Henri Charriere

I'll allow it. He is in search of the Truth that Leads to Eternal Life.

(Saved yourself a bundle on an unnecessary submission costs. Go out and get yourself a strawberry milk shake.)

"Why is there no mint mark?" Reminiscent of the voice heard in the Garden of Eden: "Who told you you were naked?"

(Oh, saw you in that old-school hip-hop video, All that Jazz, when you wuz with Stetsasonic.)

🐓: First time in my life I saw "I'll" spelled as "il." Q.A.: It happens. I just hope he doesn't do that over there. "Incapacitated?" I don't think he was talking about the coin!!! Ah, well.

IGWT had appeared on smaller coins for decades at this juncture. The Two-Cent piece first minted in 1864, bore the motto first. It had a diameter of 23 mm. The Lincoln Head cent, likely in design stage in 1908, had a diameter of 19.05 mm and has sported this motto since 1909, a year after the letter was written, and presumably without complication. The Half-Eagle, minted since 1839, had a 21.6 mm diameter [only 6/10 mm larger than a French 20-franc gold rooster]. If a Lincoln Head, with a smaller diameter than the Half-Eagle, could be rendered with the motto, I fail to see why placing it on the Half-Eagle would have presented a problem. My .

I do not believe fear of confiscation would be a consideration. I also do not believe it is in anybody's collection. I do know, wherever it is, it would command a sky's-the-limit price at auction.

It is not a debacle by any means. Incrementalization, I feel, was a mistake and the fact that TPG hasn't caught on in Europe decades after its introduction, is telling. The 10-point scale appeals to my esthetic sense, but how I feel is not important. It's the up-and-coming generation and certifications of other collectibles that use the scale, that really matters. I am guessing this is being marketed with those younger collectors in mind. It will have no effect on dinosaurs like me. Everything that is already certified will remain entombed in their respective sarcophagi.

🐓: Wrong coin, notwithstanding, a member was still able to provide the OP with an answer to his question! Q.A.: Is this place great or what? Man I love this place! 🤣

I would post it in the Ask NGC column. Maybe someone will recognize the "knot" and distinctive denticles.

Glad you dropped by. Nice hearing from you!

Crypto is for young people who can afford to take some risk. I am 72 and do what old folks do: talk about the weather and what ails me.

Q.A.: To recap... Convicted: 7 cts of fraud, conspiracy, money laundering. Sentence: 25 years imprisonment; forfeiture of assets: $11.2 B; fines: $1.1 B. 🐓: Is this your quaint way of suggesting we take up a collection? Q.A.: Realistically speaking, I don't think he can make a billion dollars to pay off that fine banging out license plates. I was going to suggest a modest donation of one dollar... 🐓 : z's got you pegged dead-to-rights. You've lost it, pardner!

🐓: Just between you and me, you're right!

🐓: They've got a new name for you. Q.A.: What's that? 🐓 : Strip miner. Q.A.: Sheesh!

Or, drive a car, and bring a friend.

I shall only go so far as to suggest the query is highly irregular (and possibly unorthodox) without further elaboration. (And even after responding as I have with remarkable restraint, I suspect I may have stuck my neck out waaay too far, by simply entertaining the thought.)

To the OP: Begging your indulgence to allow me to proceed with posting the following intra-thread comment... [ @VKurtB: U.S. citizenship is generally not noted by the media in reporting crime. However, today, if the offender were a migrant, that likely would have been reported. Voter registration is not typically a concern of recidivist criminals. I know enough about elections to know while there may no longer be a poll tax or literacy requirement, there is a residency requirement and, as such, one must cast a ballot at his local polling place where the registration books are kept. Where one used to live, and whether they were allowed to vote there, is irrelevant. (Do you remember that Archie Bunker episode where he was denied the vote because he had not voted recently?) When you move, where your current residence is, dictates whether you can vote in county, state or Federal elections. Too, whether you are registered in a party determines whether you can cast a ballot in a primary. When I go vote, if my name is not in the book at the table maintained by election officials at my assigned polling place for the 55th Election- and 68th Assembly-Districts in New York County, I cannot vote.]

Short of coming out and making, what my wife calls, a "day-clah-rah-S'YON" (declaration) or issuing a proclamation, I believe it safe to say the $259.70 I paid for one of my earliest raw Roosters, only a scant five years ago, is a thing of the past. So too, are the Roosters in the $300 to $399 range. Today, any raw Roosters being sold by the major bullion dealers go for between $410 and $420. I was secretly hoping the rising gold spot price would result in greater availability of certain dates in the Rooster series, but that has failed to materialize. I would imagine Double-Eagle collectors would be sitting pretty right about now.

Comeback: I was made aware only recently that NGC's submissions are made in one office, unlike PCGS. I happen to agree with you; if I did not, I would not have had the unmitigated gall of weighing in. (In the absence of emojis depicting lying prostrate or genuflection, I give you this: )

🐓: Looks like your fanciful term, "High Wire," for "wire rim," hasn't caught on... Q.A.: What can I say? You win some, you lose some. Now, if you're talking "Speared Eagle," that'll take. That's catchy.

Note: For the particulars regarding the silver dollars that were taken, see a new Topic posted by @Jason Abshier entitled, "List of Coin Dealers that got Robbed."

Be nice, Kurt. The man will have paid his debt to society.

With discretionary release off the table with the disbanding of the Federal parole board, this guy can expect to serve more than 20 years, minus accrued jail time. Does the punishment fit the crime? Pretty stiff sentence for a first offender, but like Bernie Madoff, I don't believe those victimized would have stood for anything less. Here, justice triumphed again.

You do make a convincing argument; unfortunately, I do not know the answer. All the more compelling considering all certifications are handled centrally in one U.S. office. In my series, I noticed all of the [PCGS] coins slabbed overseas bore a standard French catalog number in contrast to the coins slabbed state-side. Two offices, two ways of doing things. Member Sandon makes a valid point, but as a matter of curiosity I would want to know why there is no uniform system of citation in certifications.