1 hour ago, MarkFeld said:

Like it or not, CAC has a great deal to do with the grade of a coin.

I must disagree.  The coin must be graded by NGC or PCGS BEFORE it is sent to CAC.  When it is returned, with or without the coveted bean, the grade remains the same.  It neither gains nor loses a grade in the process.

1 hour ago, Moxie15 said:

Ultimately if one's most important concern is what CAC thinks then  I question where one's heart truly is.

The problem with your statement is:  CAC has been in business since 2007 and has developed a hobby wide reputation for certifying some of the most appealing coins being offered today.  It is not unreasonable to believe a person new to our hobby has done his homework and read the publicity, comments, etc. about this organization while attempting to acquire information on the hobby..  So, to want the finest coin available may not be a matter of the heart but certainly is a matter of the mind.  However, there are a few who do try to learn anything about collecting.  

11 hours ago, VKurtB said:

A completely new person shows up and right off the bat has a sketchy question

Call me a pessimist but I do not believe this is the first time and in past two months.  The NGC Forum has had more 'Newbies' show up in the last two months than ATS has had in years.  Are we getting popular?

• If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. ...
• Benjamin Franklin

40 minutes ago, RWB said:

a reasonable expectation that coin sellers or TPGs be truthful in all respects?

I would like to present this scenario:  Dealer has a beautiful 1884 NGC MS 66 Carson City Morgan Dollar.  Dealer sends coin to CAC where it is rejected.  In comes Mr. Newbie and falls in love with coin.  Mr. Newbie asks Dealer "Has this been to CAC for a look?"   What do you think the dealer will say?

4 hours ago, Coinbuf said:

If your such an expert why are you asking us?

Exactly.    

Your comment belongs in the Newbie Coin Collecting Questions forum.  Thank you very much.

Guaranteed!  Just a basement slab job.  How much did you pay?

Looks like something from 'back in the day' of Photo Certified.  Who sold it originally?

PS:  NOT an NGC Black Retro Holder and that MS++ is a dead give away.

1 hour ago, DWLange said:

If the USPS is unable to deliver on time it should not be altering the data to hide that fact

I must have missed something.  How is the USPS doing this?  I have delays but mainly because I did something wrong (ie:  request a signature when going to a PO Box).  See below:

Take the 10 bucks and run.  

6 minutes ago, thebeav said:

A category that doesn't even belong in 'feedback' anymore,

Agreed.  One package from Sarasota, FL in 48 hours another in 7 days.  I don't blame the USPS personnel with everybody under the sun doing mail order.  Our little Post Office has had a sign out for close to a year now saying 'Help Wanted - Now Hiring'.  Good luck with that one with Unemployment Comp off the scale.

EBay BIN right now:

33 minutes ago, Buffalo Head said:

I’ve gotta say that I’m excited about these two new coins coming out.

Hope you get what you want and you're welcome to my share.  I bought in to that Old San Francisco Mint Morgan Dollar look alike thinking to flip them real easy.  Sale price = $39.00  EBay today = $32.00

Be careful what you wish for.

Coin World

2021 Morgan and 2021 Peace silver dollars may become annual series

• By Paul Gilkes , Coin World
• Published: May 7, 2021, 7 AM

Nope.  I might have been until the Mint decided to turn it into another States Quarters deal.

I'm also a collector and not a 'Dealer' so that automatically puts them out of my reach.

6 hours ago, Conder101 said:

but no one mentions in with respect to the standing Liberty quarter which has four V's substituting for U's.

A matter of what is more important I would think.  The Peace Dollar is larger and more readily recognized I think.  Just my opinion; that's all.

3 hours ago, Jason Abshier said:

Both standing liberty quarter and peace dollars have it 

There are a lot of monuments and government buildings that substitute the V for our U.  Not just in the US but all over Europe too.  Don't ask me why; I think it would have been just as easy to make a W.  Maybe they ran out of space.

Fiducia is the Latin word for trust.  

In the Latin language originally there was no letter “u”, only “v”. Or rather, there was no distinction, between those two letters. They didn’t have lowercase letters, either.

7 hours ago, Woods020 said:

A full $2/$3 per higher than SD/JM/Apmex etc..

What's their offer?  Sounds interesting and I 've been threatening to get rid of my Silver.  Too heavy and taking up space.

62 if you're lucky but I would say 61.  That obverse really looks roughed up.  Sorry.  

One time, some years ago on the First of December, I mailed a check to a friend of mine, a miner in Chicken, Alaska 380 miles from Anchorage.  After two weeks he started emailing me 'Where is it?"  I kept saying "The check's in the mail"! 

Again and again with the phone calls and emails so I sent another.  Well, on Christmas Eve he called to say he got the one mailed 1 December.  Only 24 days to go 380 miles!    Maybe it went by dog sled, eh? 

Patience is a virtue.  Seldom found in man and never in woman!  

On 5/10/2021 at 11:32 PM, Just Bob said:

Is that Longacre doubling?

I have no idea.  Sorry.

48 minutes ago, J P Mashoke said:

who's to say what will happen this week  

Not me.  Pinehurst wants 38.00 a Generic ounce.

7 minutes ago, Quintus Arrius said:

a little beyond $25.

Kitco today says $27.50.  

1 hour ago, Hoghead515 said:

Alot of the ones alot of people post is strike doubling also.

This is all I have to show you.  What can you tell me about it?