Revenant

Apparently on 10/8 and 10/11 all of my Mint State presidential dollars were removed from my set.

Every coin has been removed. It is not showing that I can re-add them.

Did I miss something? Are these moved to a different set now for some reason??

On 10/10/2021 at 9:48 AM, imperatorcoaticus97 said:

So, so far I’ve been using non latex non blah blah blah medical gloves to handle my coins. Should I switch to cotton? 

For coins I've always heard cotton recommended. They're soft and they don't have the powders and chemicals on them that latex gloves do. I also don't know if latex gloves use the same plasticizers that make pvc so bad for coins.

On 10/9/2021 at 3:41 PM, imperatorcoaticus97 said:

I’ll have to order a box of non pvc plastic holders when I can.

Keeping a supply of flips or 2x2s is probably always a good idea. White cotton gloves are nice too.

I had a coin come in recently where the 2x2 was in bad shape and I just immediately took it out to get a better look at it.

On 10/9/2021 at 6:27 PM, Mohawk said:

Indeed it is!! It sounds like you've found a good shop....if I were in Massachusetts, I'd be asking you if they had any ancients for sale.  We used to do stuff like that for kids at the shop I worked at as well....we'd give them any gold plated State Quarters that came in, along with Kennedy Halves, Sac Dollars and even low grade Indian Cents, Liberty Nickels and Buffalo Nickels.  It was amazing to see their eyes light up....you can't beat that experience.  The kids are honestly one of the things I miss the most about that job....they were great!

There's a store near my office that has a small display of ancients but all their stuff is graded so I don't think you'd be game. Lol

On 10/8/2021 at 9:45 PM, VKurtB said:

When was the last time in your life that a new version of software did NOT ruin everything you liked about it? I cannot remember the last time. 

The proprietary software my company uses to do most of our work gets usually 1-2 major updates a year with new features and such. It tends to get better over time and the new features are nice, but sometimes weird bugs pop up that we mostly resolve in beta. The unfortunate thing here is that we're all unofficial beta testers.

On 10/8/2021 at 8:34 PM, VKurtB said:

“upgrade”. 

On 10/8/2021 at 11:10 AM, comicdonna said:

I have been having the same problem.  It took me a while to see that I had to sign out on the home page before I could sign in.  Something is not right.  The CGC chat boards have been having serious 500 errors that have been going on for months.  Dena has posted there that a fix is coming soon.  Maybe one is coming here, too.

I have the same problems.

This place is probably in near constant Flux as they work on underlying stuff to improve the site and add new features. Sometimes you accidentally break things and that seems to be what may have happened here.

I'm sure they'll get to patched at some point.

It's annoying in the mean time but maybe something good is coming down the pipe.

On 10/7/2021 at 5:25 AM, Jason Abshier said:

Our country is doomed for the future the most debtful country ,if that is even a word to describe it , 

"Indebted" I think is the word you want here.

On 10/6/2021 at 12:31 PM, Jason Abshier said:

I read somewhere the $1 trillion dollar coin was supposed to be 10 feet in diameter and 2 feet thick ! Crazy . No way they would be able to make a coin that big with machinery and cost that would be involved to make it 

I think it was Canada that made some huge gold coin as a 1-off or 2-off design that was a literal museum piece from the start and they sold 1 more of them to a private party. Odd stuff...

On 10/6/2021 at 6:33 AM, Fenntucky Mike said:

The face value of the coin would be $1T, the coin would probably only be as big as it would need to in order to fit that many 0's on it.  Or the word "Trillion".

I think you'd just get "Trillion," That's the route Venezuela took with the 1 Million Bolivares notes. That's actually the approach most groups take, which is what makes the P-91 Zimbabwean note so unique - they were the only ones shameless enough to put 14 zeros behind a 1  to spell it all out!

Incidentally - a random fact I've become aware of in recent reading - apparently the 2003-dated $10 and $25 coins were not released in 2003. They were released in Aug 2008, after the 2nd redenomination, with / alongside the new 2007-dated 3rd dollar banknotes. So instead of being valued at 10 and 25 ZWD, they were valued at 10 and 25 ZWR, which was equal to 100 Trillion and 250 Trillion ZWD.

On 10/3/2021 at 8:59 PM, Coinbuf said:

I'd be laughing all the way to the bank, he can cry and whine all he wants.

If you ignore him you don't have to see it anyway. Just saying. Not encouraging mass-ignores. Just saying I think there are ways to "dull the pain."

I mean... Biden's administration is just talking about something that they talked about when Obama was president and Biden was the VP and the same nonsense was going on. They didn't do it then and they won't do it now because it is the nuclear option. It is crossing the Rubicon. If you do this you can't even pretend like Congress and the Legislative branch matter anymore and it just becomes 100% a clown show and they will NEVER do this because of how this could be used the second the shoe is on the other foot. Just  my 2 cents.

Well, I'm sure they'll look into it for you. Good luck with it. 

Mind saying a bit more? Types? Country? Years? We can't even use cert look up without grades.

How big is the new file? I had a problem with this recently and couldn't make it work until I realized the new file was 4.18 MB. I made it smaller and it worked.

On 10/2/2021 at 6:24 AM, Alex in PA. said:

Oh my gawd; another one!  

You corrected me first. 

On 10/1/2021 at 10:04 PM, Woods020 said:

Not true. Art is cleaned often without enhancement. It’s more about keeping it from damage over time. I’m staying out of the coin debate but museums have teams of people who clean and preserve pieces with no intention of improving. They simply want it to stay as is for as long as possible. 

The word conservation - as opposed to preservation - includes repair as well as simple preservation. 

On 9/24/2021 at 7:00 AM, Winesteven said:

I see NGC now placed the proper photo in the "Obverse" photo area. However, they put that same photo of my obverse slab in the "Reverse" photo area instead of the large photo of the reverse of this 1908 Indian. For the time being I deleted the incorrect photo in that "Reverse" photo area. I cannot add the correct large Reverse photo of the 1908 Indian, as whenever I try, the slab obverse photo comes back. Hopefully NGC can do for this reverse photo area what they successfully did for the Obverse photo area (in getting my desired photo for that area in place).

Thanks, greatly appreciated.

Steve

I was having a problem similar to this with a new photo not replacing and old one and I think it was because my high resolution photo was over 4 MB. I reduced the image resolution and file size and it took.

On 9/25/2021 at 8:52 AM, Alex in PA. said:

I second that.  If not - it's a 'World' record.

Oh you're wrong for that.  Lol

It's always funny when you see someone get confused about seeing that symbol on some pre-20th century piece of Eastern art and people think it's a "Nazi [X]," and it's  like, "No. That sculpture/ image predates the concept of a Nazi. As does the symbol. The fact that it is ancient is part of the reason they co-opted it."

On 9/23/2021 at 6:27 PM, Quintus Arrius said:

It is my understanding, possibly dead-wrong, that any picture-taking would require a coin be posed in its raw state, a polite way of saying disrobed or de-encapsulated.  If that were to occur -- and I have not ruled it out -- the coin would then have to be re-encapsulated.

Required? I don't know. There are some slabs that are just so scratched and beat to hell. Personally, I think I did really good with my 10G set when they came back home, all 8 in pristine, new, unmarked, scratch-resistant holders. But, even then I have to deal with the prongs / supports blocking out part of the rim, so the images might fail your test on that basis.

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On 9/11/2021 at 2:22 AM, LeonK291 said:

Any follow up on this? Haven't seen any movement since and no change to the submission status. 

So it took over 3 weeks to get through encapsulation and imaging for you? That doesn't sound great...

On 9/23/2021 at 5:47 PM, Fenntucky Mike said:

PMG Forum here: Forums - PMG Note Collectors Chat Boards (pmgnotes.com), PMG and NGC are affiliated if you have access to one you have access to the other. I'm on there everyday, not that anyone else is.... well, except Revenant. 

 no matter how true it may be I'm not sure I appreciate that. 

On 9/23/2021 at 4:44 PM, J P Mashoke said:

Last time I checked with the dealer near me he said if it has been folded it is worth face value.

I'd agree on anything modern but that stuff is old enough and rare enough to get a small premium.