"CC" and "O" arrived today.

I received my D and S coins today.  They look nice, but not like the originals, seem like more of a burnished strike rather than a circulation strike, not sure what impact the change in composition had.

I received my D and S coins today.

I may have an extra of a couple of them, as two friends of mine each ordered with the idea that if one of us missed out the others could make up for it.  As it stands I know I have no extra CC, but might have one extra of the D and O.

Hello @dena I still have not been able to log into the boards from Chrome/Duckduckgo so I am wondering if there is something that I can do to fix that or if it's something on NGC's end.  I am currently using MS Edge to access, but that is no ideal.  On Chrome, the boards just flash then I get the following message:

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Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

On 10/8/2021 at 2:19 AM, GoldFinger1969 said:

I've gotten an error message and posted it in another thread to the NGC Mods and Dena. 

Where is the place to post these topics to the moderators?  I couldn't find anything close on the list of board topics.

On 10/8/2021 at 11:36 AM, Jason Abshier said:

I have been having problems with sign on to leave a comment on certain post when I go to post it tells me to sign in when I click it it sends me to main NGC page showing I’m signed in but on the boards it shows I’m not signed in I have sign out on main page the. Restart it all over sign in and leave a comment perhaps browser history needs cleaned 

That same thing happens to me with Chrome, but when I go back to the boards page, it flashes a bunch of times and then I get the 403 error.  Working from Edge now, but I don't like Edge.

I've noticed since Tuesday, I can't log on using google chrome but can through Microsoft Edge.  I get the following error:

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Any thoughts on how I can fix this? 

Well according to the Constitution, Congress has the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, so it would be in their purview.  But that means Congress would still need to pass it, and if they can't pass legislation to raise the debt ceiling, why would they pass legislation to mint a trillion-dollar coin?  On another note, minting a trillion-dollar coin would lay bare to the world, the worthlessness of the dollar, similar to the $100 Trillion Zimbabwe bill I have in a drawer somewhere...

On 9/22/2021 at 8:24 AM, ldhair said:

I have bought one of almost every Silver Eagle the mint has offered from the start of the program. None of them have gained milk spots. The possible reason for that is that I never remove them from the capsule they come in. I store them away from all the other mint packaging. More and more, I believe that changing holders just creates problems. 

I don't think this has been a widespread issue on the numismatic versions (i.e. proofs, burnished, etc.) but primarily on the bullion versions which are commonly stored in tubes etc.  I know I have bought rolls in the past and on occasion milk spots have developed, while I've never seen them on any of the proofs or other collector versions purchased from the mint.

On 9/17/2021 at 11:53 PM, robec1347 said:

It took me 10 minutes to get the set in the bag and another 53 minutes fighting crashes, bad handshakes, timeouts, etc before I finally found success. It was much worse than the Peace dollar experience. 

Agreed, it seemed like each time got worse after the second Morgan group, which I think was the smoothest experience of the dysfunctional bunch...

So yesterday like many others I went to the mint website at noon to hopefully order one set of the reverse proof silver eagles for my collection.  The website was way more disjointed than the past few times with the Morgan dollar redos, but perhaps that was the intention.  I had to keep reloading, keep checking out and filling in my information, all told, it took me about 35 minutes and still had no confirmation from the mint website, but I got an alert that my credit card was charged and sure enough I received a confirmation e-mail while the website was still giving me error messages.  The same thing happened to a friend of mine, and apparently he got no e-mail, but tried to order later and it said he couldn't because the limit was one coin, so apparently he got one already.  Then another friend ordered (at least he thinks he got one) but he placed an order an hour or two after they went on sale since they still showed they were available.  So, perhaps the mint making their website more dysfunctional enabled more regular collectors to actually order this limited mintage set (it was 125k, so perhaps not too limited).

On 8/31/2021 at 12:34 AM, GBrad said:

I will have to say: Beautiful coin @jtryka!!! Way outside of my pay grade, and knowledge of coins, but I love your newly acquired coin. I have just barely graduated from Lincolns, trying to work my way into Morgans (help me Lord), and then maybe.... just maybe... I can start learning about coins such as this.  However, @VKurtB forced me to expand my verbiage by his use of  "genuflect".  At least I have that going for me in that I expanded my verbiagecal skill set. (and no, 'vercbiagecal' is not a form of the word but it sounded good and you get the point).

Often when I'm walking by a window and catch a glimpse of my genuflection, I'm reminded of the vexing of the verbose...

On 8/30/2021 at 8:34 AM, Just Bob said:

For some reason, I am having a hard time with this one. O-106?

Yes, this one was a challenge, I believe it's an O-106a, as it has the die cracks through the date and stars on the obverse and up through UNITES STA on the reverse.  The die cracks are not as fully formed, so this might be earlier in the later die state (I'm not sure that sentence makes any sense, but I'll go with it).

I have no expertise in copper, but would be fascinated to see what grades come back from whoever you submit to.

My state doesn't have a sales tax on coins/bullion any more, but I admit that was a factor in the timing of my decision to set up a few times.  I waited until after the repeal of the sales tax as I didn't want to deal with it and only brought non-taxable things to sell (they still charge tax on albums, supplies, etc.).

I did this a few years ago just to sell some items that I no longer wanted/collected.  I bought some second hand cases and some table cloths and lights (be sure to have some good lights to help customers out) and since I knew the dealer that ran the show it was easy and overall a fun experience.  As others have said, be mindful of security going and coming back as well as at the show table.  Price everything before you go and know what room you have to negotiate (a percentage works well, so if you know you have 10%, you can come down $10 on a $100 coin, it's easier to know when to take or decline offers).  Document all that you are bringing and what you sell, so you can at least know if you are missing anything.  I also had a half off box which people could rummage through, and I thought it would be fun for kids, but as it turned out it was more of a pain than anything, so I shifted it to 2x2s in a binder that was half off so people could more easily find specific dates and denominations.  I had no problem with dealers buying from me, but I don't think I offered them significantly different prices.  Hope this helps!

I am not sure I agree that coin grading by TPGs follow a normal distribution.  I think for a variety of reasons they tend to err on the higher grade side vs. an equivalent number of over or undergrades.

I think they took a step back from the previous week, as this one was a lot harder with all the error messages and that stupid, please prove you are human button, but I think I ordered them (won't know for sure until October I guess).  As for the regular proof silver eagles, I just put those on subscription, got an order confirmation 4 hours before they went on sale!  Next challenge will be the reverse proof ASE set...

On 8/9/2021 at 1:46 AM, GoldFinger1969 said:

Looks like gold and silver had a "Flash Crash" like equities did about 11 years ago:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gold-drops-silver-tumbles-u-235316172.html

 

Gold and silver have "flash crashes" on a fairly regular basis.  Nothing to see here, inflation surging, but what better way to prove it's "transitory" than to dump billions in metals on the futures markets in the middle of a Sunday night while everyone is sleeping?

On 8/3/2021 at 10:00 PM, GoldFinger1969 said:

Did Europeans like to hold American gold coins because there was distrust over their own countries quality or honesty in producing gold coins ?    Anybody got any thoughts ?

It seems like either European banks or European dealers or Europeans themselves liked having Liberty's and Saints as opposed to their non-circulating among the public here in the States.

I don't think trust was an issue, as mints issuing non-spec coins would cause them not to be accepted globally.  I think banks holding double eagles or foreign treasuries holding them had more to do with trade flows and the ease of handling a larger coin vs smaller (handling one coin with 0.9675 oz of gold vs. 20F coins at 0.1875 oz per coin.  As for usage, remember the Latin Monetary Union made most of these coins interchangable since they had the same gold content (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy), while other countries had fixed exchange rates as well.  So from a reserve standpoint, I'm not sure they looked at domestic coins differently than dollars, outside of their need for use in commerce (which likely was taken up mainly by silver and subsidiary coinage).  At least that's one man's opinion.