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You mean SPECIMENS? As for the coin pictured, lots of Morgans have been turned into DMPL examples by having their surfaces altered.

Why did you submit this fantastic error coin without separating it from the other coins? Why not designate the coin as an error on the submission form? You submitted the coin in a mint capsule. Most likely the capsule was pressing against the coin giving it a look of something wrong with the coin or there was some sort of debris in the capsule pressed against the coin. The "error" disappeared when it was removed from the capsule. The odds of your coin being switched is insanely small. Don't you think that a company that on any given day could have $100,000,000+ in coins in their vaults has an insane level of security with camera covering everything.

The article linked is like cancer for rational thinking. The current state of journalism in this country (world?) is horrifying.

You should never settle for ANACS. The plastic is the most important thing.

Yes, but the Mint just has to outbid others for those planchets. The Mint could easily pay 50c more per planchet and pass that cost on to the consumer. It's pretty clear that people would pay 50c more for one of these coins. Or they could reduce the number of bullion SAE they make and shift those planchets over to the Morgan/Peace series.

Don't blame the flippers. It's all on the buyers. If they wouldn't pay stupid prices, flippers wouldn't flip.

Maybe I'm not understanding your intent correctly. When you say free index, does it have any value as a standalone? If it is only good in connection with purchasing the book, why not just put it on a site like Google Drive and let anyone download it?

If we can have a privy mint mark, why not a privy date? They can make them next year dated 2022 and call it a privy.

Hate to break it to you, but many new computers don't come with a CD or DVD drive. It's old tech.

Excluding the Denver, the MS70 are generally selling for $150-$300 with most in the $200-$250 range. The Denver are generally selling in the $500-$850 range and actually appear to be trending higher in price. The label type appears to have no bearing on the final price. Probably because there are so many different variations of labels for these.

Sometimes. There are certain series where there is more consistency in the grade spread between the two than other series. As for pricing difference, I feel that the PCGS pictures and their slab can command a premium. The pics are great looking (if not exactly accurate) and the PCGS slab is, in my opinion, much better for viewing the coin. Early on NGC had a reputation of being stricter than PCGS. What we need is a slab that is clear like the PCGS slab, as scratch resistant as the NGC slab, and has the grade info on top like the ANACS slab. Kind of. I feel like the NGC discount has gotten smaller on a lot of coins. Take a look at eBay results on generic coins and you'll frequently find that there is not a big spread between the two. The one area I feel the spread remains is on really high grade coins. PCGS commands higher prices in the rarified high grades. To be fair, they are generally tighter on those grades than NGC. However, it is very hard to compare. Let's say NGC graded the coin MS68 and it sold for $2,000, where a PCGS MS68 sells for $3,000. Considering the NGC MS68 may only grade MS67+ at PCGS (which sells for $1500), it is arguable to say that the NGC coin sold for more than the PCGS because they wouldn't have graded the same. There are no apples-to-apples comparisons here since every coin is unique. NGC wins by default on ancients as PCGS does not grade them. Not sure about tokens. It's possible that NGC has more marketshare as they used to grade a wider variety of items than PCGS. Then it flip-flopped. Now both TPG will grade practically anything that will fit in their holder. Lots of things. PCGS had better marketing than NGC. Early on you couldn't go to any show without seeing the PCGS plastic boxes in every dealers case. You knew immediately what it was. Instant product recognition. NGC guards their plastic boxes like they're made of gold. I believe that PCGS also had a larger dealer network so more coins were submitted to them early on. I know in my area there were several PCGS dealers to choose from. There were a couple of NGC dealers, but I recall that the two in reasonable distance to me didn't want to deal with the public. Thankfully, both are out of business today. NGC's unwillingness to slab modern coins. The company owner publicly pi**ing on moderns. Refusing to sell your customers what they want is one of the dumbest moves a company can make. I don't know how long it was before NGC started grading moderns, but when they did they clearly made a decision to be loose on the grading. I recall a friend and I doing a bulk submission to both PCGS & NGC. The PCGS batch had 3/100 grade 70. The NGC batch was around 50/50. The price for NGC moderns was much lower than for PCGS. Given the massive amount of moderns graded, people see the PCGS examples selling for more and that translates to other areas of the market. Then PCGS screwed around with 70s and destroyed the modern market. Historically the TPGs liked certain things. NGC used to like original toning even if it was ugly. They put a lot of ugly coins in really high grade slabs. These sold at a discount. PCGS liked luster and bright white. It's much easier to accept a pretty coin at a high grade than an ugly one. Even if technically they were the same condition, the ugly one is going to sell for less.

I suspect a lot of these are from large bulk submissions where they didn't meet the minimum grade. Send in bags to the TPG for grading and everything that grades MS63 or higher gets slabbed with a numeric grade and everything lower gets a generic BU holder and these get sold via Shop @ Home and other similar venues.

The D was on the reverse for the 1964. Switched to obverse in 1968.

I just checked. There have been 25 eBay sales for PCGS/NGC MS65/MS66 examples that have sold for less than $10. The lowest price was $1.50.

You can buy slabbed examples in MS66 for under $10 on eBay. Your coins raw are worth $1. Want to get $10 for them, spend $15 on having them graded. Other than extremely high grade examples, this series will never have any value.

At this last Long Beach show I saw a guy I haven't seen in MANY years. He used to post on the forums ATS. Someone told me he had died. Needless to say I was surprised when he walked past me. Two people who witnessed this told me the story: A dealer was upset with his wife who was helping him at the table and he grabbed her and started spanking her across his lap. I guess that's why they call it the FUN show...

So not worth $90000 more than this PR68+ (CAC) example.

Like so many people, it wasn't without a focus, just too many focuses. I've thinned out my collection over the past several years, but I'm now actively culling to the core. I used to throw a bunch of "that's neat" or "that's unusual" coins in a box. Just stuff you don't see. Those are being sold via eBay and a major auction house. I like 17th & 18th century European Crowns, but decided that if they aren't in special condition (generally MS64 or higher), I don't need them. They are replaceable. They're all going to an auction house. This includes some MS65 & MS66 examples that are amazing, rare, top pop, but I'm just not in love with anymore. With prices so crazy, I'm actually finding it harder to justify keeping many coins I like. I just watched a coin hammer for $8000, where a few years back I bought a same grade example for $1100. Earlier this year an MS62 example of a coin I own sold for $4000. I paid $1200 for an MS65 example a few years back. How can you hold these when there is so much profit available... I would not recommend preserving it for your children unless they are active collectors. They won't know the value, won't appreciate them, and it will just be work for them to dispose of the collection.

The dot on the nose is intended to be there. It represents the scab from the multi-year required use of a COVID mask. Personally, I think the obverse design isn't bad. I like the fullness of the space. I also like that he is facing a different direction. His spaghetti hair is gone! He's got a strong "don't mess with me" look. I'd have preferred a reverse with a bold eagle. This eagle looks like it was run over by a steamroller. Maya has clearly seen better days. Looks like she is missing her right hand. Also, between her and EPU, I can only assume that she's been stabbed in the back with a stick and that is a drop of blood dripping down?

Mintage figures can be sketchy for many nations that make money by outsourcing production of collector coins. I've owned 200+ examples of a coin that only had 25 minted.

It's near impossible to grade proof coins from a picture. Most of these come fairly nice and PR68 isn't out of line with their typical quality.

Both companies in the portfolios of the CCP. It's time the world woke up are realized that China is not an adversary, they are an enemy of everyone.

You get a Frosty Case. Nothing else. Very confusing to have the promo code ASE22. They should have used PlasticJunk or something similar.

Legally they are a continuation of the original series. At least that was the justification for being able to mint them. The metal content change does not bother me. Fineness adjustments have been made to coins since the beginning of coins. I view the change here similar to your 1964/1965 quarter example. Whereas the 3c series had an alloy change, size change, and design change, so clearly a different series. These must be included in the normal coinage totals. They are legitimate coins regardless of their likelihood of circulating. Even though legally they are a continuation of the original series, I would not personally include them if I collected them. The main difference to me is the release and intent of them. The original Morgan/Peace dollars were intended to circulate and available for face value. There is no intent that these circulate and they are only available for a premium price. Therefore, they are commemoratives to me.

None. If I have to pay current prices, I can't think of any coin that I want that is both locked away and that I could afford today.