deposito

i have a lot of tooth marks on slabs from my kid, one I had to get reholdered.  now he has become a slab skeptic and just wants to eat raw coins

I ordered some different kind of display things for sets of slabs from China I will post some pictures of coins in.

On 7/12/2021 at 4:30 PM, Revenant said:

Have you seen the presidential dollars? The American Innovation series? Are they really that different? 

I hadn't, I just looked them up, and of course you're right our mint is leading the way defacing abundant junkmetal 

I guess I still feel like I have one last refuge in our regular circulating pennies dimes and nickles, the infrequent halves. 

Most quarters still look right... on one side.

Thailand has a bimetallic 10 Baht coin, which is a big hitter a 7 Eleven, but I still have reservations about more than one color on a coin.  I'm sure that's somethingphobic

remind him that he can stack the coins, and fifty cents beats a quarter

from what I am witnessing, coins are selling at good prices lately so mazel tov and may the dough be with you

any reason to pick GC over Heritage or what made you pick them?  

that 2002 coin with the bird on the thing on it looks like Aztec or Egyptian art.  But these all resemble arcade tokens.  I recently learned a little about Great Zimbabwe, the ancient city there, too bad things went this way.

I am with youall the way on keeping everything in the same pronged style ngc holders not the old no-rim plugged hole kind

And yeah leave all prongs it is confusing to the uninitiated to see coins with weird bite marks out of them

great work I know how satisfying it is to get a uniform looking group 

I see these tokens, it is sad, and wonder how long till we live at Chuck E Cheese too

There's no way my wife is finding out what the coins are worth till I'm dead.  Or that will happen right after she finds out. 

US Mint has nothing I want.  I'd take those gold 1916 rehashes from 2016 if I found them in a parking lot, but that's about it.

I think at least for the late 1800s italy and friends were in a "Latin monetary union" that broke down when it turned out the vatican was quietly debasing its coins

kaiser is collectable always.  made a great coin say whatever else you want about him.  I sold one of those 1900 20 marks 2 years ago and sort of regret that. 

On 3/11/2021 at 2:01 PM, JT2 said:

tell that to my ex-wifes new (@) (@) ......

any lady too good for legos instead of a rock isn't good enough for my tent

yeah when I saw your post headline I was afraid I'd learn that NGC slabs disintegrate after 25 years or something.  so much for "conservation."  glad to hear that's not the story

We need a slow release dermal .900 silver patch to aid with coin withdrawal. of course we'd wind up wearing dozens of them and still bidding

It does feel good, incidentally, to lean your head back and put a silver dollar on your forehead for a while.  Hope it helps, and the FDA has not evaluated these comments 

but Legos are forever

I save a fortune looking just at the front of coins

you need to make sure the kids and wife know how to avoid depressing the floor tile that fires the spear 

On 3/2/2021 at 8:25 PM, Revenant said:

Of course, now I find this and I'm very intrigued. It's a lot like a small shot glass cabinet my wife gave me several years ago. But I'm worried it might be too much / over kill.

yeah I've seen that thing.  3 is about perfect, 2 could make sense, and 5 or 6 would be a topping off point for a nice little gift set or breakout collection I think.  The wall case?  Maybe to fill with nonsense tokens as burglar bait but not for anything you actually like.  Important to have a bunch of gold and silver electroplated bars and coins somewhere that will get found easily, can't beat this display to get them on the right path

my avatar image is an old silver coin.  collecting coins was a way to help me stop caring about metals prices.

I've been looking at this kind of stuff too, considering kinds of 2-3 coin sets that could look good together in a nice box or frame.  I saw those 3 slab wood boxes for about $30 on ebay, haven't committed yet.  Any 3 gold coins ought to look good together!  Put up a picture if you actually get one of these and put the slabs in it.  I got one 3-part one last year, foam not wood, that doesn't fit PCGS, only NGC slabs.  I think most other items selling now out there found a way to fit both and they say so in the description. 

Glad you survived your ordeal with some sense of humor too.  That whole Texas thing has really added to the growing pile of things making me really want to move out to somewhere I can own a generator and store more stuff 

2 minutes ago, deposito said:

tell your wife to mail you coins from your own collection.  getting coins in the mail takes the edge off.

anyone you trust

tell someone you trust to mail you coins from your own collection.  getting coins in the mail takes the edge off.

I just pray all involved were triple masked

I always like hearing stories about how people get into coin collecting; and usually it is about how they get BACK into it after stopping in their 2nd decade of life for a long time

is the "https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/WCM" considered  the "old" website?
That's all I use.  My sets are only custom sets, most of my coins are not eligible for any registry or points.

I hope they don't drop that, since I sort of use it to keep track of my stuff $-wise etc.