GoldFinger1969

That's a good idea. When I bring up the Main Forums Page, the top stuff takes up 1/2 my desktop screen. When I hit the "U.S. COINS" page, the Sub Forums takes up the Top 1/2 of my screen. Need to shrink BOTH of those so the stuff below -- which is what we are looking for -- doesn't need to be scrolled to. I like the sticky idea....there are some timely and important threads that should always be pinned at the top for visibility. Maybe Dena can determine that with feedback from some Veteran posters....maybe the Veteran posters can do that...maybe if enough people recommend a particular thread...whatever. Not to toot my own horn, but I think that the book on Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles is probably worthy of being pinned. It's a spectacular book AND it relates to one of the most popular coins and as such both the book and the thread will probably be updated as folks interested in Saints come to this site and update that thread and/or other Saint threads. Same reasons can be applied to other threads by others.

Lots of people over the decades moved at that age -- or older -- from NY to Florida. In fact, I just attended an estate sale for a woman in her 80's who's making the trek !

PF, it appears to me that MOST of the threads are pretty decent, just honest and rigorous back-and-forth. If a thread here or there goes off the rails, as bad as it is, it's better than losing the entire Forum. Lots of newspapers and websites have totally closed down their Comments section. Admittedly, more controversial and volatile subject matter. If we can get a REPORT feature that is monitored, then if Dena/NGC see multiple requests on the same post/thread, they can react. I do wonder about the switch in layout format a few years ago. Anybody know why it was done ? Seems like the Threads and Comments are more "spacier" and whiter than before. Less compact, less reader-friendly. Wonder if that is why many left.

Back to Mint Marks and dates.....Roger's Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle book gives lots of examples of overstrikes and what led to their creation for each year and mint mark for which they occurred.

The goodwill and public thanks that would result from a company having a Magic Bullet are worth more than the profits from the drugs themselves.

I'm surprised that holdings of Double Eagles wasn't more widespread from 1907-1933. You had the Panic of 1907 and the failure of Knickerbocker Trust Co....World War 1 (stock trading suspended)....Recession of 1921.....Depression.....8,000 bank failures 1932-33. I realize poor and "middle class" folks didn't have the savings they do today, but you'd think more families would have a few of them as emergency savings or stores of value. Of course, I believe a few million (hundreds of thousands ?) got turned in after FDR's EO.

I'm not seeing that.

Much appreciated, thanks Dena ! And I am NOT seeing the names of people who LIKED a post like you copied above.....not sure about Comic, but when I run my cursor over the Heart, Number, and Trophy icons...no names appear. It would be nice to see a complete list but even a partial list would be OK. It's rare that you would see 20 LIKES and need to see all 20 names; if that happens, you can just show the first 3 or 5 names and say "...and 15 others." Most LIKES seem to be 1-6 or thereabouts.

Thumbs Up, Kurt....I can't even get my condo to open up the damn Clubhouse, which is used by MAYBE 3-4 people....A WEEK !!! Aside from party bookings, I am usually the ONLY person there on the weekends, reading BARRON'S and watching movies and sports on the wall-mounted 70" HDTV. Sometimes 2 people come in to shoot pool or play ping-pong but that's it. We have electronic fobs that record entrances and I'll bet pre-Virus that no more than 4-6 weekly entrances happened, with 1 or 2 people entering at a time. For about 1 hour on average (myself excluded, since I stay there all day Saturdays and most of Sunday through the football games). With their own big screen TV's, there's no need to access a Clubhouse like there was 15-20 years ago. The DOH and county (I'm in NYS) have put such burdensome requirements we'd need a staff of 2-3 to be on patrol 18 hours a day. Freakin' ridiculous. Have their been any notable conventions since March/April ? Any kind....I guess it depends on your state. NYS just won't allow mass gatherings. My astronomy club's annual space show and re-scheduled date both got shot down this year. Hopefully FUN is a success.

I think it's more than 4, Insider. This article says 23. Some are spending more $$$ than others and some probably are only in Phase 1 and hope to get a bigger company to buy them and/or pay for the future trials and testing. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-nine-companies-are-working-on-coronavirus-treatments-or-vaccines-heres-where-things-stand-2020-03-06

Definition of a troll: Someone who asks many pointed questions about a member's posted that are never answered. Opinion posts are easy to make. Reading the opinion of others is how we learn new things. That's why I'd rather read posts from members who disagree with me! This gets tedious at times because "feelings" don't cancel out facts. Unfortunately, the amount of ignorance in this country is exacerbated by the Press. There are certain things that a person will never change like the belief in a "God" or the hatred of toned coins. There are other beliefs that do change with true, verifiable facts like the earth flat or I have a double die coin. It took me a few years as a professional to learn that some coins were actually DOUBLED die specimens. Excellent post....I would have LIKED it, but I used up my daily quota already !!!

Well, we've never seen so many companies working on vaccines and treatments for 1 disease (MAYBE AIDs in the 1980's)....should be some good news next few months. And my understanding is a vaccine need only be 50% effective and safe to make a difference (or at least previous vaccines against diseases).

Dena, as an aside.....is there any reason why the LIKE feature is limited to 3 or 4 a day ? I see no reason why it shouldn't be unlimited...many times, I don't want to needlessly respond to a post and just quote what someone already posted and acknowledge a good post that way. LIKING it is much easier. This is the only website I have ever been a member where the LIKE or THUMBS UP feature is only able to be used a few times per day.

I beg to differ. I believe there are other metals that mimick the weight and density of gold that you just can't weigh them when dealing with "good" counterfeiters. These "rolling waves" are difficult to produce as is the hologram-like picture. I'd want to see them in-hand but they seem to be the equivalent of the hidden strips in our currency introduced 20 years ago.

Thanks....very interesting. Unless you read The WSJ or business sections daily back then you'd never know about this.

I wasn't aware that Eagles weren't made every year, thanks Olympics ! I have Akers book but never even read that section, just the Double Eagle section !

Hey, take your time....we'd rather you do it at the speed you are comfortable with rather than rushing it out and leaving stuff out. I presume this book is going to be published by HA and similar format to the DE book ? Any idea/guestimate on the length ?

Thanks, Olympics ! So basically all the coins after 1929, as I suspected. I forgot about the 2 mint-mark coins with 1931 having 2 versions and 1930 ONLY having the San Fran coin (no Philly coin).

Isn't it amazing that the location in a vault in the Philly Mint determined whether or not said bags could be accessed....reach the public....and then survive to today ? Thanks for the heads-up on the 1931-D mint mark being part of the Fab 5. I could be wrong, but I think the last major hoard of Saints would be Gillio's 1908 No Mottos in the late-1990's. I know a bunch were found in the early-1980's. But by now, I would think even smaller, technologically-deficient overseas banks would have found any stray bags or hidden coins in their vaults or holding areas.

Thank You, mis-construed Eagles Book for the Double Eagles book. Not to nitpick, but if the demand for smaller coins hit in 1932, why didn't it "shake loose" alot of the presumably "bagged and vaulted" earlier year Eagles ? Any ideas ?

I would just be careful about unnecessarily banning or suspending folks. For instance, "Political Posts" is tough to avoid if you are discussing a rise in the gold price in relation to the election or post-election happenings. Personally, I think the members here -- admittedly shrunk from years ago -- have done a good job of "self-policing" and keeping on topic (I know I try ). If a post runs afoul of Dena's post or NGC's TOS, then in order: Delete the offending post or part of the post that is offensive or violates TOS (no need to entirely discard a well-though out lengthy post for 1 bad sentence). Inform the individual via a PM or a public post that they had a violation and avoid such in the future. Suspension for repeated infractions. Banned I would hope the NGC Moderators would use discretion and reach out to any offending parties, except where there has been GROSS violations and WANTON disregard for the rules. As an example....I am a well-respected member of another non-coin forum....I've been posting there for years....I'm well-known to most of the Mods and posters and have met a few personally.....yet recently, a new very young Moderator who didn't know me suspended me for a single sentence that was intended as humour in a lengthy post that got lots of positive reviews (my suspension was reversed by the veteran Mods).

Is it true we have never cured a disease caused by a virus ? If so, then what kind are cured -- those caused by bacteria or germs ?

I think the tell will be this: the virus isn't leading off the news stations and those stupid "counts" for U.S. and Global deaths/infections are no longer like a scores ticker running at the bottom of ESPN or a football game..

Thanks for that post, Roger, if it was in the book I forgot reading it. (1) Amazing that the Europeans could have a "gold standard" but it only applied to bars weighing many pounds. Like having currency no smaller than $100 bills. (2) Any reason why demand for the 1932 Eagles spiked so high ? The Depression was bottoming here (I think the recovery had started earlier in Europe as they debased their currencies) but I am at a loss as to the huge increase in demand and survival for 1932 Indians relative to 1931, 1930, 1929.