Oh, and by the way, who ever is still trying to hang on to a coin that's been sold for a week now, do me a favor and delete it from your set. I just got this 1941-D in the mail today but I've owned it over a week. It's a 1st generation PCGS "Rattler Mercury dime graded MS-66 FB.

I don't understand why people hang onto coins they don't own. I would bet big money that there are many here, that have coins in their registered sets, that they don't own any more, and probably a lot of coins that guys have here in their sets, they HAVE NEVER OWNED. It doesn't make you look like anything but a greedy dishonest insufficiently_thoughtful_person. Just get em the hell out. I'm way past sick and tired of this. Come on, really, get friggin honest how bout it.... NOW... I feel much better...Greetings Collectors.One final time on this "OGH" subject. And yea I know. It's too damn long, and surprise! I'm still not finished with this post. But, as I said in a previous post, I bought my very first slabbed coins in 1990. I don't think I'd ever seen a slabbed coin until that time. Anacs, the oldest of the 3rd party graders, had been out several years by the time I held my first slabbed coin in my hand. And again it was a group of coins a salesman from Blanchard & Company out of New Orleans La. insisted I should at least consider. The group consisted of about a half dozen each of Mercury Dimes & Walker Halves. Well me, not ever being one for making real quick decisions when it came to spending money, I had to sleep on this idea for a few days before I decided to pull the trigger and take a step into slabbed coins. It was a medium size group of Mercury dimes in the old Rattler holders and about the same number of 6-8 coins in the Walker half series, housed in the second generation standard size PCGS OGH. In the assorted potpourri of coins, was a nice sampling of some late 1930's and other short set examples of both the Walking Liberty half dollar & Mercury Dime "short sets". There was even a 1941-S Walker in the group, graded a very strong MS-64, along with several other "mint marked" coins from 1938-39 up to 1945 in the dimes and 1947 in the halves. All of these dozen or better coins were PCGS OGH's, and are coins I still have today. I am convinced that these 1st slabs "jump started" my interest in the next level of my coin collecting. It was about this time, actually within weeks, I was talked into buying my first $20 gold double eagle. An NGC MS-63 in the "Liberty" series, dated 1904. I paid a little less than $600 for it and that was several "firsts" for me. It was my 1st slabbed NGC graded coin. It was also my 1st double eagle gold coin, actually my 1st graded gold coin period. And lastly, it was the most expensive coin I'd ever purchased, up to that point. It was in one of those NGC "fatty" slabs that don't stack worth a with other NGC slabs, which I still find aggravating today. But it was, and still is, a very nice, and what I would like to think, an "under-graded" gold double eagle. Besides looking like a MS-64, what stands out to me is, this coin for years was only worth $600 in the "Redbook". This upset me to the point, it was a few more years before I bought another slabbed/graded gold double eagle. But today I'm very glad I picked up that coin, and at the time, it was the largest gold coin I'd ever handled. Thanks to that huge expenditure, it kinda "broke the ice" and the double eagles that followed, were much cheaper by several hundred dollars, but were raw & not third party graded coins. Wow to only be able to go back to the early to mid 1990's again and back up the truck and load it up with "raw" $275-$350 $20 Gold Double Eagles. Now those same coins today that are "raw" are $1600-$1700 and better. Also that 1904 that was worth $600 for ages, is now closing in on $3000 value wise.There are just a couple more facts I want to share as far as to the proverbial PCGS OGH. One, they are highly sought after by a large collector base. Two, they tend to bring more money when sold at auction or to dealers, for whatever the number of reasons. And lastly and more importantly to me, it has been my personal experience to find that many coins in these OGH "appear" to be under-graded. Some worthy enough to jump as much as 1 or 2 points on the grade scale. And others are nice enough that they would grade bare minimum of at least a PLUS/+ to the grade already assigned. The Rattlers were around just a couple short years at the end of the 1980's until 1991-92. Then for another couple years from late 1992 to just about the mid 1990's you had the regular size holder you see today but the inserts were a light green followed by a shade darker green, also known as old green holders, followed again by the same regular size slab, but with the light blue paper insert we are use to seeing today. These final changes to the color of the paper insert to light blue, occurred around 1995. The first 5-7 years of the 1990's was really when I started to spend some serious cash on coins. 1996 was the 1st year I started buying a mint roll of silver eagles and fortunately for me, the '96 was the key year. That started me buying a roll for each year and finally today, having slowly picked up the back dates, along with the new dates available each new year in January, I have a roll from each year of the silver eagle series starting in 1986 through 2011, for a total of 25 different date rolls and counting.The 1941-D below in 66-FB replaces a MS-65-FB coin & the 1943-D pictured below replaces one of a grade higher, but it was in a 2nd generation old green holder. Now as of this date, each of these coins in this set are the 1st generation "rattlers. (I think) Now all I have to do is fill in the remainder of the few empty slots with rattlers. But this may take years because of the scarcity of the rattlers. My feelings are, I've been at it for about 20 years so far, I would like to think it won't take 20 more years to finish it.And as i mentioned, I still didn't quite finish on what all I wanted to say on this subject. I have just a wee bit more plus I want to share why I think that PCGS is supposedly a better grader than NGC. I don't personally adhere to that mind-set, but all of you that have been around a while know that as a general rule, on the same date and grade of coin, more times than not, a PCGS coin brings more money when sold. I don't agree with that, but I just want to continue in my next journal post, why I think that's the case. So this is the conclusion, but then again, it's not. If that makes any sense. Thanks for putting up with my "long winded" dog gone ramblings.Happy Collecting!WKFSilver to gold ratio is 34.589 at present.