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I'm a huge proponent of self-education and knowledge.... 3) .... Now, get dealer networks to play along and wholla... I have only three questions: 1. Thirty years and three hundred thousand dollars later, you and your seasoned associates are only now getting around to asking these questions? Had you, or your associates, ever ventured into anyone's chat board before? 2. You bill yourself a huge proponent of self-education and knowledge. What resources have you, and your associates, been relying upon to date? 3. By "wholla" did you mean voila! No further questions...

RE: "very seasoned collector". What spices and herbs are used to "season a collector?" Do they have to be brined or marinated before seasoning and roasting? Are there different seasonings for different collectors -- maybe saffron for gold collectors, or tyme and rosemary for silver coin enthusiasts? Not really important, just curious about what to look for at the concession places during the next big coin show....

No Fair LemE! You got yours in living color!

Probably about the same. Grade doesn't really matter, it's the ONLY one available. It's not a case of "I'll wait for a better one." (Unless it gets crossed and they bump the grade.)

Based on his same post on other forums and supposedly no follow-up or conversation on his part, it appears that the poster is looking to bash CAC, not receive an education. If, as he claimed, he's a "very seasoned collector" he's had ample opportunity over a long period of time, to get educated about CAC.

Woodward Iron Company Dolomite (Jefferson county) Alabama

Here is one of two pages from the Treasurer's transfer order journal for 1921 Peace dollars. The page date is January 4, 1922. A total of 740,000 pieces from the 1 million + mintage were shipped out to FRBs and FRB Branches. The coins were embargoed until Jan 6 (I think...? It's in the 1916-1921 book.) The dates at far left are the transfer date; the actual shipping date sometimes differed. (The original image is a lot sharper. This was prepared on a special wide-carriage typewriter.)

Funny how a guy submits for our perusal (elsewhere on the Forum) a photograph of a "Princess," a three-dollar gold coin purportedly the rarest minted for circulation in the United States, and his question regarding its authenticity is met with a barrage of one-word epithets from a bevy of highly regarded heavyweights -- veritable experts in the field of numismatics, denouncing it outright as a fake but dare pose a simple, uncomplicated question loaded with implication, such as, "Is it possible to find an uncirculated coin in change?" and the silence evoked from this same cohort is deafening: No comment. Really? Go figure.

I still look every day... Ya never know...LoL

about as likely as u dunking on dikembe mutombo in his house...

Well, then that means it can't possibly exist, since everything on the Internet is automatically true and Must Be Trusted.

You would think someone would have better things to do than post on a message forum about a company that might be seen by at most a few dozen people.

Good 4 U. Now I will quote myself: "me believe you are not what you profess to be".

I like the one where the Bison is hanging upside down like a Sloth

Is that another meaningless coin term....like "wire rim" or "branch mint proof?"

Nope. You're fine. CAC is a business that lets a coin reseller cherry pick a lot of coins at no cost to him. The reseller also knows where the coins are, who has them and other information that makes buying much faster and cheaper than the typical random process.

All just common circulated nickels worth five cents each. They would have to grade high MS to have any value.

i would just like to say a bit about third party grading , it has forced a lot of the bad influences out of the coin collecting industry and we are all the better for that. the laws of supply and demand means we need buyers with money interested in our coins, its essential for the hobby's future. and TPG does give many people confidence that a coin is real and in good condition. Remember that people compete in registry sets and pay a premium forthe ultra high grades, but you gotta remeber to that office politics play a part for graders like most other jobs. imagine a company have five graders who each grade 500 coins per day. After a week the boss looks at the stats, : grader 1 gave out 35/68's, 912/69's and the rest 70's, similar for grder's 2 and 3 and 4 and grader five (for similar coins) gave out 4990/70's and five 69's... How long would the boss keep this person on the books ????? their is a time limit on each submission and that is why you must pay extra for the rarer coins , if your coin is worth 99$ you might get a minute of the graders time. but if your coin is worth 22,000 smackaroos your not going to just get a minute of any graders time, your going to get multiple opinions and arguments before a slab is sealed around a coin that is worth a difference of 7,000$ between one grade or another. because the management knows their are competitors out their in the marketplace and those pesky little CACstickers;) on a different note : i love and hate you all !!! i live in a small place and i also almost live under a rock , i cannot learn to grade coins , in my location i have like five coin shops and recently decided to visit one. i looked and looked at that dealers junk, and i mean junk ; truly he had modern coins from papua new guinea in his display case and THREE unslabbed 1/4 gold coins i asked to see other stuff and was told everything was on display , to give him a purchase all i could find was a price catalog for $47 !!! ( did not buy ) i showed him one of my slabbed coins i had carried with me for the trip and he replied " you know those things can be faked ", i looked at his three little gold 1/4 coins and thought ' not as easily as those raw coins you have there ' ! ! ! i just thanked him and left and i was half way home when i realised his most likely business model was to buy coins off of unsuspecting suckers... i cannot grade coins since in my location their is no market and no opportunity to interact or learn to grade and that just sucks, so i am so jealous of you who can walk out your door to a coin show or coin dealer etc. My location gets ONE coin show per year !!! and that is my envy fetish and why i hate you and i love you for participating online ; so a huge thank you also. all i can do is chat online and enjoy my 70's knowing my decendents will get something worth something into the future, now i am going to go drool over my slabbs if that fool dealer had of engaged me and treated me as a customer with respect i would have easily put ten thousand dollars through his little shop if he had shown any interest in trying to find out my interests , now i just buy online since their is no other way ; but i do plan on other local dealer visits but make an appointment... enjoy your personal investment

here is why you should get these coins graded and slabbed. firstly these coins are obviously in high grade condition, true you have no idea if those airtites have ever been opened in the past but these coins are obviously high grade. next is that they are PROOF coins and not bullion or mint state MS coins. these coins came to you for zero dollars , so how can you lose money by having them graded let us assume each coin is worth a hundred dollars , depending on family dynamics if these coinscame from your parents you might value the $100 at fifty dollars (j/k) but ssome people have issues LoL. but these coins came from your grandmother so to you they are probably worth $500 !!! so who cares about the fifty dollars for grading to future generations their family value should be even higher. when it comes to selling no one can argue with the slab grade realistically. it is becasue of con men / women and such that grading has become so essential. but what the slab does is tells you nd everyone else that the coin is real genuine and that it is exactly what it is, their is no disputing its minting etc like some dealers would try to mislead you on if they felt they could save buying money. you will know what you own and be able to easily gestimate its value online 24/7 forever ! ! ! your insurance company will be happier also, and if you have found a very rare modern proof it ill be statd on the holder. even if three coins comeback as 67 or 68 it easy to find someone to crack them out of the slab and replace them in the airties and sell as raw coins. another factor is everyone has an opinionof the best basketball or football teams etc. , grading takes much of those rguments aay and protects yourcoins the best way possible. you got to understand that all the other comments here are most likely fromcoin fanatics ho have spents many MANY thousands of hours gaining their knowledge with much experience in travelling and buying and selling , do you REALLY want to invest yourself into all of that hopeyou enjoy your coins and continue to find coins exciting !!!

I only follow folks who are right like 90% of the time, like those football experts that helped Homer Simpson:

Thanks Boss. I was just researching coin grading and Low Ball Coins popped up. Never heard of this before and I guess it is a recognized genre of coin collecting. There are actual Lowball Registry sets, mostly coins from the 1800's. About ten years ago a PO01 1897-S Morgan Dollar sold for $565.

Could be as many as several hundred thousand buying generic pre-1933 gold predominantly for financial reasons but I suspect there are also a noticeable number who own this coinage in larger number. Last I checked, the 1904 DE had a TPG count of about 300,000, the price spreads indicate a very low proportion of duplicates, and there are possibly many more. The most common Saints have a similar number. Your collector population estimate seems a reasonable one., as I presume most of the scarcer dates (like 1932) are owned by those collect the series, though a noticeable minority might also be collected by big budget collectors who don't. Regardless of the actual number, it's evident that there are only a very low proportion buying the 1904 DE predominantly as a collectible. Most collectors will never own a coin of similar value their entire life and it's not competitive as a collectible versus the alternatives in the same price range. Morgans are much cheaper but a similar concept applies. A common date like the 1881-S potentially has a million UNC and the counts are also hundreds of thousands. However "popular" the series may be, it's very unlikely more than a very low proportion of the collector base owns it. There just aren't enough of them. Similar idea for a coin like the 95-W ASE, higher mintage modern commemoratives and even proof sets. The latter have declining mintages but collectors either often own it in multiple or it's likely there are still a noticeable proportion of non-collectors/casual collectors buying it. More recent silver proof sets have mintages of about 300,000+ which isn't remotely low.

It's not a grade at all. But if the coin was submitted, then I don't see why the request would not be made by NGC. The coin has damage which in a polite term is Details. Plus it is a genuine cent so my guess would be it would holder as Details-Genuine.

Yep. Do they include how often they are wrong in their diatribes? If these 'commentators' are correct 50% of the time, then they are no better than guessing or tossing darts. Basic gain equals a successful advisor; 70% is a genie right out of the bottle; and more is the genie who owns his own bottle! Did you note the real success rate?

Me and my buddy looked very hard to try and find out what it was and there's nothing that popped up. I even used the reverse image search method to see if it would pop in google/being images and nothing popped up. My grandfather had it passed down to him from my Uncle Peter and my Uncle Peter got it when he was in England I believe.

I'm sorry I asked.

When did the Denver mint start making proofs?

Details-Genuine

I don't presume to speak Bisonese, but assume, like humans, nature calls and when it does, does it lean over and whisper in your ear, bolt without warning, or simply go?

What's interesting is that if you go back and read coin articles from 5 or 10 or 15 years ago (as I've done), you see some of the more well-known dealers and commentators saying that collectibles are dirt cheap. And you keep seeing those comments. But the coins just got cheaper. At SOME POINT, they might be right. Maybe......

Especially when they are ...dripping... with luster. I had to take a few more pix to ...try... to get the luster right. Didn't quite succeed. But it's a fave. I looked long and hard for a nice Pan-Pac half dollar.

OK. Thanks for the extra information, photos and time. Maybe I need new glasses....? Or -- maybe just a couple of glasses of Scotch.

QA you are an eloquent orator if i do say so myself.

Yes that's why Kurt was banned.

Or if you try to open a thread that has been deleted or moved to an opt in section. There are a half dozen or so of them. Yes but typically not immediately. Normally it would take several violations. Or by reading the rules. Most who get banned are due to repeated violations of the printed rules. And CT usually gives warning about violations and does give people timeouts too, not just immediate bans usually unless violations are especially egregious. Such as Kurt's threat to sue them.

One font used on one side; another used on the other. An absolutely gorgeous #5 and an ampersand written the way it was when it used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. Great stuff, Just Bob!

I know this may seem absolutely incredible but what happened here is obvious. Someone was led terribly astray and mutilated a perfectly good 1943 copper cent in the mistaken belief it was the 1942 that was more valuable. And the evidence is there for all to see. An amateurish attempt to all but obliterate the trademark tail-flourish of that fabled 3. That's all there is to it.

No....not pareidolia, That the is original hidden Sanskrit inscription, accidentally transferred to Lincoln's hair by a Hare Krishna devotee working at the Philadelphia Mint in 1940. The circled inscription, loosely translated, reads: "Hey Babe. Meet me down by the levy at 7."

This one is pretty well struck for the year. Particularly the Reverse.

I bought this MS64 just because I liked the color

Just picked up these two for my registry set.

Just got this a few days ago. Took a break from the nickels to get this one. I just really liked the looks of this. Normally not a fan of the brown toning, but it just seems to work on this coin. The fingerprint almost drove me away but something just kept bringing me back to this one. Pulled the trigger. Glad I did. NGC MS-63

SUPER coins all!! Snagged this piece:

Received this one 2 days ago, a addition to my Birth Year collection...I really need to get a better set of pics.

This one arrived today, my first new die marriage in a while!

Some coins for my circulated type set I picked up recently