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...yea but can u 'rassle a nittany lion n swim 'gainst the 'bama tide at the same time?....

...im not sure u can be the huckleberry here, i think sharann from mississippi had dibs on that first....maybe u can be the forum raspberry?...but stay away from the dingle area of the patch....

Even if it was an error , world error coins carry little to no premium . Unlike a U.S coins . Error coin collecting is a U.S fetish … I’ve seen tons of errors and double dies and off stuck world coins nobody cared 

Here’s a novel idea. If SEC teams do nothing but knock each other off, as happens in other conferences, let’s just have a thought that there could be a four team playoff with NO SEC team in it. Just like every other conference. 
Right now, there’s a conference that has 5 of the top 10 teams in the country. Hint: it AIN’T the SEC. Think farther north. Those are the boys playing the toughest schedules. Penn State is good, real good. But if Sean Clifford is hurt bad, they’ll be lucky to win 2 more games. 

I presume a few coins I really wanted to buy might have been available at shows I did not attend which was most.  However, most of my primary set has come from auctions supplemented by a few coins from dealers and eBay.
It's come to the point now where my only option will likely be approaching dealers to find it for me.  This year, I have bought one coin and was outbid on two.  Nothing else showed up which I wanted to buy.
The reason I have arrived at my current state is a combination of factors.  Most coins don't interest me anymore.  Even if it did, I'm not paying current prices which I deem excessive for such ordinary material and this applies to both US and non-US. Selling is also less predictable (in my recent experience) than it used to be.
Years ago, I could have put together a high quality decent sized secondary collection on a modest budget (high four figures to maybe slightly over $10k) on coins I used to buy or others I might have bought.
No longer.  In another thread, I gave an example of a coin I bought in 1998 for $45.  More recently, Stacks sold four from slight over $700 to $900.  Not happened to everything but nicer quality (this was MS-64) is more than I am willing to pay.
I'm not paying this type of price for what I describe as undistinguished mediocrity.

I wonder if the sun would shine a little better for collectors if they bothered to educate themselves before buying? 
Counterfeiters may suck, but they only get away with it because collectors insist on remaining uneducated. 

Every stinking day of my life, man. Every stinking day. I couldn’t believe it. My wife’s whole family thought ‘Bama would only drop to #2 behind Georgia. They were SERIOUS. The SEC derangement syndrome is ridiculous! All the officials stink. 
 
If SEC fans were given sodium pentathol, they’d admit they believe a three loss SEC team has a superior claim to the playoffs to any other undefeated team. It’s a real mental illness down here. 

I detect a subtle sense of self-promotion here.  Who better than you to run things?

Okay, then what has improved about the NGC board experience? I’ll wait.  But I get it, Roger, really I do. Only YOU are allowed to notice when things get worse, like any discussion board does when you participate in it. Only you get to decide that coin grading should stay as it was in the 80’s before TPGS firms. All technical nick-picking and nothing else. 
“as it came off the dies” Sheesh! What utter BS! Ooh, ooh, is that “perception bias” too? 
 
Gimme a stinking break, man. 

u should have been more vigilant......but to get back to ur original topic, my first registration, mid 1970s was a 6 digit number, i allowed it to lapse in late '80s n when renewed in early '90s they gave me a new number altogether...but ur update informative n poses interesting question.....

...i wonder how long its going to take before the "woke" members of congress demand that the word "tails" is removed from the official news release?....

I figured I’d add a couple of facts here to illustrate which commenter is err, umm, full of poop with his opinions about opinions, and these are FACTS, real verifiable ones, not ones sucked out of a helium balloon in Virginia.
BOTH the 1951 and 1960 Prooflike crowns are WIDELY RECOGNIZED throughout the hobby, and NOT some invention by any TPGS firm. Both of them are given their own separate listing in the Standard Catalog of World Coins, and indeed the 1960 lists a separate mintage for the prooflike.
Now if YOU want to trust the words that come out of the “gentleman” (as if…) from Virginia’s mouth or come shooting out of his fingers onto his keyboard, welp, I don’t know how to help you. To each his own, I suppose. I choose to pay him no mind as a source on ANYTHING.  He is as welcome as the next guy to have his own opinions, but he‘s NOT entitled to mislabel them as facts, and worse yet, dismiss ACTUAL facts as mere opinion. That is as close to a practical definition of “ignorant” as I’ve yet seen.

...but, but, but...marianne on ur beloved roosters is wearing a phrygian cap...???...

all it needs now is a little S below the bow knot n u r in business....

good luck with that, so far none cert in that grade.......

Never heard of those but will definitely make a note of it.  My wife and I both have cataracts.  My sister calls our situation "the blind leading the blind."  In deference to my wife's difficult life and devotion to God, I let her call the shots. Every day, when she turns to me and says, [Ahn ah-LAY, cherie!] it's is not a suggestion; it's a civil command to return to jail (our home) where she, naturally, is the capo di tutti capo. The seven years we've spent together have been the best years of my life.   🐓 

Oh Roger, you should have learned by now that snide is a complete given. But ignorant is YOUR stock in trade. I’d never want to intrude on your exclusive domain.

all it needs now is a little S below the bow knot n u r in business....

all it needs now is a little S below the bow knot n u r in business....

Well its already a 99% clown show so what is 1% more. 

...we already have a marionette show so why not bring in the clowns...maybe even a trick pony too....

...maybe we should elect our representatives with a buy out clause, if they suck we just buy out the rest of their term...im sure i can find some donors to raise the cash...

And to have three of the five have attributes that @RWB doesn’t approve of is just icing on the cake! It’s a great day.

...maybe we should elect our representatives with a buy out clause, if they suck we just buy out the rest of their term...im sure i can find some donors to raise the cash...

...maybe we should elect our representatives with a buy out clause, if they suck we just buy out the rest of their term...im sure i can find some donors to raise the cash...