gmarguli

This is a ridiculous and rash decision. There are people available to help you with things like keeping up with the everyday chores of cooking, cleaning, and maintaining the home. You can find them on Match and eHarmony. Good luck!

The key to good trolling is having a line of plausibility running through the troll. Posting gibberish and claiming to be a writer just kills all plausibility.

This copper example you refer to would not be a pattern, but rather a Die Trial if struck first or Off Metal Strike if struck later in the production run.

1134th was meant to show the absurdity of guessing which number struck it was. This 1st coin struck garbage is nothing more than "if you repeat something enough it becomes true". Let's just be honest about the coin. It is a very early strike, but impossible to know which number off the dies it was. It's just as conceivable that it was the 50th coin off the dies as the 1st. With only ~7% of the original mintage surviving and most worn/adjusted/damaged, it's impossible to know how quickly the die deteriorated.

That is absolutely true. There is a 1 in 1758 chance that this is correct. Should this coin cross the desks of Heritage and you need added fluff for the auction description, you may quote me on this: It is perfectly conceivable that this coin was the 1134th Silver Dollar struck!

FYI, minimum wage started in 1938 at 25c/hour. It was $30c in 1940. Year Minimum Wage 1938 $0.25 1939 $0.30 1940 $0.30 1941 $0.30 1942 $0.30 1943 $0.30 1944 $0.30 1945 $0.40 1946 $0.40 1947 $0.40 1948 $0.40 1949 $0.40 1950 $0.75 1951 $0.75 1952 $0.75 1953 $0.75 1954 $0.75 1955 $0.75 1956 $1.00 1957 $1.00 1958 $1.00 1959 $1.00 1960 $1.00 1961 $1.15 1962 $1.15 1963 $1.25 1964 $1.25 1965 $1.25 1966 $1.25 1967 $1.40 1968 $1.60 1969 $1.60 1970 $1.60 1971 $1.60 1972 $1.60 1973 $1.60 1974 $2.00 1975 $2.10 1976 $2.30 1977 $2.30 1978 $2.65 1979 $2.90 1980 $3.10 1981 $3.35 1982 $3.35 1983 $3.35 1984 $3.35 1985 $3.35 1986 $3.35 1987 $3.35 1988 $3.35 1989 $3.35 1990 $3.80 1991 $4.25 1992 $4.25 1993 $4.25 1994 $4.25 1995 $4.25 1996 $4.75 1997 $5.15 1998 $5.15 1999 $5.15 2000 $5.15 2001 $5.15 2002 $5.15 2003 $5.15 2004 $5.15 2005 $5.15 2006 $5.15 2007 $5.85 2008 $6.55 2009 $7.25 2010 $7.25 2011 $7.25 2012 $7.25 2013 $7.25 2014 $7.25 2015 $7.25 2016 $7.25 2017 $7.25 2018 $7.25 2019 $7.25 2020 $7.25 2021 $7.25 2022 $7.25

A medal/charm/amulet in the design of Chinese key money. Here is the same design in a recent Stack's Lot. Probably made in the 19th century, not 2,000 years ago like real ones.

Federal minimum wage was 75c/hour in 1950. She probably made 25c/day at work while walking there uphill both ways, in the year-round snow, with holes in her shoes...

We've had 1891.4% inflation since 1940, so that Gobrecht would cost $706.96 in todays dollars.

Damaged is debatable. The coins were meant to circulate in an area where chopmarks were a normal part of the circulation process. Calling it damage would be the same as calling worn coins in the US damaged.

This is Mr. Widely Believed, pictured going out to get his mail as he does every morning. He does not have a website as websites are one of the easiest ways for aliens to track us. Everyone knows this is why the aliens gave us the internet, so they could track us more easily. Mr. Widely Believed predicts this coin will soon be on display at major shows in a new PCGS SP66+ CAC slab, as since the price increased the grade must also increase.

There are a lot of people that need that ego boost or the instant gratification. Not just coins. Look at new model cars where people pay way over sticker because they have to have it now. I used to buy from the Mint to slab and resell. Super important to be one of the first to list for sale as the prices drop fast. I'd place an order the second it went on sale and pay for express shipping. I'd literally repackage it at USPS/UPS the day it arrived to overnight it to the TPG. Once the grades posted, up on eBay with a stock photo. I always worried that they buyers would return the item after seeing the price drop. They didn't. At least with the Mardi Gras beads you have the memories of a good time.

You people haven't lived until tracking shows that the package is being processed by Customs... and it wasn't an international shipment. Or worse, that it was delivered in Toledo, but you live in Los Angeles.

Oh, there is no explaining eBay. Years ago I listed a gold US commemorative, starting at $2495, which was around retail value. It didn't sell, so I relisted it a couple hundred lower. It didn't sell all the way down to $1495. I was into it for so little I decided to just let it go and auction it starting at 1c. Final price was ~$2650.

They post the times on the submission page. They are OPENING packages received the week of November 22nd. That's 2 months ago. Then it is 45 business days for grading.

Sounds like you are not a typical collector. Most people today need instant gratification and the Morgan Dollar series does that. That series allows someone to add to it when they feel the need / have the funds. All the coins are available in all realistic grades every single day of the year. Even collectors of low financial means can realistically look to owning a Morgan in superb condition. An MS66+ can be found for ~$300.

It's my understanding that this Josh Tatum story is a myth that was first told mid-20th century. You'd think that if Josh Tatum existed, there would be court records or newspaper articles from that time period naming him.

I don't think there is wear on it. Looks like the highest points aren't fully struck up, which is typical. I'd call it MS62. As for knowing the grade in 45 days... You're 60+ calendar days from NGC opening the package. Then you're 45 business days for it to be graded. You're 5 months away from a grade.

It's the ultimate non-collectible series. Too short to be a challenge for a determined person. Too expensive for most collectors to collect in nice condition. A few stoppers (price) in lower grades for a lot of collectors. Way too many counterfeits that fool even the dealers. It's a pure type coin.

The prior ones listed National Park Foundation on the insert. This one just says NPF. Does anyone know what role, if any, the NPF actually plays in these things? Does this charity actually benefit meaningfully from the sale of these? And what does NHP on the reverse mean?

The Lenin coin has two varieties, KM-9.1 (fineness stamp below right trunk) and KM-9.2 (fineness stamp to the left of the left trunk). The Pope coin comes with the same placement of the fineness stamps as the Lenin coin, but they aren't listed in the Krause catalogs. The "1 AR above E in Pesetas" variety is referring to the Abraham Lincoln coin when the fineness stamp comes either at the left of the left trunk or above the ET in Pesetas.

They're too big to be bag marks. Some sort of post-mint damage. Maybe damage from a slot machine?

I know both PCGS & NGC have accepted a lot of very small time dealers. No idea what the cutoff is. They do check references and I suspect they could easily check to make sure the person is an active seller of coins in some marketplace. An NGC grader told me to get a dealer account after I had submitted 720 coins for grading. It hadn't occurred to me before. The application wanted basic info on me and my business. They also asked for 4 numismatic references who they actually called. Looking back, one of the references participates in this thread and another now works for NGC. I can't find my original PCGS application, but I'm pretty sure it was similar. I recall it asking similar info and also for references. My only reference was the then-President of PCGS and shockingly my approval sailed through at lightening speed. After acceptance they had me sign a 14 page document promising my life away.

Nope. No minimum submissions annually. The 15% discount is there because no dealer would ever submit a coin for a customer if they didn't get paid for it. The 15% is compensation to the dealer to do the submission. Of course, the dealer also benefits from the lower cost and the TPG benefits from dealers pushing their product. Not sure why any service would want to "shake out" customers. Especially true of dealers whose submissions may greatly vary over the years. Make no mistake about it, the $199 fee is being charged because they think they can. To me, that's the s**tiest kind of fee a business can charge.

Every couple months I get a call from someone who got my number off the PCGS/NGC dealer list. It is practically always a person who wants to submit common coins or a counterfeit. No matter how hard I explain that the AU clad Ikes they pulled from circulation are not worth more than face, they refuse to listen. No matter how many times I tell them that their 1776-dated dollar isn't real, they refuse to believe. If by chance they have something real, they will over value it by multiples of what it is really worth. That really worn common date Morgan dollar that came out of a slot machine must be worth several hundred dollars. After all, it's 130 years old. I will no longer deal with people who find my info on the dealer list.