NGC Certifies Special Releases from US Mint Reserves with 2020 West Point Mint Hoard Attribution 1 1

[VKurtB]

Good man, Quintus! However, two problems; 1) Most collectors don't know, and care even less, about sending in the "old" labels, and 2) therefore, population reports are still the stuff of fantasyland.

How do we get others to send in cracked out labels too?

See? Your time here has educated you to things beyond your imagination already.

Edited July 20, 2020 by VKurtB

[Henri Charriere]

36 minutes ago, VKurtB said:

Good man, Quintus! However, two problems; 1) Most collectors don't know, and care even less, about sending in the "old" labels, and 2) therefore, population reports are still the stuff of fantasyland.

How do we get others to send in cracked out labels too?

See? Your time here has educated you to things beyond your imagination already.

You got that right!

[Henri Charriere]

On 7/20/2020 at 6:53 AM, Morpheus1967 said:

There is also a huge difference because if you crack the 1893S out of the slab, that's what you still have.  A 1893S morgan.  However, if you crack the 2012w eagle form the LE set out of the slab, it is literally no different than any of the other 2012 proofs.  Also, the 50,129 is not the mintage for the 2012W proof..  It is the number of limited edition sets they sold.  The actual total mintage for the 2012w proof is 877,731.  

There is a blasphemous, somewhat sacrilegious quality to your assertions which I strongly suspect are unassailable fact. Somewhere there is an owner of such a trinket quietly exclaiming, C'est vrai? (It's true?). Yet another instance where due diligence must be exercised. I must admit I am not a fan of ER/LE, etc. A First Edition book means something because it represents the original text not unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls.  At the risk of running afoul of the die-break fraternity, and those who assiduously study such arcane matters (some going so far as to stake their lives,  fortunes and sacred honor in pursuit of same) what say you in rebuttal to the contention that these coins are essentially one and the same but packaged with a prettier dress and a clever, catchy designation?