Lincoln Birth and Childhood NGC graded! Then Some Special NGC slabbed Windy City Monster Box Hoard American Silver Eagles Purchased!

Good Morning to Everyone and I hope your having a great day, as I know I am as a collector in this hard time, still being able to add to my collection and doing so happily.

First off I Would Like to address some of the UHR Journals I have been reading, does anyone read the mints website? Here is what they have wrote (Which I believe more then a person that picks up the phone and places orders all day, Since I have never really got correct information besides what was printed on the screen in front of them that I Could access and Verify just as easily as them...)

The United States Mint is pleased to announce that we will resume shipping the 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin during the week of February 22, 2009. However, because of production problems with the 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin Companion Book, you may receive only the COIN and presentation box at this time. If you are a customer who receives the COIN without the Companion Book, we will ship the Companion Book to you, at no extra charge, when it becomes available. For information on how this may affect the return of the product if you are not satisfied, please see FAQ #210.

Second I received today the First NGC 2009 First Day of Issue MS66 Lincoln Childhood and Birth coin slabbed, It looks very nice and I cannot wait for the other 3 to come out. I Took a plane on February 11th to watch the lincoln Ceremony and stood in line with about 400-500 other people(Could have been more like 500-1000 there were sooooooo many people just a guess...) to exchange Bills for $25 Boxes or rolls of the First new 2009 Lincoln cent. We got up to our turn in line and my son went first, he purchased 5 boxes and I Decided to purchase 6 to make it 11 boxes, my son had a bewildered look upon his face. We quickly made our way back to the car after what seemed like a long day already, we made back to the hotel room( Which was a very nice suite, not a 2 star hotel room with beds infested with god only knows what) and carried all the boxes up 3 floors and into our bedroom, my son basically fumbling all the boxes onto the first bed he came to( Since he was carrying 8 boxes of the 11, He insisted since my bad back and old age, I didn't argue Him being 19 years young ).

We arranged all the boxes in a line on the bed, examining the boxes, inspection numbers and the beautiful luster shining back upon us threw the holes where each roll sat upright. I then said to my son "So Which box"? He was already holding one in particular in his hand and quickly replied "This one"! He opened the box and started tossing each roll on the next bed (Where i was sitting) and the search began, One roll after another, carefully tearing the rolls open and using gloves to handle every precise coin. He came across a coin that he thought looked better then all the rest and he stated " I bet you a million dollars this coin is a ms65", So we labled the coin and put it away in a flip, later to be sent into NGC and Come back an Astonishing MS66(The million dollars is still not been paid....)!

Next on the agenda is the Windy City Monster Box Hoard Silver American Eagles Graded ms69, We ran across a great price for the set from 1986 to 2000 for as little as $20-$25 each coin! So we got a killer deal on those and they should be here as early as monday next week( Since we are ranked 84th currently we should move up about 30 spots if not higher), We were just happy to add some of the WCMBH SAE into our colletion. My MS SAE Collection is almost complete to date( only been working on for 2-3 months besides purchasing the past 3 years from the mint) and then I will start to finish the PF set( besides that monster of a 95-w, Pricing at $3500 for a pf69 and seen $15,000 for a PF70, Which i will eventually add atleast a 69 into the set!) along with my modern commems to date.

Also I just paid for and sent out the 100 Abraham Lincoln PF and the 100 Abraham Lincoln MS Coins to be graded and encapsulated by NGC about 48 hours ago now, so NGC should be receiving them by Friday since they were sent USPS priority Box mail with a Huge Insurance Coverage( Just incase, you never know when your package is the one that has difficulties) but it will be worth it in the end. I will be selling probably about 80 of these sets and holding onto 20 depending on price and grades at the time I get them back( I sent them in modern, so it could be anywhere from 12-15 days....), But the last couple I sent in the last few months have been a matter of a day in each place and being sent back within 4-6 days( 3 Kuddos to NGC).

We also sent in about 10 other Modern Silver Dollar Commems to be graded and encapsulated, can't wait to see all these grades, its gonna be better then Christmas morning!

Well that's all for this weeks Journal, I hope you have all had as much fun reading it as I am collecting and living the experience and living to write about it. I will continue to write about my experience and findings and of course amazing coins to be added into the near future and I hope you all do the same Because I enjoy reading about your coin collecting(Since some of the top collectors known write and come here).

As for next week my son starts a new job at a warehouse making glass windows for the installers to put into the homes the company builds and remanufactures, so in the roughest of times and the economy the worst it has been in decades, Im glade to see him fight his way threw all of it and work his way to the top not just making minimum wage, but double that( $17.50 a hour), 40 hours a week and its a guaranteed long term job. (So very proud as a father).

happy Collecting and Best of luck in these hard times with job losses at the record high each day and obama sticking us trillions of dollars more in debt for our future generations to sort out and fix what damage we cause. I hope You all have read this long journal I enjoyed very much spending a couple hours of my morning writing.

Good day and God Bless,

Rick.S