• When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

124Spider

Member
  • Posts

    217
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Recent Profile Visitors

341 profile views
  1. This is the first time I've posted here in over six months (and it likely will be the last time for the foreseeable future), because I just wanted to give full props to JKK for an absolutely perfect post. This is a remarkably hostile place, with too many people who never got over being middle-school bullies. It's just not fun to hang out here (ask Mohawk about that...). Most of you are fine, but there are enough people who are consistently unpleasant that one is quickly put to the choice of being a troll, or going elsewhere. I went elsewhere; Mohawk went elsewhere; I'm sure lots of others have gone elsewhere. But you who somehow get your kicks by being nasty (it takes a particularly type of warped human to get off on being anonymously nasty to people you'll never meet) make this a very unpleasant place to hang out. It's NGC's choice to coddle such people (and the choice of the rest of you to put up with it, instead of calling them out). It's the choice of the rest of us to spend our time (and certification money) elsewhere. I'm gone again; but I wanted to put an exclamation point on JWW's fine post. Mark
  2. You keep telling yourself that. You're the one who gratuitously demonized someone in your first post. I merely pointed out the inappropriateness of much of your post. If others here like having someone who makes malignant posts, that's not a reflection on me. I'll leave this sorry thread alone, and let you mud-wrestle by yourself....
  3. Lest you stay up nights worrying, I want to reassure you that it never once occurred to me that your malignant maunderings are anything but your "honest thoughts and opinions." :)
  4. Not bad--in one post, you (i) mercilessly bashed some poor guy you dislike (is it really so hard not to do that?), (ii) injected politics into where it doesn't belong (is it really that hard not to do that?), and (iii) even managed to tell a story relevant to the group.
  5. It's worth about $.03 as a hunk of copper, and about $.01 as a coin of legal tender. Whether you want to keep it is up to you. Mark
  6. I thought perhaps that a bit of levity in this subforum might be in order. Unquestionably, fakes are a huge scourge on this hobby, especially since China allows it. But sometimes, the counterfeiters are too smart by half.
  7. Thanks! I was lucky; it was buried in the website, so the retailer may well not have known they had it (the front page showed "out of stock," but another route in showed it there), and had not updated the price (I told them about the glitch, but they happily sold me the coin, and updated the prices of the other coins that had been hidden). I've learned that you win some, and you lose some; I can celebrate the wins!
  8. That's a cool story! What a great way to acquire such a fabulous coin (and some other pretty neat ones)! Mark
  9. It's a beautiful coin! I'm a professional, but not in a profession having anything to do with numismatics. My amateur guess: Comparing it to my graded Morgans, it most closely resembles (both sides) an AU55 that I have. But I cannot tell whether the apparent softness in the lower part of the hair is in the strike (meaning it's uncirculated), or from a tiny bit of wear. Mark
  10. I would add, in support of what you've been told, that I'll be selling my extras sooner rather than later, because I feel that the price will continue to drop for a while. It might spike up again if they are annoying enough to continue the "series" next year, but my sense is that (i) prices have dropped significantly since we actually got the coins, and (ii) MS 69 is not a "special" grade, worthy of paying twice the release price. If you care about "top pop," perhaps an MS 70 set would be worth that, but not (IMO, of course) an MS 69 set. Mark
  11. You're right. Sorry for rising to the bait.
  12. Uh huh; you need to get your "information" from somewhere other than Breitbart. And about that coup attempt....
  13. Who knew? Some of us don't like a president who lies, cheats, steals, divides, philanders, mocks, throws out racist dog-whistles, alienates our allies and cozies up to our enemies, and attempts a violent coup against our democracy. Some do. Go figure.