Hoghead515

Or if the charged so much of it up front. That way they can get some of it anyways.

I wouldn't do them that way. I would try to show them a little respect. That would be annoying. There are people out there that do stuff like that. Don't care to disrespect people.

That's how I've always submitted was online. That's what you do when you fill out the line on the form. Give an estimate and they tell you what it'd gonna cost right then. Before you even print it. And you also gotta click the box that says you agree to their rules. Then write your credit card info on the form and mail it in. Unless you use check. I don't think they will even grade it unless they receive a form of payment. Or That's the way I took it anyways.

That's probably why they really want you to submit thru a dealer. People like that will probably ruin it for everybody.

I think they charge you by what value you write in that they are worth. Is the way I understood it when I've submitted. But the only coin that had a higher value I turned in was less than $1000. V75 eagle.

looks like a 47 to me. May be wrong.

I'm the very same way. I'd rather have the coin. I can care less about money. Don't get me wrong I would love to have a bunch of money. But If I had some rare coins worth alot of money I'd have to be in very bad shape before I sold them. I'd rather pass them down thru the family. I'm more in the collecting aspect than the making money. I love admiring my coins and reading about them. And thinking about the people who made them. And where all that coin has been. Of course a person will never know where all its been but I got a very large imagination. My coins aren't for sale neither. Which I don't really have nothing special anyone would want. Buy if I did then it wouldn't neither.

I would absolutely love to go even if I didn't buy anything. I'd fall in love with just looking at everything and talking about it. But the dealers probably hate to see people like me. Wasting their time.

@Conder101 told me about a couple close to me back in the fall. I'll have to go look through those old threads and see where he said they was. Getting to thinking. Actually that may have been coin clubs we was talking about at the time.

I enjoy any kind of history like that. Anytime we was ever out somewhere and passed a museum of any kind I had to stop. There's nothing like actually getting to look at old pieces of history right there in front of you. Now that I'm into this hobby I'd love to check out alot of the earlier coins they struck when they were fist trying to establish a mint. One of these days I'm planning on taking a trip to the Smithsonian also. That would be so much fun. From every thing I've read up on these shows are a blast too. And the members on here seem to have a blast when they go. I'll make it to one one of these days.

Here's the difference in the regular and cheerios dollars. See the tail feathers.

I may have to try and get in on the FUN show next year. That give me time to stuff that possum hole in the floor full of money.

People has been known to do that here too. I been aiming to search behind the upstairs walls. Never have yet.

That house of mom's is only about a 1/4 inch off. Towards the middle of the room. It's a 3 story. I'd say the weight of it over the years done that. It's got a half basement. They used a massive beam in the middle. Got those support poles under it to. The ones that's threaded you can raise up and down. It was out a little more when we first moved there. Dad and I raised them a little and helped it some. To where it is now. Couldn't do much more with it.

That's when my mom's house was built. In the 1890s. They sure built it right too. BIG oak 2x12 floor joist. Them old carpenters sure built stuff strong.

They can get the old heart pumping. That one I saw in Nebraska had me tore all to pieces. When that hail started pounding on the truck it sounded like people beating it with baseball bats. The wind was shaking the truck. Here we sit right out in the wide open. I'm glad it didn't come any closer. It looked like a pretty good size one.

Keep searching my friend. You will find a good one soon

Badly damaged

That sounds like the perfect story.

Hopefully one of these days I can meet you all at a coin show somewhere. I can't wait to go to one and see all the rare coin displays. I'm very excited just thinking about it. Never have been. I've seen nice rare coins on the internet but I want to see them in real life and discuss some with the other collectors and numismatic scholars. I truly would love that. I think im gonna find me another rather, or possum hole, in the wall and start stuffing it a little here and there. That way when I do get to go I'd love to bring home a souvenir. Then I can tell my grandkids I got that coin at so and so show. Tell em I was sitting there loafing with zadok or goldfinger or whoever and looked down and there she was. I'd just love to add some kind of memory like that to my collection and can share it with my children and grandchildren. And then maybe they can pass it down to they're children or whoever. And tell them about the story of old grandpa scoring that coin. The story don't have to go exactly like that. Just an example. I can't wait to go learn some history and admire some of the finest coins in the world and maybe bring some kind of nice example home. I love making good memories. You all probably think im weird now after saying all that. Lol. I just enjoy things like that.

The reason they tagged them not genuine is because they were counterfeit. And they are not robbing you out of $1000. They tell you if you read the terms and conditions they are going to charge the grading fee if your coins make a grade or not. The grading fee is charged no matter what. Which happened to be $1000. It's the person who is submitting the coins responsibility to read the terms and rules before they send them in. I learned a long time ago about everything I do to read the fine print. They explain it clearly.

This guy found out all his coins were counterfeits. How do you say, "Sitting and crying in a cave."

Also under terms and conditions I'm pretty sure it says that you will be charged whether it gets encapsulated or not. They tell you ahead of time. So it should be up to you to make sure of what you got before you take the risk of sending it in. It's not like they surprise you with it. They warn you ahead of time if you read everything.

There's no way I would crack them out of that if they were mine. I would love to have a proof set in one of those holders graded.

Those was some bad ones that hit down there. We was a praying for everyone down in there at the time. It leveled alot of places. Where we are we get small ones sometimes. Not too often. Have got a couple major ones that leveled a couple towns. I think the hills help us a little. I need to build a storm cellar. I'm right at the mouth of a wide open holler. Live in a double wide to. They have a bad history with tornados.