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Point: Kurt BUT I'm pretty sure that type doesn't do something so mundane as hanging around at the "factory" as it were.

Where are you going to find one of those :-)

Won't be peak until you have MS-71, MS-72 &c

vs: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2023/10/05/why-businesses-are-struggling-to-keep-customers-happy

There are over 280,000 NGC listings right now. As pointed out upthread they are accepting - still only from a small # of bulk submitters - classic coins. To Henri's comment, yes, but if you squander the initial publicity window, that's something you never get back.

Legally, the weight should be the old weight until the effective date of the new weight, regardless of design, right? And the arrows are the markers for the changed weight. The closed vs. open 3 is just a minor design item - the best bet would be for somebody who knows how to find things at NARA to come across a letter explaining it. If only we knew such a chap....

I found a 9.6 (MS-67) ASE off fleaBay for my slab collection. One and done. OMG Kurt said something I agree with... can anyone check the forecast for H E double Hockey Sticks for me? I forgot my ice skates...

Talked to a medium-sized dealer at the show yesterday (Grapevine). He said "poof". Now he doesn't sell a lot of bullion coins, but NOBODY at the show (Grapevine, a 70-table regional) had any for sale either. He also said that opinions on the CACG slab are running 60% negative, 40% positive. Common objections are size and it doesn't fit in existing boxes. YMMV

When NGCX was introduced, there were a flurry of items for sale on eBay. I looked recently and there were only a few hundred listings. Did the market vote No?

It's usually said that it's a reverse intelligence test... they're trying to avoid wasting effort on people who will wise up before sending money. in fact, the sample given is "better" than the usual drivel.

Cat actually. 18 year old Calico. She's recovering nicely, walked upstairs today to complain about something I didn't do and then trotted right back downstairs.

Continues to show the fallacy of trying to maintain a fixed gold:silver ratio and argue with the market.

Oh dear ghu, if you start running around in Daisy Dukes, the apocalypse is surely next week!

I was only able to attend for about a day and a quarter as I had to return home for a medical emergency. She's fine - wasn't a stroke, it was a slipped disk. Anyway @VKurtvB I'm actually aware of seven sample slabs... Participant, finalist, and winner in Adult and YN The Enhanced QR code. Pics and permission to use for the Sample Slab book would be appreciated. Although ANA WFoM missed the 31 March 2023 cut off for the 3rd edition so it's not urgent.

That's not how it's generally reported. A gold bean means the coin is solid (A or B coin) at the NEXT grade level. CAC ignores + and *.

I found a very similar image for sale at one of the cheap stock photo sites. I didn't bother to search for the exact one (I thought I had found it, but my peeps corrected me ATS). The site costs $25/month for up to 5 photos.

It was reported at the time - weeks ago. I sent the article to my relatives.

You are missing the most important points. 1. If you undervalue there is a significant chance they will charge you the higher price. You agreed to that in the T&C. 2. If you undervalue and they don't catch it, that puts a limit on the insurance that is placed on the coin(s) in shipment and limits the payout if they are lost, stolen, or damaged.

PGA is garbage ... they're being sold in current auctions referencing PCGS' price guide. A PGA MS65 is not a PCGS MS65 - and you can see it in the auction prices... "Price Guide $4,500 ... sold for $500" which is probably still 2x value. SEGS runs hot & cold. They burned a lot of goodwill when they (SEGS Inc) shut down one Friday and reopened as SEGS, LLC on Monday. No visible difference in the slabs, but SEGS LLC refused to honor the guarantee from SEGS Inc ("the prior company"). They've since been sold to a far less reputable individual. NNC is a self-slabber, who used to be centsles on fleaBay. PCI was initially reputable, but went through several ownerships and periods of questionable grading... once you lose your reputation, you've got nothing left. For any company, you need to do some research to figure out who they are and roughly when the coins were slabbed to begin to figure out if the grades are even in the same league or not.

For the record, that particular piece of offal comes from a now gone self-slabber called Abon Coins - you can Google them to see that they were shut down by the USSS, FBI, IRS, and Local Law Enforcement for running a steal-to-order ring out of their coin shop. https://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/story/news/2014/07/23/secret-service-raids-abon-coin-shop/13070187/ https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/local/2014/07/23/secret-service-raids-abon-coin-shop/13054083/ And of course... https://www.iannfriedman.com/blog/2015/february/attorney-friedman-reaches-plea-deal-in-abon-rico/

The garbage is still sold on fleaBay in "dealer lots of 100 coins".

There is also the potential to integrate the slab information with a rich pool of data that could be presented via the website lookup.

Didn't anybody recognize the Spaghetti Hair from the Washington quarters...

Repoussé

The coinage act of 1857 (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=011/llsl011.db&recNum=184) was the turning point. Until then, the Treasury, Federal offices, Post-Offices and Land-Offices received AND paid out non-Federal coinage at par or based on published tables. The "Spanish" (Mexican) Dollar was a dollar, just like a Federal coin. The act imposed a haircut - a Spanish dollar was now 80 cents Federal. And they were not paid back out - instead they were sent to Philadelphia to be recoined into federal money. It was no longer legal for the Federal Government to pay out non-Federal coins. Also of interest is the requirement that the director of the mint assay foreign coins circulating in the US. You can find these tables in the yearly reports. https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/51?Year=1920&displayAmt=50.