't be able to goug
