Thunaer's Journal

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New arrival in German Occupation

The controversy over PCGS coins removal from World sets caused some delay in posting this Journal. But in the end NGC/PCGS/ICG/Anacs etc or simply raw coin as it was minted, the coin make core of a hobby. So, here's the core of my interests lately, German occupation coinage, a small set, total of 6 coins: 4 zinc (mentioned in one of previous journals), 1 pure steel/iron and one, nickel plated iron coin - the first 2012's graded arrival. This coin Is NGC MS 61, 50 groszy german occupation, Kr
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So... We are but a money input to NGC after all

NGC's angle on collectors market has always been it's community side. Yesterday they tore down the image that was worked on hard and long.... When You look at it, PCGS's coins removal from sets has been announced, and what happened? It was protested, ppl spoke out against it, and finally it was utterly ignored... But potential harm... oh man, I mean, ppl (my wretched self influded) started to think not only about NGC's policy, but "what's the point" of grading itself. Sorry folks, but corp
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Green Lizard

This one came in just yesterday. In one of my previous Journals I have said that 2Z commemorative strikes have "Animals of the World" series. Silver 20Z have the same series which is parallel, same subject, not always same design. This one's my first of that series graded by NGC, enjoy! Happy collecting! Thunaer To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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Coinage metals with zinc in focus

Many of us have copper coinage, and it is easy to see, that despite copper's rating as low to moderate chemical activity, most old copper coins are BN or RB, and RD ones are much sought for. With gold or silver coinage, professional conservation can do miracles, that's why we can see specimens looking like they left mint just hours ago and not 100-150 years ago. With copper NCS can surely remove all contaminants but can't reverse the flow of time, and if the coin is brown, it will remain so,
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One voice counts!

Sometimes, when we are faced with a corporation, we tend to wonder, "I'm just one man, does my opinion matter to them?". For NGC that's certainly the case! Recent acquisition of mine, as seen in the picture below, had some issues with database and that's how it began... 4 (working)days ago I requested the data to be repaired, and added to it's appropriate set "Republic of Poland, 2 Zlote, 1994-Date, Complete Set". Somewhere along the line it hit me... those coins come in 2 types, Comme
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NGC grading in Poland..

Recent new arrivals gave me a pause to think about the grading... Originally I wanted to cover both arrivals and grading issues in this journal, but let's take it one step at a time. Here, in Poland we have only one authorized dealer, and with about ten thousand miles of red tape involved with sending coins 50 or more years old abroad by private person (company/institution is not so much bound in red tape...) it makes it impractical to make direct submission... Most of You will probably cl
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Newest arrival 2 Zlote

Animals of the world series continues. My somewhat small collection of NGC graded 2Zlote Polish coins just received a newest addition, 1998 2z, Toad. I tried to keep this one brief but.. well see for Yourself. I hope You like it. Larger photo is available from set view (200KB limit there, 75KB here). In my last journal I have shown the 2001 2Zlote Butterfly, today a few words about the series. Since 1996 aside standard circulation 2Zlote coins, there are issued semi-circulation 2 Zl
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Butterfly's dream

Patience pays off in coin collecting. This is my first journal and I would like to say "hello" to all fellow coin collectors. For months I've been searching for a decent specimen of Polish 2001 2 Zlote Butterfly minted in Nordic Gold... with no success. But recently the fortune smiled at me, not only did I find decent specimen, I got one graded MS 65, best grade assigned to that coin by NGC so far. NGC has graded only 2 Butterfly's MS 65. As most times in coin collecting the patience paid
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