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Yeah... Which is why a few years ago someone wanted to implement a rule whereby a description wouldn't count unless it was 200+ characters or something similar. It didn't get implemented because it wouldn't really improve things. You'd just get comments that are word soup or lazy repetitive boiler plate or strings of a's or similar garbage. As it is you still get the " ' " ones but I accept that for the extent to which it does get us "real" comments by making incentives - even though the tie breaks usually occur in modern sets of PF70s, where making "interesting" or original comments tends to be harder IMO.

Very true, and very good point! But I give the judges here more credit than I'd give computer algorithms for having taste. 😆

It might also be helpful to know that the system places no judgements of value on the quality or length of a comment or description. You could make a comment / description that says, "This coin purteh! Hur dee hurr hurr." And the system will weight it equally to someone that has written a 500-word love note to the coin. Which is nice given that what makes a "good" description is highly subjective.

Well, what he's saying will happen is a little like saying the England and France are going to agree to merge. Yeah. I suppose, in principle, it's possible, but... "Good luck." - Ain't happening.

I think you either need to acknowledge the prior opinion when selling or re-submit around some. It would not sit well with me to let someone hand over $1,000+ for a coin that I know a professional called a fake. It is possible that the company that called it counterfeit just knew the coins were commonly faked and just didn't want the liability. I say this having no idea who was who and who looked at it. I just think its human nature to some degree to hedge if you think there's room for doubt.

Guys - While I respect the fact that there are a lot of strong feelings on this, I'm hoping that this argument - which has completely highjacked this thread - can either end, move to pms, or move to the water cooler - even then, some of this is getting dangerously close to being political. This thread was about the ANA registry and NGC has given us their answer - it was delayed but they're still very much on it. Stay safe. Stay healthy.

He completely takes for granted things that never existed when I was a kid One of the funnier examples: He's so used to Netflix and Hulu and streaming services that live TV confuses the out of him. He doesn't understand the idea of it being on when it's on and there being a TV "schedule" and they what the channel is playing is just what's on. We're cable cutters and have pretty much only had Netflix and Hulu all his life and haven't had a digital antenna, so the concept of live TV is just completely foreign to him.

I mean, it has had some major cute moments. When he was younger he used to ask Alexa what time it was (still can't read a clock) and he couldn't say the name right so he would be trying to activate it by saying, "Lexa! Time is it!?!?" There really is some cuteness but I was not thrilled when I got a 1 month Amazon Music membership.

It is so unsecure, IMO, my wife can say "Alexa," and then I can give the order - in a completely different voice - and it will take the command. It makes no distinction between an order from me and an order from my 4 year old. If there is a way to make it do this, I'm not aware of it. About a year ago there was a story about a small child shouting "Batman" a bunch of times and Alexa ordered and $80, SquareEnix collectable batman figure on the parent's accounts. It's a really convenient thing at times but if he gets any better at using it I'm going to just have to unplug the damn thing.

Off-topic but... Some days it begins to feel like a game of "What has my 4 year old managed to get me charged for this time?" A couple of months ago he managed to get us signed up to Amazon Music for a month. Last month he managed to upgrade my Netflix account to "Premium" - so now we can have 3 screens going at once instead of 2 - and it costs me $3 more a month. I was just looking at one of the credit card bills, seeing a 5 dollar charge and thinking, "Oh no... What did he tell Alexa this time?" - Turns out it wasn't that it was just a tip for the grocery delivery driver. Why can't these kids do something useful? Like get into my eBay watch list on my Phone's App and buy somethings while giving me deniability??? I could at least enjoy that!

You can't really call it a debacle when the mint got pretty much exactly what you'd expect when capping a mintage that low for a coin like that in a heavily collected series. At the same time, the shenanigans with low mintage artificial rarities has made me lose a lot of the interest in that series that the milk spotting issue hadn't already killed.

NGC's decision to have the guarantee expire after 10 years puts copper collector's in an awkward spot though - if these coins in my set in the old fatties from 1993 were copper then they wouldn't have been eligible for the grade guarantee for the last 17 years - nearly 2/3rds the time they've been in the holder.

While I haven't experienced this personally, I found out from a former associate that I project I spent months on, which continued for months after I left, was similarly shutdown without notice and abruptly "de-staffed" to put it in the politest terms. It made me very happy that I made the decision I did and left for greener pastures. But I can't say it was surprising. The entire time we were on it we knew it could happen pretty much any time - just in the nature of the beast in that situation. While it didn't cost me a job, I've had clients come back and just put projects on indefinite hold. You know when this happens that the project is dead though. Fortunately though it wasn't the only thing I was getting paid for at that moment.

Yeah, he was talking about the "Collector's Journal" area - which he's been using to create some amusing bits of slightly outlandish fiction.

With the current state of things, it seems like something released in January should be eligible for 3 labels at least, including the normal label, the ER label, and this new EP label. Then you get into the "First strucks," the signature labels, the other different designs and such that you can get. It's reaching a point where it feels almost impossible to get a set that has everything matching unless you either submit them yourself all at the same time or you send in a set that you've built for a re-holder (expensive). It's a real shame IMO.

I can't imagine the bank manager would be too thrilled about employees spending their work time doing this and doing it in a place where customers could see them, so I doubt you directly observed this happening. I would also be surprised if this approach was successful given that, to my understanding, the W quarters were being dropped into bulk bags - not into mint rolls. So, again, from what I've understood, you aren't going to get a W from a roll unless it's already circulated a bit and gotten put into a roll subsequently.

Or that they didn't charge you for them - and I've seen this happen before.

Thanks. Yeah. I feel your pain on the loss of the old holders (even though I don't prefer them to the new ones) but I do think the presentation of the set as a whole would be better if they all matched. And I really don't think I'm likely to find an 1888 in an old fatty to harmonize the set around the fatties.

Thanks! I just can't help but think that would be one dang nice looking set if the slabs matched. It really is hard for me to believe some days that I bought that PCGS graded MS67 11 years ago in mid-2009.

It was gong on just as I was getting back into coin collecting and buying / investing in silver in 2006 and 2007 as a young adult. Reading up on it and reading about the German event in the 1920s really captured my imagination and that period is what ultimately lead me here - And now I have my massive, 95-note signature set, which is my great tribute to the greatest hyperinflation of my lifetime so far. But that coincidence of timing is what's made this collection so near and dear to me that I've put such time and effort into this.

Very very bad fakes. Also, as those coins you posted are not in PCGS holders... where did you get those numbers from that you were trying to enter in? There's no slab, so no label, so no cert#.

A lot of that used to be Ben's. Children's toys are one of the few things that don't get updated every year these days and there's also a healthy used market for it all. I prefer the look of the edge view holders. I have a set that is mostly old fatties but the 1888 - the key date - is in a new style holder and I don't feel like my odds of finding one in an old fatty are good - NGC has only graded about 20-25 of them total.

Thanks. It's the Willem III compliment to your Wilhelmina set.

I've pretty much made up my mind that, before the year is out, I want to get my 10G set reholdered in scratch-resistant holders to harmonize the look of the set. I'm considering having them review the ones in old fatty holders to see if they might be able to pick up a point - this would be especially nice with the MS64 1887. I'm not sure how the best way to do this would be because, even if the grade doesn't change, I'd still want it cracked out and reholdered - There's just little point to me if the whole set doesn't come back in the same type of holder. I'd on the fence about using this / taking the opportunity to roll the dice on reholdering the PCGS 1875 - even having bought the newer NGC graded 1875 I don't think this issue / question will ever fully get out of my head. The thought of putting 8 coins that I've spent nearly $3,000 and 12 years gathering together in a box and handing it to USPS has me pretty nervous. In the same box I'll probably also be sending some Civil War tokens and one other small gold coin for grading. I'm absolutely going to send them via registered mail when I do this. That said though, I think I'd have to take the box to the Post Office and ship it in person to do that, and that's something I really don't want to do right now with the CoVID cases so high in Texas right now. I'm sure that some would say I'm being paranoid but I'm still just not going to expose myself more than I have to right now. The cruse my wife and I had planned on going on in October is officially canceled and we're working on making other plans to have a little get-away where we can also be alone in the hillcountry and limit our exposure to other people. With the no-sail orders already extending to 9/30 and the spike in cases it just seemed like the best thing to do. I don't know that I've said much on this front in quite some time but Sam continues to flourish and impress his PT and OT. When we started to self-isolate in March he was just starting to roll over and sit up on his own. He finally got to where he could stay in quad (on all fours) good in April, started crawling and pulling up to standing in May and was cruising (taking steps while holding something for balance) by late June. He's now standing without holding something for 3-4 seconds with increasing confidence and I expect he'll be starting to walk independently in the near future. He's showing some cognitive and speech delays but we'll continue to work on that.

Thanks. Maybe Ali's comment assumes people logging out so it doesn't show that they're viewing their own set then.