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But can you hold out till you open the package, instead of looking online?!

I tried again to video the King coins you might enjoy 

On 12/30/2019 at 8:13 AM, gherrmann44 said:

I have always loved the way you display your coins. The other sesquicentennial artifacts you picture with the coin are skillfully laid out and make for an excellent presentation with the Declaration of Independence softly portrayed in the background. 

Yes ditto.  Your collage looks like a good auction catalog.  Are there tickets to the fair like I've seen for the Columbian 1892 fair in Chicago?

On 12/27/2019 at 1:05 AM, Mk123 said:

@deposito man o man, good luck!! Got excited looking at the pics of your thai bahts!!!! Keep us updated!!

thanks mike.  I was inspired by your youtube videos.  I will be happy with some straight AU or XFs on those dated Rama V's.  But that one in the middle top, the bright one, is either UNC with some problem or a really nice MS I hope.

On 12/26/2019 at 9:40 PM, Revenant said:

Hopefully none come back in NCS holders.

 

I anticipate an email about residue!  Pray not

Maybe suggest that if she likes that kind of thing, only bid on auctions, and on Heritage or Stacks or something, and then chances are she will not get robbed, just possibly overbid a little.

If someone likes clicking and getting things in the mail, which I can sympathize with, the impulse can at least be sort of sequestered

I have had coin packages lost or at least not accounted for for a long time.  Or sent on crazy journeys to different POs around my city being told it was there, no there, no its out for delivery.  Then a couple days later it gets delivered.  Tracking can be right, or wrong.  Something I send out w tracking gets picked up but is not in the system for a week, making it look like I never sent it.  Except for something I returned to Australia, nothing has been totally lost yet, just really delayed.  Also USA customs checked a coin from the UK and I got the envelope opened with no coin in it.  The shipper got their insurance $, I believe, and they gave me a credit.

Check this one out  "ALERT"   https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=RR002220636SM&utm_source=alertxdd&utm_medium=email&utm_content=tracking-number&utm_campaign=trackingnotify

That doesn't look good.  Nice coins in there.  But actually it was in my mailbox about 10 days ago, and all OK.  The post guy must have just forgot to scan it as delivered, or to have the desk sign for it.  I gave him the envelope to scan a couple days later and told him I got it and I hoped there was no problem on his end.  But a week or more later and USPS still shows it as "ALERT Delivery exception"

It could always be worse.  See:

https://coinweek.com/people-in-the-news/crime-and-fraud/numismatic-crime-alerts-coin-dealer-robbed-after-show-stolen-packages/

Thankfully you know your stuff is not hyper-valuable, but these guys have crazy coins out in the mail

Learning backwards from coins is effective, for me at least.  Somehow having the thing in your hand gives you the motivation, and mnemonic anchor, to stick what you learn in your head better.  Now you've got some motivation, maybe.  And the more you have, the more you will probably find out about how they go together, in time and place, from around the Med Sea or wherever they're from.  And if they're bronze / copper, 2,400 year old coins are not usually very expensive.

to what MK said, it's never easy to find a way to people's registry, for me, without a direct link, or just putting pics in a post here.  

Also, to get info, you can scroll through ancient sections of past auctions on Numisbids and sixbid to see what is out there.

Mr Coin you seem to know a lot about this area - any leads on a real nice 1/2 cent or larger denom from 1916 of Dutch East Indies ?

On 11/11/2019 at 7:18 PM, coin928 said:

It's interesting that you mention the 1916-S 20C.  I acquired a raw one last year for a reasonable XF/AU price and had it graded in August 2018.  It turned out to be one of my most satisfying acquisitions.

 

well done on this 20C !  That must be a good feeling.  I have seen notes about the "tilted" varieties, but am not advanced, I just want a shiny one.  Yours has some nice blue towards the bottom

I feel your pain re: anticipating new padded envelopes in the mailbox withdrawal, and budget deficits

Nice quarter though!  If we can cut spending for a few months, we might pull out of this nosedive and stabilize

Left unsaid is the fact that the re-holder put your coin into the new kind of case where we can see the rims and deal less with obstructive foam shadows around the edge.

I send older NGC coins back for a reholder based on that alone, without expecting an upgrade.  It's also an excuse to break them out and video them before they get back behind the plastic.

I just discovered these PH coins a couple years ago when I started putting together a set of coins from every country of 1916.  For 1916 the biggest PH one you can get is the 20C.  Those are a tough date but they are around on Ebay and auctions - for a lot in the higher grades.  Mine is AU details hairlines and does not have the luster or color I want.  I recently gave my buddy a 1911 PH peso on range day since he is himself of PH descent, and into handguns.  It's a great-looking huge silver USA coin that most people don't know exists

On 10/10/2019 at 8:56 AM, gherrmann44 said:

I don't crack anything out anymore. NGC/PCGS it doesn't matter. If I like the coin, it stays in the holder. If I have an incomplete NGC registry set because the holder is not the right one, then so be it. Because after all, is it not more important that I have a complete set of coins than a complete registry set? Yeah, I wish things were the way they were but they are not. So I have adapted and moved on. I do try to buy NGC holdered coins but if I like a PCGS holdered coin and I buy it, it stays in the PCGS holder. That said, I'm glad for PCGS coins still being allowed in custom sets.

There is another problem with crossing PCGS coins over and its financial. I cannot lie to myself about the market perception of PCGS holdered coins. The market favors PCGS when it comes to classic US coins. That's just my perception. Another thing that I find interesting is that the grading companies guarantee grade and authenticity. With that you are less likely to get a bump because the guarantee will fall to the new company. Prime example and I hated to see these crossed to PCGS was the Newman Confederate half-dollar and the 1854-S half-eagle. They both crossed at the same grade to PCGS. When big money is on the line grading is much more critical and both NGC and PCGS are a lot more careful handing out high grades. 

I break stuff out of ANACS and PCGS to send into NGC sometimes.  And, I break out old NGC holders where you can't see any rim, to send back into NGC.  The only reason I break the coins out instead of sending in the slab is because I want to video / photo the coin out of the plastic.  I have nothing anywhere close to MS70, so if something drops from MS62 to MS60, as has happened once from PCGS to NGC, I can handle it.  They tell me they will not honor any kind of guarantee because I broke them out.  Haven't had them drop their own grade down yet. 

 I have had quite a few ANACS hammered world coins grade up at NGC, like AU58 to MS62. 

My USA coins that are in PCGS holders though, I do not plan to break out, because my understanding is that 

congratulations that sounds like a lot of vindication, and tribute to pay to the Ebay gods

I want them to go up.  Later.  As I watch auctions I see coins I don't buy, Chinese ones, seeming to go up.  I mean the old classic end of the 19th century early 20th century mostly silver (and gold if you're rich) ones

All the thousands of donated cents were wheat backs, or just some of them?  Those, and sometimes a silver dime or quarter, are the only nonjunk coins that were ever possible to find in circulation when I was a kid. 

I got 62,233 pennies as a first payment of $622.33 from a spiteful individual, dropped off at my office in 2009.  It was not easy to get a bank to take them; I had to handcart them to the main branch downtown.  I did not search them.

yeah I have to show I am always packing up envelopes and selling coins on Ebay and saying "sad to see this one go, had it since 2010" real loud in front of her.  And whenever fedex comes, it's just another catalog.  NGC is great because when coins come, maybe they were already mine to begin with

It is good to take your coins out, in natural sunlight, especially since yours are gold.  I haven't done the research, but I suspect regular gold in sunlight viewing is therapeutic even through the slab.  

On 8/25/2019 at 8:23 PM, Iceman said:

Those are some super nice coins you have and a very interesting story about the dates. Now I have to keep a eye out for that scarce date when I'm at any coin show. 

Thanks. You figure at a coin show they know what they're selling.  But on Ebay, magic can happen. 

On 8/27/2019 at 1:44 PM, Mokiechan said:

Always fascinating to learn about some other part of our vast hobby.   I have quite a lot of Japanese coins but nothing from Thailand, I Too, need to keep my eyes peeled at the October PAN show.

I am looking to get some decent 1880s-1910s Japanese and Chinese silver.  I've got a 1916 50 Sen but I need the whole Yen

Yes I am a refresher

1 hour ago, Mk123 said:

Deposito great collection of thai coins. I've sent you several private messages from the NGC registry side since you have a custom thai registry just like I have but alas no response ever from you. It looks like your not interested in sharing information, etc with another american collector, what a shame.

Hi - I just didn't know.    I will look to see how to see messages.  Always happy to share with other collectors of these great classic Thai coins

I just checked on my "deposito" page for the envelope icon, it says no messages.  Am I missing something?

Hi - I just didn't know.    I will look to see how to see messages.  Always happy to share with other collectors of these great classic Thai coins

It is important to take the coins out and examine them together.  

How to see the pictures ?  I clicked through to your name but I believe that was limited to this journal.  Vikings?  Thanks

Thanks guys I cleaned it up myself and it still tasted weird