Revenant

On 5/26/2021 at 2:21 PM, coinsandmedals said:

I would greatly appreciate any feedback about how this was presented. I wanted to do something different, but in hindsight, this might have been too difficult to read. Any thoughts?

The font is a bit small for reading on a phone. I'd probably do better on a laptop.

With regard to presentation, I'm not a huge fan of the text wrapping tight with the coin images - especially with the coin in the middle. When you have a more square image it would be better to have that shifted up or down to be next to one paragraph and not having 2 paragraphs that are kind of L-shaped.

Just my 2 cents.

6 hours ago, Just Bob said:

Can you get that in writing?

Probably not but it's just in regards to a note ending tonight that'll probably go for like $30. 🤣

1 hour ago, coinsandmedals said:

Congratulations all around! It seems like you've checked several things off your list in such a short period of time. I look forward to seeing the pictures once you get them done. 

Feels like a lot of mostly small things that are adding up in big ways (but also some big ones like the 20L and 20M). I'm excited to see how these submissions will build up my Zimbabwean note collection and help it achieve some big milestones. 

The house of course is major. My wife jokes and laughs about how little I talk about it here but I don't want to risk giving up the new address.

25 minutes ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

 Yep, but very entertaining.

Did they say it was ungradable or did they assign a grade to the coin before conservation. On some of mine they've assigned a grade prior to conservation and it's interesting to see what the difference is.

Lots of good news today, congratulations on the house and everything else. Life is good!

They did not assign a grade that I saw. So I'm worried that it might have bagged or gotten detailed. I was worried about a 67 after conservation at that point. 

Yup. And the wife is so happy she's telling me I can bid on things when I'm currently out of spending money/coin&note budget. 🤣

Glad to see you achieve that goal. Something like that takes patience.

On 5/23/2021 at 12:34 PM, Legionary1 said:

Right now, my objective is increasing the quality of the specimens I have and reclaiming my throne from a certain usurper.....

I'll be cheering for the usurper! 

Good job, Both of you. 

Well, two sets can have the same ranking if they have the same point total, number of images, number of comments and number of NGC coins. This usually happens with sets of MS70/PF70 NCLT and moderns.

Us sets / categories get a "Best in Category" and an "NGC Best in Category" each year. Maybe each of you won one of these in 2020?

It's also possible that you're seeing yourself as #1 when only NGC coins are considered and him as #1 when all coins are considered (including PCGS). Or vice versa.

This is all me guessing.

8 hours ago, Ultra Cameo Collection said:

They really should stop forcing people to go to the new registry. 

Tons of people don't even have pictures on their sets. Was it optimized for tablets or something?  Both options should be kept. NGC can afford it.

I suspect it has more to do with branding, marketing and outreach than cost. 

The New system is modern and pretty and it looks and works the way people (and younger people) are going to expect it to look. The old registry is about 20 years old... and it looks like it. It looks like the internet equivalent of an antique. That is not what NGC wants because it is going to look less attractive to people and it makes it look like they aren't investing to keep up with the times.

I'm sure the new ANA registry will be modeled on the new registry and they didn't sell the ANA on. "Hey, let's plug you into this 20 year old system." 

I like the old system. I'll miss it. They can't afford to not update with time. 

I think this has come up before I and don't think they have those options / functions in the new registry. I also don't think they have the collection manager in the new registry.

33 minutes ago, Ali E. said:

Hello, Rick.

Thank you for your long-term support of the NGC Registry. We appreciate it. Please follow these directions, if necessary, for your 2020 Rosies:

 

I think what he was actually referring to was NGC adding new slots every year for new coins in ongoing series - which sometimes for some series is very early in the year and sometimes a series goes years without an update. But I think the answer to his question is you folks just have a bunch of categories to deal with now and you have us constantly poking you for new ones and extra changes. 🤣 

2 hours ago, UrbanDecay4 said:

 

I guess, going by your posts you guys have never heard of Daniel Carr... This IS in fact a fantasy piece. Dan has his own private coin mint and mints his own coins to sell to the public. He almost always mints fantasy pieces and medallions and tokens. He's good at what he does. Here's a bit more info.

http://moonlightmint.com/

Most people here are aware of him, but I don't actively follow everything he makes.

1 hour ago, dleonard-3 said:

So, is that a real Peace Dollar that has been counter stamped with a 2021 and the roman numerals?  Or is it considered a "fantasy piece"?

It would be 1921, not 2021, because of the C - so the numbers don't match??? Odd. I'm hoping it's a fantasy piece and a genuine coin - even a dirt common one - wasn't ruined for this.

39 minutes ago, TheFalseIllusion13 said:

I kinda figured the same thing but what throws me off is how smooth it is. It’s extremely smooth, no roughness whatsoever. And i would think, if that was the case, it would have some type of roughness to it.there is the back side

It really just depends on what they used/ the grit. I've filed rough-cast brass into something with very smooth surfaces and sharp, fine edges. You basically just need to finish the job with a file with a fine grit, or sand paper, or a buffing wheel - or better yet, finish with a polish like Brasso.

56 minutes ago, Six Mile Rick said:

Get sucked into the U.S. mints collecting therapy and purchase something that will be forever worthless???

Worthless is a bit strong. They are silver, but, past some initial hype and interest, I doubt they'll give anyone a profit.

On 5/1/2021 at 4:56 PM, Eagles Nest said:

 I picked one up at an estate sale for $5.00 that they said didn't work. I took the lid off when I got home and there were 2 SBA dollars jamming it up so actually got it for $3.00. I have been using it ever since and it works great.

Sounds like you made out like a bandit and like dollar coins are a nono for that.

1 hour ago, deposito said:

There's no way my wife is finding out what the coins are worth till I'm dead.  Or that will happen right after she finds out. 

 

The mistake I make is being lazy and letting her handle the insurance, which leads to questions. Lol

22 hours ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

My family has always been a big PM family anyway, one Christmas I bought a 5lb copper ingot for a swap gift and that thing changed hands at least 6 times and rightful ownership was fought over everyday for many weeks (still is). Each year my dad brings it out and struts around, much to several individuals chagrin.  

See, now I just randomly want a 5 lb copper bar. It would go well with my 1 kilo silver bar. 🤣 A lot cheaper though.

6 hours ago, Zebo said:

How's the new house BTW?

Inspection went well very well. The house is in great shape. We just waived the last 3 days of our option period to help the sellers.

At this point, barring an act of God, we plan to move forward with the purchase, but we can't close until around the end of May and, with the leaseback, we may not be in the house until July or August. We could be in in June, if they can get their purchase closed on, which is why we agreed to end the option early to help them, but I'm not going to hold my breath in this market. So It's going good, it's just going to be hard to put up with 2 months of constant dreaming about a house we're not in yet.  

3 hours ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

A coins age is probably #2 on the WOW factor list (after price) in my experience. Anything made in the 20th Century seems to amaze most yn. 

Sadly there is no one left, born in the 20th century, who is not old enough to drink. That's painful.

Anyway... What usually got me as a babe was age and size, first size and then age. I loved looking at a few old silver dollars as a kid. Which may be why silver dollars and 1 oz silver NCLT was such a grab for me early on. I'll probably never have a major collection of Morgans and Peace Dollars - especially by registry standards - but I will always keep some. But I'm also learning as I go along that I'm more of a type collector than someone that focuses on a series.

I don't know that value was something that explicitly factored into my thinking but I loved the idea or REAL silver.

1 hour ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

Well that stinks, I better go delete that one about the hair while I still can. Jk

You can delete / hide I think. Just not make targeted edits.

16 minutes ago, Coinbuf said:

Best of luck, surprised that the market there is that easy given the number of people that have been moving there.  Here is way worse as we have had a massive influx of people moving out of CA and other states run by a certain political party.  House prices here are skyrocketing with no end in sight, to "win" a house here you had better be prepared to bid way over ask and have a ton of cash on hand too.

Yeah. We're getting it for only about $2,000 over ask, but with $5,000 in closing costs, almost unheard of in this market, at a cost of about $120/sq ft. All super reasonable for a newer house that has never flooded with a great new elementary school. But it's all because of the negotiating power that leaseback condition gives us.

Even kinda bad houses here are going under contract in just a day or two, even at prices I'd normally call very steep. We got lucky on this one.

1 hour ago, Six Mile Rick said:

Chill out.  It takes a while these days to actually close on a house with a bank. My daughter and her fiancee had to change banks to meet qualification protocol after losing 3 different contractors for upgrades the bank wanted. Sit back and get ready for a rough ride!!  

We have 3 or 4 pre-approvals from shopping around for rates and the house is only 7 years old so I don't expect it to need much work. This should be pretty easy. Should be. We'll see.

Unfortunately a rim dent is a rim dent, no matter where or when it occurred and NGC has only your word for that. But PMD is still PMD, with "mint" in this case meaning striking, not the building.

27 minutes ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

And the wait begins....

It is a little odd how they grouped those coins by denomination instead of series/issue, there probably isn't enough coins for NGC to justify making any additional sets either.

Or is there? 

It's set up as a type set and I like it that way. I can't imagine there's interest in much more than that. I personally don't have interest in date sets or anything like that. Just representative pieces.