Nutmeg Coin

You apparently want to justify arbitrary turn-around times, I personally do not know any other business that is taking over a month to open mail: "Now opening packages delivered the week of August 24, 2023". The only thing I can think of is that you have a business association with NGC and therefore have a bias. An honest posted turn-around time would add on the wait to open submissions.

When you have no logic to support your position that whatever the company wants to do with submissions is hunky dory then you have to resort to calling names. If you want to schmooze with the companies at shows that's all well and good, but you're not running a business that depends on reasonable turn around times, many dealers have their capital tied up and don't want to pay high rates for grading. And has been discussed it's not about the grading it's about the slabbing and the order entry that is now happening well over a month after the package arrives. Is there any other business in America that takes over a month to open customer orders like this?

It's standard operating practice to anticipate the delays and hire more staff at busy times. They are making a huge amount of money in this business, so there really is no excuse for these delays unless a genuine extended disaster hit.

80% of the graders at PCGS, NGC, ICG and Anacs agree on grades, so the idea that waiting somehow equates to more accurate or better grading is complete and utter balderdash! Plus it's besides the point. The one submission I have with them was graded a month ago! And it is waiting for final slabbing, and shipping. No responsible business operates with this type of arbitrary business practice, customer service says they will try to find out why the submission is way longer than the projected time but nothing happens week after week!

"Now opening packages delivered the week of August 21, 2023." I have one submission well over 10 days over target time for being done, graded over a month ago waiting for slabbing. When I've called all I get is there was a hurricane and someone was out sick, this with a company of 700 employees according to VKurtB.

Sounds like a propagandist for their irresponsible business operations! Maybe their current management should have their minds checked out for soundness and then hire some competent processing clerks so they can run their business properly! Literally a month waiting for packages to be just opened? And I've seen turn around times jump all over the place from 23 business days to 20 to over 40 to back to 35 or so....after the packages get opened which could be many weeks! And they tell us these are merely estimates. How would you feel if your priority mail item with a target time of 2-3 days ends up taking 10 days?? And what business charges when they log in a submission? Hardly any business charges prior to a service being rendered.

I had a customer whose father was in the car, who I met, when we did a transaction at Starbucks. He had collected gold back in the 30s and had a couple stories.

What happened to the truly rare coins of which we have a record that they were minted and proferred to some VIP? Such as the other 1849 Double Eagle, putatively the rarest US coin?

EF40-45. I'm not seeing much if any luster. Anything in the AU range would likely come back "improperly cleaned" as NGC likes to use if a coin has better details but little luster; and even EF coins should show luster.

The fact there are no Morgan dollars graded by NGC or PCGS as MS70 tells you something. As far as I know there are a few 1880-s Morgans that graded MS69, and that issue usually comes quite nice.

Congratulations! A true colossus in the field of numismatics, I wish that translated into big $$$ for him as well, as book writing isn't as profitable as it once was.

One of our local members has a couple articles this month, one on "Short snorters", ie when dollar bills etc. are signed by a number of military personnel: http://www.crnsputnam.org/index_htm_files/Short Snorter.pdf The other is on Hard times tokens and satirical notes: http://www.crnsputnam.org/index_htm_files/1837 Hard Times Tokens and Saterical Bank Notes.pdf Ralph was the president of the Danbury coin club back in the 60s when he got out of the military. He's been welcomed back.

Sounds like very desperate and scared people...and of course every employer wants workers who will ask no questions, that won't report illegal, immoral or criminal behavior and will do all they're told and are easily replaceable. And if the workers are illegal aliens, that can be a subset of human trafficking. With more and more of them, our society becomes increasingly unstable. We saw in the 1990s how local tech workers were displaced by immigrants with lower wages for those who were able to accept them. The arguments that we can't find people to do the jobs of immigrants just isn't true if you have facilitators who can make it work.

The Fuljienz/Winter book on double eagles is more a sales book, they gave it to collectors free of charge and it is useful for beginning collectors to get a ranking on rarity. Waves of hoards have come out in the last 25 years changing the population figures, shipwrecks, bank hoards from Europe, etc.. Definitely a lot of change in recent history.

Thanks for sharing the factoids from the QDB book, I always found him to be a top notch numismatist and competent writer. Until later in the 1990s gold double eagles were not collected so much by condition as the grading system took off. Type two DEs took off in price and interest in the late 90s and on. It was Anthony Swiatek I believe who told me that as I didn't get into the hobby until about that time.