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Crawtomatic

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  1. So the site @Sandonlinked to provides a boast that less than half of coins submitted for stickering receive the sticker. And the goal is to apply the same stringent standards to the holdering itself. Does this mean they're only going to holder coins with a certain level of eye appeal? Or just that the grading will be more on par with the standards from years ago when Albanese worked on the grading floor. Maybe something before "market standards" started influencing numerical grade? p.s. Sorry to hijack a thread. But to the original poster, what I always noticed was that oldest ANACS holders have more respect than any other generation and are generally seen as good crossover candidates. Not sure the consensus on older NGC holders as there's been so many. And a really good thread detailing that @Conder101 put together that I still reference. I think it may depend on the generation, but I've seen some referred to as undergraded in comparison to today's standards.
  2. I'm pretty sure the 'why' is simply because they could. The late 60s and 70s was a growth period in marketed collectibles.
  3. I must admit I've been away for a bit, trying to catch up now and somehow missed an announcement of CAC grading. If you come across a link please let me know. Thanks.
  4. Getting max value is the job of the fence. For the thief they're in for $0 so any return is positive.
  5. Pretty jealous you have a Rydale. I considered one a few years back but decided against it. Have you seen the pics of the copper cent stackers that have 50 gallon drums full of them? So excessive and definitely not a good store of value. But separating out the copper at least makes hunting varieties a little easier by narrowing the focus.
  6. Let's derail into base metals and lowest acquisition costs. Scrapping! Or, as I like to call it, aggressive recycling. I'm by no means one of those truck driving guys loading up every cut of fence and busted washing machine. But, if I happen to see some janky electronics on the curb for bulk pickup there's a 70/30 chance I'll throw it in the back of the swagger wagon. Which then ends up in a pile in the garage. Which makes for a relaxing experience tearing down later screw by screw. To be further separated into plastics, steel, aluminum, copper/brass, etc... There's so much metal (mostly steel & aluminum) in things people just throw into a landfill. Especially when you consider how intensive it is to mine & refine aluminum. Far less often, I setup the propane furnace on the side patio and melt and pour the items. One of these days I'll actually try some sand or lost-foam casting. That's a "pure" hobby though. The kind that you do for the pleasure and have no perceptions that you'll make profit off of it.
  7. Not exactly a proper paraphrase but this scene did come to mind: Director of Mint - You run the joint. Maybe I'll try to help you, all right. Phila. Superintendent - God bless you, Paulie Robert. I appreciate it. You've always been fair with me. - Now the guy's got Paulie Robert as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie Robert. Trouble with a bill, he can go to Paulie Robert. - Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy - he can call Paulie Robert. - Now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's Robert's money every week no matter what. - Business is bad? F you, pay me. Had a fire? F you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning? F you, pay me. - Also, Paulie Robert could do anything. Especially run up bills on the joint's credit. - And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. - When deliveries are made at the front door you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. - You take a two hundred dollar case of booze Morgan Dollars and sell it for a hundred.
  8. And nary a response from the original poster as of yet! If this were a ploy by a savvy social media expert, slash, search engine optimizer, to generate activity on the forums and agitate the dues paid trolls - nay, members - into a flurry of supposition, postulation, accusation, and tangential discussion, then by all means, it was a successful endeavor. A shot across the bow that sent the rats a scurry and the sailors to their posts to return volley. I think I must stop reading every QA reply or else I'll find myself adopting the prose of a maniac.
  9. As a self-described collector of dead & dying media (coins included) I routinely feel like stamp collecting fell to the side because stamps lost their utility. Most collectors initially start collecting with an item they formed an emotional attachment to at a younger age. Even 40 years ago the act of mailing letters as a means of correspondence was on the decline. Then along comes the internet, email, chat boards, etc... I'd bet 51%+ of households today don't even have a stamp in their possession.
  10. I should have said "potential collector" rather than "casual collector". I feel like the 10 point scale approach is to draw in new eyes and collectors. I know when I've shown holdered coins to friends & family that are not in the numismatic community the secondary question is generally, "what does 63 mean?" Or whatever number it is. 0-70 isn't intuitive to a non-collector. But 0-100 or 0-10 is self-explanatory.
  11. Further proof that the N. American Sasquatch's territory extends into the vast forests & mountains of the New England countryside.
  12. Honestly, I didn't do anything extra or special. I just included it with a normal submission of foreign coinage and marked off the variety attribution and listed it out.
  13. Very interesting. It looks like I could be just comparing the 1915 and 1916 fonts separately. I didn't do an overlay though. These foreign overdates can be tough to track down images. I took a chance on a 1916/1 Chilean 5 centavo a few years back and NGC agreed with me on that one. Good eye!
  14. Oops. That must've been in my sabbatical. When I click on "Unread Content" it goes back quite a ways and I haven't quite caught up on my reading.