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At this price, I’m a millionaire!

UPDATE: The graded coin arrived today. From now through Saturday I’m reducing my price to $600 for insured Priority Mail shipment, including the original Mint packaging. After Saturday it goes to ebay. Thanks for looking!

2020-W American Silver Eagle with the “V75” privy mark, just graded PF70UC today by NGC. It has the “V75” label and is designated Early Releases. This coin is being shipped to me today, December 3 and should be here by Monday Dec. 7. There are currently dozens of listings on ebay for these at $700 and up, and almost all are pre-sales. The photo is a generic coin to show the label details. My price of $650 includes the original Mint packaging and insured Priority Mail shipping the day after the coin arrives from NGC. Paypal is preferred.

I have submitted a few ANACS coins in the original slabs. Most have graded a point lower at NGC - an ANACS MS-64 came back NGC MS-63, and three 65s came back 64s. A couple came back with the same grade, and one jumped up from VF-30 to XF-45. None have come back details graded so far. I have never cracked one out for submittal.

Sorry to hear about your wife. 2020 has been hard enough without dealing with that loss. Coins are just a pleasant distraction, people you are close to are what really matters. I hope 2021 will be a better year for all of us.

My guess would be Fine Details based on the leg damage. Without the damage, F12 or possibly F15.

Thanks for the help with this one, Ali. You always get it done!

Same story here. Identified about 82 bikes/boats/cars, finally got one silver eagle in my cart by 12:10, identified another 112 bikes/boats/buses/cars trying to get the website to let me checkout. “Error1015”. Eventually got checked out (close to 1:00), received a text confirming receipt of the order, and received an email with order details just before 5:00.

Looks like a fake.

I tried to add my NGC AU-58 1939-D/D to the 1939-D slot in the Walking Liberty Circulated Only set and got a “not valid for slot” message. Shouldn’t this variety qualify as a 1939-D?

“Almost half” are nothing but ebay links? More like 90%. This forum used to be collectors offering to sell coins to other collectors. If I want to buy a coin on ebay, I search ebay for it. Maybe 1 out of 25 posts on this board now are collector to collector sales and not auction links.

Ebay is not concerned with protecting the seller or the buyer, only themselves. This has been very obvious in my dealings with them for 20+ years. I lost several hundred dollars to a fraudulent seller and then lost again to a crooked buyer, and ebay was unwilling to even listen to my side of either case. I decided the risk was too high and quit selling through them several years ago.

Nice set. It is great to get all coins of a set in the same holders when practical. I’m going in the opposite direction with my War Nickel set - all are NGC MS67 in the old holders, before edge view, except for the 1945-P. I would love to find a replacement in an old holder for that one. Anyone want to swap? Also great to see Sam is continuingto make progress. Our preemie granddaughter has some of the same issues, and PT is helping tremendously. She also has the same toys!

Before sending any of them to a grading service, see if any of the red or brown 1943’s are attracted to a magnet. Any that are magnetic are just copper-plated steel cents, essentially worthless.

USPS seems to be having problems lately. I have had two Priority Mail packages recently "disappear" in their tracking system, one for a week and the other for almost a month. Both eventually were delivered, so don't give up on it yet.

I just believe a basic "set" for any series should include only those dates, mint marks and varieties officially issued by the Mint. The Mint officially issued 1917-S half dollars with the S on the obverse, and officially released 1917-S half dollars with the S on the reverse. They kept records of how many of each design were released. Both should be included in the basic set. The Mint did not officially issue 1882-O/S Morgan dollars. There is no Mint record of such an issue. A Mint employee did a sloppy job of modifying dies with an existing S mint mark and replacing it with an O. Should that be included in a Variety set? Sure, but not the basic set because the Mint did not intentionally create them. And when creating a Registry set including varieties, define what's included, put it out to the community for comment, then add the set to the Registry and leave it alone. No one likes a competition where the goal posts keep moving. I have never been to Zimbabwe but I have been to Ethiopia several times. I bet you would enjoy a trip to either or both (once the pandemic is over and we can travel again). The Omo river valley in the southwest is one of the most remote areas in the world, and Axum and Lalibela in the north are fascinating historical sites. In terms of inflation, one US dollar was equal to 5.2 Ethiopian Birr during my first trip there in 1994. Now one US dollar is over 30 ETB.

Closing in on completing a set can be very satisfying, but soon after filling the last slot, I usually develop a case of upgrade fever. One of my sore points with NGC is the way they define "sets". The basic Walking Liberty half set includes every date and mint mark, plus extra slots for the major design change moving the mint marks from obverse to reverse in 1917. This yields 65 slots, that was defined as the "set" when the Registry was created and remains so today. The basic Morgan dollar set, however, includes all dates and mint marks, minor design changes (7 tail feathers or 8 tail feathers, straight or slanted arrow feather), and several very obscure errors. The minor design changes, OK, but I don't believe an 1882-O/S or 1887/6-O belongs in a basic Morgan set any more than a 1946 DDR Walker belongs in a basic Walker set. Even more frustrating is when the set changes long after it is added to the Registry. A new set for Walking Liberty half dollars including 14 specific varieties was added years ago. I asked at the time why those specific varieties were included while others were not, and the answer was that those were considered the "significant" varieties fir the WL series. I already had a few of the varieties and immediately began searching for the others. It took about five years to accumulate 12 of the 14, but when I went to add my 12th one, I found two new slots had been added to the set. More slots have been added since then. To add insult to injury, I had preciously owned one of the added varieties but sold it because at the time (1) the variety had not been attributed on the label, (2) NGC would not attribute the variety because it was "not significant", and (3) there was no slot for it even if it was attributed. That's my rant for today. Someday I'd like to get some of those Zimbabwe multi-trillion note you are collecting. I have some seriously devalued Ethiopian money but their inflation has been mild compared to Mugabe's pillaging of his country.