Soulreader420

On December 3, 1979, I attended The Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati Ohio. While waiting outside on the pavilion of the coliseum prior to the start of the concert at 8:05pm, I was caught up in a crowd stampede or push coming from behind me that carried me forward for about 10-15 feet before I realized what was happening, and by then, I was already falling or being pushed down, with my legs stuck behind me, and my arms pinned at my sides by the tightly packed crowd around me. The natural reaction everyone has to put their arms out if front of themself when falling down to protect their head/face from hitting the ground was impossible for me to do. In truth, I just closed my eyes to accept my fate, because there wasn't anything I could do to prevent whatever was about to happen. Only recently did I remember thinking to myself "Well, I guess this is how I will die!" (it's funny how the brain will temporarily "erase" some important details in a traumatic situation). With my eyes still closed and fully expecting to feel the pain of being "trampled under-foot" in the next moments of my life, now instead it felt like a different force was coming at me from the opposite direction (towards me), and it felt like the force was helping to push me back up. As I opened my eyes and they focused to confirm this, I silently begged this new "force" to continue, because my body was almost upright and able to stand on my feet again. Thankfully it did, and my first thought was being so thankful just for being alive and uninjured. The stampede was over and had stopped as quickly as it had started. My next thought, however, was pure rage whoever was behind, because that insufficiently_thoughtful_person almost killed me. As I turned to yell at whoever this fool was, I noticed everyone around me had the strangest, weirdest look on their faces and in their eyes, kind of like "WTF just happened?". I even saw a bit of remorse in the dude's eye who was behind me. Without saying a word, i just turned back around, thankful to be alive and continued waiting to finally get inside the coliseum, find a seat and watch The Who perform. As traumatic as all of this was, I know I was extremely lucky to have survived that stampede uninjured and also get to watch The Who give a fantastic concert that cold winter Monday evening of December 3, 1979. Or perhaps I should say I was luckier than the 26 rockers that had tickets to see The Who concert that night, but missed it due to being taken instead to a local hospital due to their severe trauma injuries they received in the same stampede and/or crowd push that I was involved in. And finally, I was definitely luckier than the 11 rockers who had tickets to see The Who that night, but tragically and most sad, they perished in the same stampede/crowd push that I survived, so they not only missed a fantastic concert, but also the rest of their young adult lives, may all 11 souls R.I.P., they are not forgotten. So, over 40 years after The Who concert that I somehow survived and saw, all of the coins minted by Great Britain's Royal Mint, specifically the 4th entry from 2021 in its ongoing Music Legend series that honors The Who have a deeply sentimental and special meaning to me. In some ways, perhaps I'm trying to assemble a noteworthy set of The Who coins for the 11 souls not here today to purchase, love and compete for "best of" honors themselves (if a registry set is established specifically for the Music Legends coin series that honors The Who). In truth, I already own The Who's ungraded coin versions (still in their original government packaging) for both Cupro-Nickel 5-pound denomination varieties (regular and colorized), the 1/2 oz .999 silver proof coin (1 pound), the 1 oz .999 silver uncirculated bullion coin (2 pounds), the 1 oz .999 silver colorized proof coin (2 pounds), the 2 oz .999 silver coin (5 pounds) and the 5 oz .999 silver coin (10 pounds), as well as NGC graded slabs for all but one of the coins, and that are either a "top population" coin, or the "2nd highest grade" given by NGC (see below for NGC certification #'s). The one/only exception is the 5 oz .999 silver coin, for which I currently on have the original, ungraded coin in it OGP (no NGC graded slab, yet). In closing, I'd like to apologize for the length of my request. I simply felt that my passion for collecting these 2021 coins that honor The Who should be known, and most specifically, exactly why (as a tribute to the 11 souls that needlessly died while on the cold pavilion of Riverfront coliseum in Cincinnati Ohio on Monday evening, December 3, 1979, as they waited to get inside to watch The Who rock it out like only they can). Here's the NGC graded slabs I currently have in my possession (most were recently purchased on eBay): Music Legends 2021 G. Britain 5 pounds The Who First Releases MS 69 DPL NGC certification # 6262683-061 Music Legends 2021 G. Britain 5 pounds The Who Colorized- First Releases MS 69 DPL NGC certification # 2863806-013 Music Legends 2021 G. Britain S 1 pound The Who PF 69 Ultra Cameo NGC certification # 2867803-006 Music Legends 2021 G. Britain S 2 pounds The Who First Releases MS 69 NGC certification # 6263390-030 Music Legends 2021 G. Britain S 2 pounds The Who Colorized-First Releases PF 69 Ultra Cameo NGC certification # 6185909--008 Music Legends 2021 2oz G. Britain S 5 pounds The Who First Releases PF 69 Ultra Cameo NGC certification # 2866078-009 Thank you in advance for your consideration and efforts in creating a competitive registry set specifically for "The Who" coins minted in 2021 by Great Britain's Royal Mint in their ongoing Music Legend series.

I've always felt that an "attention to detail" is the first and/or at least one of the most important cornerstones of the coin collecting hobby, but ironically, it seems like most of the coin dealers that I've talked to in my decades long enjoyment of numismatics seem to be a lot more forgiving than I am whenever a major grading service makes some type of error on the description label of a slabbed coin that they've been paid handsomely by the coin's owner to specifically authenticate and grade. Case in point, I currently own a 2000 D Sacagawea $1 graded as MS-67 PL by NGC, but the label incorrectly identifies the coin as P mint. I bought this coin on eBay, so I was not the owner that originally paid NGC for the coin's authentication and grade certification. The issue I have is that now, well over 2 decades after the coin was minted, how or will NGC be able to determine or distinguish if the D mint golden dollar was a business strike coin (currently priced at $40) or is this 2000-D golden dollar from the Millennium set with a limited mintage of 50,000 (currently priced at $90). Since I also own examples of NGC graded MS 67 PL Sacagawea $1's that are the 2000-D business strike coin and the 2000-D coin from the Millennium set, I've tried to compare all 3 coins side by side (under high magnification) to determine what the 2000-D coin (mis-labelled as a P mint) actually is, but without success. Granted, I'm not professional coin grader, but I do have an eye for detail that caught the error NGC made, so there is that to consider. In truth, I called NGC a couple of years ago about this coin. The NGC rep verified the certification # on the slab and agreed (from their picture of the coin saved in their system) that it incorrectly stated it was a P mint instead of a D mint. Since I was not the original coin owner that had submitted the coin to NGC for grading, she asked me to mail the coin (insured) back to NGC so they could fix the error (for free) on the slab's label. Oh, really? You mean that I have to pay for shipping and insurance of this coin in order to fix NGC's error that they made decades ago? That's just wrong, plain and simple. I asked her how or if NGC would even try to determine if the 2000-D coin was the business strike coin (automatically) or was the 2000-D coin from the limited-edition Millennium set. She asked me hold while she checked, and after a minute or so, my call was either disconnected accidentally or intentionally. Needless to say, I didn't call back, nor have I ever mailed this coin back to NGC to fix the label (for free). Instead, I started a collection of NGC mis-labelled coins, and to date, now have 3 coins that NGC has mis-labelled: the 2000-D Sacagawea $1 incorrectly labelled as a P-mint, and (2) 2019-D Delaware "Classifying the Stars" Innovation dollars incorrectly labeled as 2018-D, G. Washington Signed 1st Patent. I guess the bottom line on all of this is that it is what it is, until it's not. Sure, I guess we as coin collectors can forgive the grading services for their coin label errors that they occasionally make, especially if based solely on the sheer volume of coins they certify daily. But should we, especially when attention to detail is vital when collecting coins? I'm just throwing this out there as food for thought to see how others feel about it. Nobody's reply is right or wrong due to relevance and personal opinions.

On December 3, 1979, I attended The Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati Ohio. While waiting outside on the pavilion of the coliseum prior to the start of the concert at 8:05pm, I was caught up in a crowd stampede or push coming from behind me that carried me forward for about 10-15 feet before I realized what was happening, and by then, I was already falling or being pushed down, with my legs stuck behind me, and my arms pinned at my sides by the tightly packed crowd around me. The natural reaction everyone has to put their arms out if front of themself when falling down to protect their head/face from hitting the ground was impossible for me to do. In truth, I just closed my eyes to accept my fate, because there wasn't anything I could do to prevent whatever was about to happen. Only recently did I remember thinking to myself "Well, I guess this is how I will die!" (it's funny how the brain will temporarily "erase" some important details in a traumatic situation). With my eyes still closed and fully expecting to feel the pain of being "trampled under-foot" in the next moments of my life, now instead it felt like a different force was coming at me from the opposite direction (towards me), and it felt like the force was helping to push me back up. As I opened my eyes and they focused to confirm this, I silently begged this new "force" to continue, because my body was almost upright and able to stand on my feet again. Thankfully it did, and my first thought was being so thankful just for being alive and uninjured. The stampede was over and had stopped as quickly as it had started. My next thought, however, was pure rage whoever was behind, because that insufficiently_thoughtful_person almost killed me. As I turned to yell at whoever this fool was, I noticed everyone around me had the strangest, weirdest look on their faces and in their eyes, kind of like "WTF just happened?". I even saw a bit of remorse in the dude's eye who was behind me. Without saying a word, i just turned back around, thankful to be alive and continued waiting to finally get inside the coliseum, find a seat and watch The Who perform. As traumatic as all of this was, I know I was extremely lucky to have survived that stampede uninjured and also get to watch The Who give a fantastic concert that cold winter Monday evening of December 3, 1979. Or perhaps I should say I was luckier than the 26 rockers that had tickets to see The Who concert that night, but missed it due to being taken instead to a local hospital due to their severe trauma injuries they received in the same stampede and/or crowd push that I was involved in. And finally, I was definitely luckier than the 11 rockers who had tickets to see The Who that night, but tragically and most sad, they perished in the same stampede/crowd push that I survived, so they not only missed a fantastic concert, but also the rest of their young adult lives, may all 11 souls R.I.P., they are not forgotten. So, over 40 years after The Who concert that I somehow survived and saw, all of the coins minted by Great Britain's Royal Mint, specifically the 4th entry from 2021 in its ongoing Music Legend series that honors The Who have a deeply sentimental and special meaning to me. In some ways, perhaps I'm trying to assemble a noteworthy set of The Who coins for the 11 souls not here today to purchase, love and compete for "best of" honors themselves (if a registry set is established specifically for the Music Legends coin series that honors The Who). In truth, I already own The Who's ungraded coin versions (still in their original government packaging) for both Cupro-Nickel 5-pound denomination varieties (regular and colorized), the 1/2 oz .999 silver proof coin (1 pound), the 1 oz .999 silver uncirculated bullion coin (2 pounds), the 1 oz .999 silver colorized proof coin (2 pounds), the 2 oz .999 silver coin (5 pounds) and the 5 oz .999 silver coin (10 pounds), as well as NGC graded slabs for all but one of the coins, and that are either a "top population" coin, or the "2nd highest grade" given by NGC., The one/only exception is the 5 oz .999 silver coin, for which I currently on have the original, ungraded coin in it OGP (no NGC graded slab, yet). In closing, I'd like to apologize for the length of my request. I simply felt that my passion for collecting these 2021 coins that honor The Who should be known, and most specifically, exactly why (as a tribute to the 11 souls that needlessly died while on the cold pavilion of Riverfront coliseum in Cincinnati Ohio on Monday evening, December 3, 1979, as they waited to get inside to watch The Who rock it out like only they can).Thank you in advance for your consideration and efforts in creating a competitive registry set specifically for "The Who" coins minted in 2021 by Great Britain's Royal Mint in their ongoing Music Legend series.