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Alex in PA.

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    Alex in PA. got a reaction from Coinbuf in Road Trip   
    Alaska Airlines for one had a walk out of pilots wanting more coin and better conditions.  With some others it was a bad weather front in Florida.
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    Alex in PA. reacted to DWLange in Road Trip   
    I'm sure everyone has heard about the meltdown in airline flights over the weekend. This affected the NGC team as it left the Whitman Baltimore show Saturday afternoon. Our direct flight from BWI to Sarasota was cancelled, and we were redirected to Columbus, Ohio with a connecting flight to Sarasota. After boarding the Columbus flight, we were then told that there would be no connecting flight before Tuesday night! The six of us elected to instead rent a van at BWI and drive the entire way, rotating stints at the wheel. It took us 18 hours to get home.
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    Alex in PA. got a reaction from tj96 in For the love of silver   
    One heck of a nice Merc there tj.
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    Alex in PA. reacted to tj96 in For the love of silver   
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    Alex in PA. reacted to Fenntucky Mike in For the love of silver   
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    Alex in PA. reacted to Coinbuf in I've been done wrong   
    I figured that there was more to the story than the op was telling.  
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    Alex in PA. reacted to GoldFinger1969 in I've been done wrong   
    Not only "more to the story"....key material facts ?
    Steve, you implied that NGC did you wrong and it appears you were grossly in error -- or worse, lying -- about how they treated you.  Maybe you didn't know they had refunded the $$$ to you.  We can't know for sure.
    But they clearly did NOT keep your money for ungraded coins.  NGC has come on and very succintly and definitively stated what they did and it appears 100% legit and fair. 
    You should explain what you meant and what your OP was about. 
     
     
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    Alex in PA. reacted to Lem E in Post your most recent acquisition: US   
    Very nice piece. Unfortunately they won’t CAC business strikes unless it is a 43/2 or one of the others. There are only certain Jeffs that will get a bean. Mainly old proofs and a few others. If you go to the CAC website, they have a list of Jeffs that qualify. Actually, here are the ones that qualify directly from the CAC website.

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    Alex in PA. reacted to The Neophyte Numismatist in Post your most recent acquisition: US   
    I got this one off EBay last night.  The 1944-D is not a hard coin to get with FS.  BUT - this one came in a (NGC MS67+ 5FS) holder, and when you look MS68FS, the prices go CrAzY!  Hopefully, Albanese will give it a green bean - time will tell.  Either way, I am excited to have this one, CAC would just be icing.
     


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    Alex in PA. reacted to Lem E in Post your most recent acquisition: US   
    Picked this one up as well. 



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    Alex in PA. reacted to LINCOLNMAN in Help! Is this Coin Worth a Lot?   
    If you were an old geezer like me the name JB Tipton would have tipped you off. John Baresford Tipton was the benefactor in a show popular in the 50's called The Millionaire. 
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    Alex in PA. reacted to GoldFinger1969 in Help! Is this Coin Worth a Lot?   
    Biggest fraud since Cosmo Kramer ate that hot dog at the Bijou that was there from the Silent Era.  
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    Alex in PA. reacted to RWB in Civil War Gold   
    This in the "Big Foot" and "Yeti" category of nonsense.
    Add some critical thinking and the "mystery" vanishes.
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    Alex in PA. reacted to Hoghead515 in Civil War Gold   
    What Im trying to understand. Is if they were taking it to the Philly mint, if I read it right, why would they go through the trouble to bury it if they were already up there close to it? I may have read it wrong. Sometimes I have to read something 3 or 4 times to get it to sink in. 
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    Alex in PA. got a reaction from James Zyskowski in Is CoinTalk.com a scam?   
    I have no idea how I have avoided his long reach all these years.   
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    Alex in PA. got a reaction from Hoghead515 in Civil War Gold   
    the FBI's dig for Civil War-era gold in Dents Run, Pa.   Actually, it's buried in my back yard.  Civil War buried gold!  
    Yep.  They have been roaming the Hyner Mountain areas for decades looking for the 'Lost Prussian Castle" built on a high mountain top in Clinton County centuries ago.  Believe Lafayette slept there.
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    Alex in PA. got a reaction from Hoghead515 in Is CoinTalk.com a scam?   
    I have no idea how I have avoided his long reach all these years.   
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    Alex in PA. reacted to VKurtB in Is CoinTalk.com a scam?   
    I have always maintained that while it’s really tough to do numismatics without history, it’s downright IMPOSSIBLE to completely keep economics out of it. And where you find economics, you find his identical twin, politics. Pretending you can do numismatics completely without references to politics is frankly idiotic. 
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    Alex in PA. reacted to VKurtB in Is CoinTalk.com a scam?   
    You clearly have not encountered Doug at CT. 100% arbitrary and capricious, and he literally even brags about being that way. 
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    Alex in PA. got a reaction from Hoghead515 in Is CoinTalk.com a scam?   
    @Vess1  Sorry to hear you got banned.  I belong to CT but I only read the posts that I'm interested.  I also say it's not a "scam".  Sounds like an OP with hurt feelings.  Well, I'm off to watch General Hospital; have a good day.
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    Alex in PA. reacted to VKurtB in Wondering if this is mint error or damage later? It looks different than other damaged coins I've seen. Metal looks moved and set not moved from damage, if that makes sense?   
    I once had bathroom floor tile with a pattern that would change DISTANCE spontaneously when I was drunk or tired. Freaky. 
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