Jalistair

Why, resale value of coins. The higher the sold price of a coin is, the more it drives up the market. The lower the historical sale price of a coin is, the more it drives down the market. So, let's say I have a coin in my collection and I see another one selling for less money at auction. I can let it go and someone can pick it up at prices I can never pick up coins at, or I can bid at a price I am willing to pay for the coin and add it to my collection. If the other bidder wants the coin more than I am willing to pay for a duplicate, they can have it.

Simple, I don't want someone getting the same coin I did for a lower price. So if I am buying a coin, I snipe it. If I have the coin I will bid a price I am willing to pay to duplicate the coin and if someone wants it more, they can pay for it.

Depends on what I am attempting to do. If I want to win the item, I attempt to snipe it. If I simply want to run up the price, I bid and see how things go.

I suspect most will simply continue on. Look at the coinage we have out right now, most people out there have no clue what is on the back of the coins. Why? Because less is more. When you had an eagle on the back of Washington and then you changed it to a drummer-boy for a single year, people were excited to find something different in their change. Now? As a coin collector I don't even know what was on the back of last years quarters let alone any other quarter over the last five years or so. We should have gone back to the eagle as soon as the 50 states were complete. Now it simply doesn't matter anymore.

Unless I missed the email it seems this may have been cast aside. Are we going to have the option for an Edward VII ruler set on Canadian coins for 1902-1910 as we do for Victoria 1858-1901, George V 1911-1936, George VI 1937-1952, and Elizabeth II from 1953-date? It seems kind of odd that a nine year period is simply missing out of this series of collections. Thank you, Joshua

Hello, For the Canada Ruler Type sets NGC has Victoria, the two Georges, and Elizabeth. Why don't we have the Edward Ruler set? Can we get that added? Thank you.

Fair enough.

I believe NGC is in the business of grading coins. As such one would expect that a few coins come through the NGC offices each year to be graded. One service offered is the Variety Plus. NGC has graded most if not all of these listed varieties as well. Yet when you look at NGC's tab for the Variety Plus you may read the title of the variety, however there are NO photos and now written descriptions. (At least when looking at Canadian coins.) Would it not be in the best interests of NGC to take high quality photos of the coins they grade. Then when you have a variety to post a photo of the variety along with a written description of what you are looking at in the variety. Then, when a collector is deciding if they are going to send a coin to NGC to be graded, they could look at the variety in order to help decide IF the coin is worth grading!

Come on guys, a collector found a coin they like. Why rain on their parade?