Newenglandrarities

Well, if I understand your question correctly, NGC (or ANY other grading service) grades every coin the same way. You don’t get a better grade by paying for a higher tier. The only difference in cost is time taken to grade and of course if the value of the coin itself is higher than 3000, then the fees go up accordingly. BUT, you CANNOT pay more money for a higher grade. Otherwise the grading system would be awfully flawed and I don’t think we would have much of a market if that were the case. Now, if you submit a $10,000 coin under the “standard” tier pricing (up to 3k) NGC will catch that and charge you the appropriate amount based on their grading fee structure. So that little trick does not work at all! Hope that helps.

And I’ll add that many of the sources you are using to look at this stuff was written and published by people, often who are members here responding, as well as on all the other major coin forums. I promise you this, you will get the EXACT same response from every reputable coin forum online, maybe the only place you won’t is in YouTube comments. Just food for thought.

So, was the effort here to make it seem like people here don’t know anything or did I just misread your post? Multiple times a month someone comes on a coin forum and tries to catch the people with a mismatched photo or something completely different. I find it always interesting when that happens. Why would someone come on to ask a question only to waste not only their own time, but time of people here who are actively trying to help people. Now I’m not saying that was your approach, but in general that kind of “defensive” move is often associated with a poster who got bad news and now wants to blame the forum members for that bad news. If I misunderstood your above post, I apologize, but when I see “for realizing it’s not the same coin and proving my point of how people in this group think they know so much” that is generally not really a great statement. There are world renowned experts here who are helping everyone. I think that’s a pretty big red flag.

As others have said, worth more than face value because they were struck in silver during this time. But value wise, not very much. You will get just below melt value so expect if you are selling to not net more than a few dollars for all three. Hope that helps.

@dprince1138 come on. You really think after 17+ years and over 10000 posts that because you are “confused”, that all of a sudden that fun loving thread that almost any coin collector can participate in should now have the rules altered for you?? I have never seen a member here do so much damage to their own reputation than you have sir/madam. I even tried to give you another chance here. You really need to think hard about this. If you are trolling, great job. But I actually don’t think you are, which is where I (and many others) are starting to worry. This is NOT an example of all press is good. You are literally destroying any meaningful chance of being in the business of selling coins by your posts and shockingly to me, you don’t seem to understand that. We are not crazy internet people here, you are literally talking to the REAL people of the hobby. edited to add (and correct spelling) that particular post has over 827000 views. Yours have 300 on the high end generally. Seriously, who are you lol.

Lol. Seriously!

I know reaching out to the moderator here has not removed this “person” but let’s give dprince another chance. My suggestions above are correct and I ask dprince now here to start trying better. I hope he/she can do that. It’s pretty scary to believe with what you are posting, and then seeing you’ve sold to so many people. In general, this is the issue/problem these forums are trying to eliminate. So, act accordingly and try to improve your image

I don’t disagree, nobody stopping you from that. Just understand there are a lot of “watchdogs” and now you opened yourself up to that. I am not one to tell anyone how to do things, but at least I got you to respond with something other than “thanks for your participation/bump”. Seriously, try to repair your relationship with this forum. Then, try harder outside of this forum, because your reputation is very much compromised.

@dprince1138 Do you have interest in being a coin dealer? If so, you should really at this point try a new approach. Unknown to you is that your name has circulated a lot outside of this forum and you posted your eBay name. So, you may now want to take a new approach before you are literally blacklisted by many of collector and dealer. I now thank you for your participation.

Oh I have. I’m sure many others have as well. I think it is very important to point out here that (most) everyone in this group would be happy to help someone like dprince if it wasn’t for their horrible approach and complete lack of understanding of how to talk/engage with the community. Nobody needs a “smartass” who just copies online information, of varying accuracy. This person could have helped his understanding of coins the last few weeks, instead that person does not realize that they have done some serious damage to their “aspiring” business and pretty much has no chance of recovery on any major coin forum as many of us are members of them all. I’ve never seen such a “hang yourself” approach in all the years of reading this forum (though I have seen a few do it on other sites)

Pretty simple to understand dprince. You don’t see R1 or R2 that often as it is irrelevant to selling such an item. There is no premium whatsoever for the most common varieties. Imagine offering something for sale, and the sales pitch was, “this is the most common type/variety for the series”. For someone selling coins and having 2200+ feedback on eBay, it’s concerning to me (and I assume many others) that you do not seem to understand even the basic information about numismatics. Plus your attitude and “personality” are both poor at best. This community (not this forum but the coin community) is very close knit, it would be in your best interest if you are planning to continue selling to maybe relook at your approach, because you seriously have all the red flags and that doesn’t often have a good outcome in the long term. By being here, you are exposed to a lot more true collectors and we all talk a lot!

On the flip side I guess someone could have made themselves such a toilet accessory. I doubt it, but anything is possible! I hate to ask, but do you have an image?

Haha, what a great question and one I’ve never seen asked. Truthfully, the work to get them out of such a novelty toilet bowl (which I’ve seen many times amazingly) is NOT worth the trouble. First off, many toilet bowls with this are often faked better coins with quarters mixed in. But believe me, there is no real value beyond what such a toilet bowl “seating area” would be worth. They sold these in novelty magazines in the 80s/90s. Never heard anyone ever ask them before (though I’m sure someone has!)

You did bump it!!

Very good take Bill. I was going to comment as a specialist in early American coins, tokens, medals etc. a lot of what I buy is raw already. So I don’t really have a “limit” in that regard, though often there are 5 and even 6 figure coins of this nature totally raw. Matter fact, many of the collectors buy a coin holdered, and break it out right away to keep it raw in their collection. Though with federal coinage today, as Bill said, my limit would be lower unless viewing in hand!