Revenant

I think you just have to accept that it isn't universal and will always have exceptions.

7 hours ago, Ali E. said:

You obscured this set briefly in November, which automatically disqualified it from awards. Since you notified us immediately that this was an error on your part, we are making an exception. 

Were it me, Blake, I'd be very patient and very grateful and the words, "Thank you so much," would need to be used more than once.

16 minutes ago, BlakeEik said:

Any movement here?  The longer the wait, I'm afraid NGC is going to be too reluctant to remove the best-in-category awards from the other sets that should have never won in the first place.

If you're right I'm sure they'll fix it. This isn't the first time this has happened. It probably won't the the last. They fix it - but they're going to do their due diligence and make sure it is actually a mistake and fix the bug - exactly what you'd want, no?

There's a forum right above this one in the forums list called "Coin Marketplace." That's for buying and selling.

Just now, Tridmn said:

As of right now, all my newer modern coins are in a sandwich bag that I keep stuffed so nothing happens to them. Probably 98 to present 

Stuffed with what? In or out of the bag? Depending, you may learn some fun things about toning.

2 minutes ago, Tridmn said:

I've been through hundreds of penny rolls. You ought to check the 64 I posted. Heck I would send this penny to you if it helped. It's just a nice penny. Especially roll hunting.

Very kind of you to offer but I did this myself with pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters about 12 years ago. I keep telling myself I need to go back and update for 2008 to 2020 but just haven't convinced myself yet.

You can find some nice shiny ones from decades ago from searching rolls, but when I find a 50 year old cent that looks bright and red I begin to wonder of someone spent grandpa's (or grandma's) coins.

Yeah. Looks like it.

Thinking of starting a whitman folder or a Dansco Album? They're fun projects - filling them from roll searching.

On 1/13/2020 at 3:34 PM, physics-fan3.14 said:

Whenever I look at this my brain just keeps thinking "the PMG sign is bigger!"

Is it actually bigger is it all angle / perspective? I think the PMG sign actually is wider, no?

4 hours ago, RWB said:

 (No, they did not seal bags with "Duck Tape," or cushion with "Goose Feathers" or "Horse Feathers.")

What a bunch of kill-joys those bums must have been.

3 hours ago, Ali E. said:

Howdy, Revenant.

It looks like they will be adding the functionality for you to choose the mailing option soon. Sorry for any confusion. Thanks and congrats! 

Yeah. That sounds about right - I remember last year it was around the first week of February. No problem!

Do you normally say Howdy or is that just because I'm a Texan and a Texas Aggie?

Thanks!

30 minutes ago, Ali E. said:

Thank you for your support of NGC over the years! Yes, we will be mailing them. Usually, they begin mailing the certificates in April.

Do we need to specifically request that they be mailed this year using the webform or is it going to be automatic this year?

We all know this is a problem and that it happens. The problem is you have to prove that the set no longer exists. If you can do that to NGC's satisfaction they may be able to take the set down / remove it from the registry but I don't think NGC proactively looks for these situations or revalidates sets - I've been a member here for about 12 years and I've never had to re-establish that I own a coin unless someone tried to add that coin to one of their sets and generated a conflict.

Such things (enforcement efforts) require time and effort and therefore cost money, and, like most enforcement efforts, you're going to spend 90-95% of your time "checking-up" on honest people just to catch a bad actor every once in a while. So I don't think it would provide a very good return on investment for NGC - just my 2 cents there. There's also the potential for this to make people shy away from the registry and hurt participation. the high value of coin collections tends to make us all a little more cagey about what all we have an where. If people start to feel like "big brother" is being too nosey about their collections and what they own it could have a chilling effect and make people decide the registry isn't worth it. You also risk offending people if they think you're calling them liars.

I can think of one person who two years ago claimed that they were going to rage quit the registry and NGC and sell all their NGC coins. Their sets are still in place last I checked even though the user hasn't been active / posted in about 2 years. Did he lie about selling all his stuff and rage quitting or was he just too lazy to do the right thing and remove all the sets from his registry? Knowing him, I can tell you which I think is more likely, but I can't prove it either way.

Is the set you're worried about winning / at the top of a category? If not, I don't think I'd care enough to raise cane over it - it's not hurting anyone really.

Thought I'd jump back in with:

Especially if you're one of the winners of the major awards and a plaque will be coming to you in the mail (for the certificates you have to ask for them to be mailed if you want them), and especially if you have been a member for a number of years, check your mailing address information on your account and make sure it's still current / up-to-date.

I can't speak for the certificates personally but as far as the plaques go, my experience says we normally get them between Late March and Late April.

I'm a member of the Executive Committee for a local professional organization that gives out several plaques every year for various awards and events. Whenever we pick a winner and order the plaque we have to give the company that makes the plaque 5 weeks to fill the order. That's one of the reasons why we always have the nominations cut-off in Early May for an award we give in early October. So the Late March to Late April time frame I usually see from NGC is pretty on-the-ball for something like that.

Edit to add: Do yourself a favor and check the mailing address information on your account NOW to make sure it's up to date. If you're like me, I've had something like 4 or 5 mailing addresses in the ~12 years I've been a member here - College, grad school and starting careers and families will force you to move a bit.

9 minutes ago, worldcoinguy said:

 

In retrospect, I think my comment seems a bit snarky and that was not the intent.  As an eclectic world collector, my comment was directed more on the peripheral custom sets judged by more abstract rationale than strict point-driven analytics.              

Odd though it may seem though NGC seems to favor "finished" / "completed" sets. I don't even mean just that 80+% of the slots are filled even. I mean I've chatted with several people over the years that commented on their set winning a major award 2-3 years after the "finished" it, weren't actively building it anymore and weren't updating it. NGC seems to like capturing sets in a "mature" state.

Of course, I could be completely wrong about this, but it seems to hold up.

47 minutes ago, bsshog40 said:

What, no participation awards? Lol Congrats to all the winners. 

My "claim to fame" is winning awards for writing in a competition that's focused on coin collecting.

9 minutes ago, Coinbuf said:

 Btw congrats on your awards, maybe someday I'll attempt to give you some competition on that 1932 set.

Thanks! You probably wouldn't have to try all that hard with that 1932 D cent of yours. One of the things that has amazed me with that set is that it's held on through 12 years now without a single addition or upgrade. I keep joking with Choya that one of these days we might actually have to do something to bulk up that set.

30 minutes ago, Coinbuf said:

Congrats to all the winners, I won 5 best in category and have a total of 25 best in category awards since 2012. 

So when are you going to get around to getting pics up for the nickel and dime in that category-topping 1929 set?

My family has been engineers in the oil and gas industry for the last 3 generations, so we don't get involved in things that get honored on coinage very often, but it was my grandfather's old silver dollars that get me interested in coins as a kid.

15 minutes ago, OUTCAST said:

So if it's a true you are wanted pedophille.

Channeling Elon Musk this morning?

42 minutes ago, JKK said:

 

Don't feel badly. I'm not one of those few on coins. I too should just follow the blanket guidance.

How would one acquire that skill though? Cut your teeth on worthless old common dates so it's no big deal if you wreck it?

1964 seems like a good and logical cut-off for the US but not so much any world coinage. I had thought NGC put the cut-off between modern and classic at 1955 for the purposes of classification and awards. I can't remember where I saw that anymore though.

On 1/8/2020 at 9:38 PM, Bink2090 said:

thank you. wasn't sure if I should leave the gunk around the D so you could see it better.

Never clean coins. Is bad.