had several emotions run through me the last few days.

Hi all,

I really hate to write this journal. I feel I must, if only to vent a little bit and get things off my chest. Right up front, I will admit to feeling let down by NGC, and if they want to take away my journal awards for saying what I am going to say, then so be it. I can recall after my first journal award, talking to someone at NGC (I think maybe Joisey Girl but must confess I do not remember for sure) about a question or something. I remember making a comment about how I liked the fact that both NGC and PCGS coins were allowed. So I asked, will this every change??? I was assured it would not. Well, for my world coins, it did. I feel this is one reason our society to me was special, we were free to "Buy the coin and not the holder";. This is still good advice. But now I feel I must buy NGC only. I will admit there are going to be some PCGS coins in my custom sets, so I guess not all is lost.

While I never set out to be No. 1 competitively, I do have a competitive spirit. Now I feel that U.S. coins won't be too far behind world coins, so tonight I yanked out all of my PCGS graded U.S. coins except for 2 Trade Dollars, 2 or 3 Morgans, a couple of New Orleans minted minor coinage and a Kennedy half and a Morgan dollar that have sentimental value to me, as they were from my mom and dad. But this sure shot some of my U.S. sets all to hell.

I am sorry NGC, I feel I had to say all this. I am going to stay here rather than go to PCGS, they do not even have journals. But I will be damned if I am going to cross any coin over. I really figure that is what is driving all of this, and while I cannot complain about the American economic system, I feel we (Collector& society members) are the ones getting the short stick.

Thank you all for reading, and letting me get this off my chest. There was 1 good thing, looking through all my PCGS coins, I did notice a few that had some toning spots and other things wrong, so I can upgrade the coins. :-) I guess there is always a silver lining to even the darkest cloud.