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Type III - Long rays on obverse, sharp obverse stars, motto on reverse. This type pairs Barber's earlier, improved obverse with a new reverse adding the Congressionally mandated religious motto just above the sun. Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco.

Here's a Type III from Denver.

In hand, it has a slight tint to it, unlike any other gold coin I have.  Sort of a violet tint.

Bob

Just happened to be using the Coin Price Guide on NGC, wanted to see a past auction result, and read that Heritage was down when I clicked the Central States Auction.

And a victim of malware, confirmed by them.

In many ways, I miss the simplicity of life from my youth, a time when people walked their dogs without staring at a cell phone while doing so.

Love the Internet… and hate the Internet.  A Love/Hate relationship.

8 hours ago, Conder101 said:

But what is the point of a service and holder that is advertised as preserving provenance, that doesn't even state what the provenance is?

With that medal?  That thing will get carted around in an armored truck, guards with machine guns, a time lock that resets constantly, and two people with half codes, who also have fingerprint IDs for the unlocking mechanism.

NGC CAG Robbins Medal

It has plenty of info on its slab.

If you're spending this kind of money, there will be plenty of identifiers.

Like never published, micro-detailed photos of the slabbed coins that the general public is never made aware of.

I have a guitar from 1936, a Martin, and the serial number that the guitar was stated as being does not match the serial number of the guitar.

But the guitar's advertisement, that enticed me to buy it (after playing it, of course) assured me that the guitar is the one I thought I was buying.

There are ways to be assured you're getting what you think you're getting.

I was cruising Wikipedia, Apollo XI, and clicked on the famous photo of Buzz, and then found my way from the bottom of the screen to an upcoming Heritage Auction, just 20 days out from today.

It looks like a starting bid for Neil's "original" and "flown" Robbins Medal is $250,000.

It's in an NGC slab, and whoever gets it will be "over the moon" delighted.  Gold, and graded MS67.

It's beautiful!

See for yourselves: 4910559-001, 70.

https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/

Looks nice with the light-blue Early Releases label, but, then …

… this is an odd comment (not my first), and who really cares? 

6 hours ago, Conder101 said:

The verification number should be the invoice number - and then the line number on the invoice.

Thanks…

Put the numbers in and saw the images.

I'd post pics but that would involve taking iPhone pics of the screen (NGC's verification images are copyright protected, so they can't be copied with just a double tap and Copy command) and that's too much playing around. (my iPhone doesn't even have a "plan" right now, use it just as a camera, and the battery dies rapidly)

Wish they had rotated the coin "just a touch" counterclockwise for perfect alignment — to bring the two side moon-phases, date, and IN GOD WE TRUST squared up better with horizontal-level — but my order completion has involved me making NGC jump through hoops addressing another coin they had slabbed before, that has a fiber lying on its surface, so inspection by NGC for the fiber (need a loop to clearly see it), removing it, and then doing the reholdering.

Just want the coins back since my Registered Mail receipt of my shipment to NGC shows a date of February 6, 2019… damn, it will be around 50 days, minimum, by the time I have them back in hand again.

OK, my $5 Gold coin graded PF 70 Ultra Cameo.

Apparently, they send a confirming email when the shipment ships.

Since I have other coins shipping, from a separate filled-out form, but everything to ship together, I haven't gotten the email that confirms, and so I can't look at my coin on line since I don't know its verification number.

So I wait…  but the hard part is over.  The coin made the grade.  But it's the least of my worries… because it's

… a horrible day on the stock market.  Brutal!

Just spoke with Customer Service.  My $5 Gold is "done."  The grade is…

… still don't know.  That is revealed when the coin gets to shipping.

Shipping is waiting to combine two services:  the $5 coin and 3 other coins I submitted for reholdering.

The reholdering coins bogged down when I called to make sure NGC would inspect/remove a fiber off the surface of one coin in one of those holders.

Since everything will ship together, things are mostly at a standstill, now.

I asked when the reholdering coins would be done, and was told that that will be by the end of next week.

So, I expect to get my coins back sometime in April… maybe April Fools' Day.

That might be a double bonus for me.  On April Fools' Day I have a telephone appointment scheduled with Social Security:

The beginning of my venture into monthly checks for the rest of my life.

Never sell them.

They are one aspect of many, of your father's legacy to you.

I suppose you could sort them into "A" stacks and "B" stacks, but from what you've stated, they'll probably all be "A" stacks.

Deciding how to go forward?

Well, you've got what many would call "a good problem" to figure out.

Enjoy.  Life has many rewards.  This is one of them.

Then maybe they'll call in for a snow day…

… in Florida.

It looks like my $5 Gold Proof will get graded tomorrow, as I followed the submission process on Friday, and the status had changed to scheduled for grading.

Got the US Mint packaging back from NGC on Saturday morning.

So, the moment of truth approaches.

Both Matt_dac and I placed our orders at the same time with the US Mint, but I waited to submit to NGC.  (5 days for NGC order forms to arrive via USPS)

Although it seems like it's been an eternity, our gradings at NGC are only a week apart.

Hope the graders haven't gotten tired of seeing PF 70 Ultra Cameos, but a Monday grade suggests they'll be "refreshed" from the weekend break.

My, how times flies.  A week from today and we'll be back on DST.

On 2/25/2019 at 10:55 AM, Matt_dac said:

I'm waiting to receive the return shipment from NGC but here's mine:

 

That's an amazing coin!

If you look closely, a flying saucer is about to "beam up" Neil Armstrong.

If I were him, I'd be more worried about that than seeing if anyone had texted me on my cell phone.

Exactly where is the scratch?  On the right rim?

It's a very beautiful penny.

I took a look at the Conder thread.

There was one coin that really was cool.

Can't remember which one, but I'd know it if I saw it again.

There are supposed to be over 1000 varieties.

I avoided the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation label, and went for Early Releases.

Still in Received status.

Every once in a while I peruse the Internet for the "key" coin of this hypothetical collection.

EBay just had one, apparently offered from David Lawrence Rare Coins, and it was a stunning example, and seems to have closed less than a week ago on February 14, 2019 (Valentine's Day):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1848-CAL-2-1-2-PCGS-AU50-2-50-Liberty-Gold-Coin-Old-Green-Label-Holder-/352570909924?_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l44720&nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true

Really… to die for.  So gorgeous!

Wish I had unlimited funds… I would have been all over it.

Status:  Received.

I'm still waiting for my invoice commencement.

Maybe they'll get to my box today, and I'll get an email.

Is that the result you know (somehow) or the coin you now have back "in hand?"

(congrats, btw)

I'm following the sales figures vicariously through you!

My submission to NGC was upgraded to Delivered yesterday.

Hoping, so much, that the grade will be a Proof 70 from NGC.

But even if it comes in at 69, I'll be Ok.

Why?  1969 was a good year for Buzz Aldrin in photos.

Actually, the prior ZIP was 34260, and not 34230...

Just now:

Available for Pickup

My NGC package is now at the Sarasota, FL 34260 Post Office, probably in NGC's P.O. Box, and everything is closed for Sunday.

The best outcome I could "hope for" on a weekend.  

My coin, right now?

Slept last night at the Post Office at JFK International Airport

And right now it is…

Eight miles high
And when you touch down
You'll find that it's stranger than known

Signs in the street
That say where you're going
Are somewhere just being their own

Nowhere is
There warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground

Rain-gray town
Known for its sound
In places, small faces unbound

Round the squares
Huddled in storms
Some laughing, some just shapeless forms

Sidewalk scenes
And black limousines
Some living, some standing alone

Mailing my box in the next hour.

Showed up at USPS at closing yesterday and I had used Scotch Heavy Duty clear plastic tape, and you can't do that.

The Registered Mail hand-stamps need to guarantee untampered contents by showing up on all box-to-paper sealed seams.

But the really nice employee gave me a whole roll of the paper tape when I asked if I could borrow it overnight.

Went home, used a hair-drier to get the plastic tape off, and did a complete rewrap of the box with the paper tape.

Box looks great.  (even better than before)