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Conder101

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  1. Or with a little patience and gentle rhythm they can turn a right-side up coin/slab into an upside down one and sell it for a premium. My understanding of the reason the black NGC's were holder in the orientation they were was because NGC listened to a consultant who told how critical it was for them to have their logo prominently placed on the front of the slab so it was the first thing seen. So the logo went on the front and the label went on the back. Collectors and dealers hated it and the color so almost immediately both were changed, white insert with label on the front and logo on the back. Then the problem was the plain white label disappeared on the white insert and that was quickly changed as well. That has been the going rate lately, about $4,000 over and above the value of the coin. Someone needs to report these to the census thread ATS https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/785123/ngc-black-slab-census-now-42-documented None of these are listed on the census, it will bring the known listings up to 48 pieces since the census began over 13 years ago. I can't do it because I'm banned over there.
  2. Which means that if they bring in their receipts they will be paid for their gold at $35 an oz. and their silver at $1.29 an oz.
  3. For the 1971 to late 20 teens no. Most of them sell for less than their issue price (mintages were high, in the 2 to 4 million range). But for the past few years the mintages of the proof sets have dropped so low that they now hold their value or even go up in value.(mintages as low as around 750,000 sets.)
  4. If the scale checks out as accurate a 3.7 grams cent would be fare enough out of spec to be worth a premium. Unfortunately I think the condition of the coin would reduce that premium.
  5. MAC stickered coins can be a 4FS This coin would be at best be said to have 2 steps and Roger may be right that even those two aren't full steps.
  6. You probably have a fair chance at getting you purchase price back from paypal, as long as you didn't use the "family and friends" option to get arounf th fees. But the customs fees and the NGC fees are basically gone.
  7. But a great many of those attracted will be driven off once they find that those coins they sank so much money into are now just worth bullion value at best. A great many people who get burned don't stick around to sing the praises of collecting, they bad mouth it to others as being a rip off.
  8. DEFINITELY a large date there are three diagnostics I use to identify the small dates and this coin fails all three. The shape of the 2 is wrong, the inside opening of the top of the 8 is too large (on the small date the diameter of the INSIDE of the upper loop is only about half that of the lower loop On the large date it is just slightly smaller the that of the lower loop.), and the distance from the tail of the 2 to the rim is too small.
  9. Looks like cleaned copper cent on a very slightly thin planchet.
  10. Clearly a magicians coin, the seam between the two pieces can clearly be seen above STATES OF in the second picture.
  11. If the coin is still at NGC, call customer service and you can probably get the designation corrected.
  12. Since these tokens were the same size as a modern cent, and the weight is greater than a bronze cent (3.4 grams as compared to 3.11 grams) I would go with a lead/tin or lead/zinc pewter alloy It is too heave to be copper, brass, or nickel alloy. Silver CWT are typically overstruck on seated dimes which would be 2.5 grams. I think it is too light be lead, and way too heavy to be tin, zinc, aluminum, or iron. It obviously isn't gilt. So that pretty much leaves e.The problem is "white metal" can pretty much be any silver colored alloy from aluminum alloys through lead alloys and the weights can vary widely. ("Pewter has the same problem, the term can be applied to a wide range of alloys.) Since it weighs more than a copper cent I would bet on a lead based alloy.
  13. Might not even be from the same die. Take two die pairs and have each of them clash, the alignment of the die features will be exactly or almost exactly the same on both die pairs, so the die clash marks will most likely be very nearly the same. Or at least in the same place. Difference in the die clashs could result from differences in the hardness of the dies when they clashed, difference in the force when the dies clashed, or how much wear the different dies have received since they clashed (wear from use or polishing)
  14. You're right about the boxed sets, but I believe you have the size of the boxes a little large. I think closer to 2 1/2 inches square. They were sold in those boxes by the Mint from 1936 to 42 and from 1950 to mid 1955, and then they went to the flat pack pliofim sets that continued through 1964. The 1955 sets came both ways. This came up because you said you distinctly remember the 52 and 54 sets you bought as being flat packs. They had to be box sets, and your later description is that of boxed sets.
  15. Probably because the Lincoln Memorial reverse always seemed to me to just be trying to present an "impression" of steps (even on proofs) rather than actually trying to indicate the actual steps the way the Monticello does.
  16. Would they fit? Reading the Slave Narratives turns up several references by former slaves mentioning earning small sums of money or receiving money and being allowed to keep it. For those that don't know one of the projects in 1937 in Roosevelt's make work WPA was to locate as many living former slaves as they could find and interview them about their life as slaves. These were typed up and grouped by state where the former slave now lived. Some of them are true narratives that even reproduce the actual "dialect" of the former slave while others are obviously the interviewer paraphrasing the subject.
  17. Dr Spock wrote at least 11 books on babies and child care. I know when I was young his books were considered to be the last word on child rearing. At least some of his books are still in print. His books on The first two years, and The school years were reprinted in 2002, his Pregnancy Guide in 2007, and the tenth edition of Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care was published in 2019. 21 years after his death.
  18. You only show one side so I don't know exactly which token it is, but it is from the county of Norfolk England. It is either D&H 23 or 24, Dies were by Thomas Wyon of Birmingham, and they were struck by Peter Kempson also of Birmingham. They were produced for a Merchant named Dinmore, and they struck 51,500 pieces of the two varieties combined. Both are considered common so assume a roughly even distribution or about 26,000 of each die pair variety, but each comes with more than one edge variety.
  19. So you download a special app that when run and pointed at a specific coin it recognizes it and runs a youtube video. Why am I not impressed?
  20. Because from the images it appears to me to be about 3 1/2 steps with bridging below both columns 2 and 3.
  21. Flat pack proof sets did not begin until mid 1955.
  22. So they are going to exchange a much higher lost package rate for faster delivery.. Personally I'd rather have the slower speed and be sure they would arrive eventually..