Revenant

On 1/4/2024 at 5:53 PM, VKurtB said:

So what kind of COVID vaccine is Moderna doing? Is it still mRNA or is it a different technology? My first three jabs were Pfizer/BionTech mRNA, and I never got any of those targeted variants. But we have begun interacting more lately, and now I’ve gotten different variants two times. In case you haven’t figured it out, COVID will be with us forever. 

Yes, they ditched the cards and the last time we got the jab the Dr told us that it was now considered endemic and we were going to just have annual CoVID shots now to go with the flu shots. Such a joy. The world keeps turning and finding ways to try to kill us.

On 12/25/2023 at 8:31 PM, Henri Charriere said:

He did say they were "washed out."  Not everyone is a crack photographer.  🤣

To this I would add, White Balance / White balancing can be tricky when you don't have a grey / white object in the shot for calibrating on.

As a ChemE, I'd always heard the term "noble metals" applied to metals that generally don't rust or tarnish.

It's also sometimes funny to me to think that aluminum was once considered semi-precious, or at least valuable, because for a time it was very hard to produce / separate metallic aluminum. Then they found a cheap way to do it and all of a sudden you get aluminum cans instead of tin cans. But it was surprising and funny to find Italian coins from the ~1950s made out of Aluminum.

On 1/3/2024 at 8:49 AM, GoldFinger1969 said:

I just got the new Covid Moderna shot yesterday.  Seemed to have a worse reaction this time.  My left shoulder is still very sore 20 hours after I got the shot.  

My reaction to my latest booster was pretty terrible at the injection site. Same for my son and Mother-in-law. I was quite shocked. I had redness for days in that spot and the skin was hot to the touch.

And honestly I prefer it that way. I want my sets to be my showcase. I wouldn't want a public comment section.

For Argentina, we currently have the following:

Would it be possible to get "Type Set, 1992-Date, Circulation Issue?"

On 3/5/2023 at 1:22 PM, Revenant said:

Started with the 2020 awards like Mike said (which were sent in early 2021). The 2020 awards came with a S-mint Morgan from the 1880s in MS64. The 2021 awards had a 2021 American Silver Eagle in MS69 (IIRC, haven't looked at it recently but I don't think it was an MS70). And now the 2022 awards had a Common-Date Peace Dollar in MS64.

In fairness to NGC I feel the need to correct myself, the 2021 Eagle was an MS70.

On 2/25/2023 at 7:33 AM, physics-fan3.14 said:

When did they start sending coins with the awards? This was the first time I've gotten a coin, so it must have been after 2017. 

Started with the 2020 awards like Mike said (which were sent in early 2021). The 2020 awards came with a S-mint Morgan from the 1880s in MS64. The 2021 awards had a 2021 American Silver Eagle in MS69 (IIRC, haven't looked at it recently but I don't think it was an MS70). And now the 2022 awards had a Common-Date Peace Dollar in MS64.

On 2/23/2023 at 7:27 PM, GoldFinger1969 said:

Congrats to the registry winners and participants....it's not my cup of tea but I know it requires dedication and lots of work.

Mazel Tov !!!  

The joy is in the research and the reading, the sharing of a story, and cuddling up in bed and looking at coins with my wife to pick the best one. When a set wins after that it is very nice though.

On 2/16/2023 at 10:31 AM, Ali E. said:

Hi, Revenant.

The NGC Registry is a mirror of the NGC label and grading screens. Please email service@NGCcoin.com. Please tell Customer Service that one of your coins is a "mechanical error." After they make necessary updates to coin descriptions on their end (in the grading screens,) we can make any necessary adjustments to slot names in the NGC Registry. Thanks, and have a good day. 

I don't actually have one of these graded yet 🤣 - though I am planning to submit one of each in the coming months to finish that set.

This is less about having a new slot added and more about having a slot edited.

The Venezuelan type set for the 2007-Date coinage has separate slots for the 2010 and 2011 25 Centimos and labels both "Independence Anniversary"

Reform Coinage, Type Set, 2007-Date, Circulation Issue Sets | NGC Registry | NGC (ngccoin.com)

The text on the 2010 coin is listed as "Dawn of Independence" where the 2011 is "Signing of the Independence Act." 

The reason I ask about this is looking at this you might not be blamed for thinking this should be 1 slot in a type set but the coins are actually a little different:

I was looking at Libertad1998's Swiss Gold 20 Franc set (won an award in 2018) and it looks like the Expert comments displayed are for a different winning set. They reference Argentina and eight reales coins from 1813-1837. 

I was hoping this could get fixed so the correct comments can be displayed with the set.

Could we get 3 new slots added for:

Reform Coinage, Type Set, 2007-Date, Circulation Issue Sets | NGC Registry | NGC (ngccoin.com)

I'm looking for a slot for:

2021 Venezuela 25C (Cert# 2885471-020)

2021 Venezuela 50C (Cert# 2885471-021)

2021 Venezuela 1B (Cert# 2885471-022)

On 7/24/2022 at 10:14 AM, Fenntucky Mike said:

Maybe he already has one.  We were chatting about the new Zim gold "coin" being released the other week, across the aisle, so I dug this out of storage and posted a pic of it. I don't think he was impressed. 

Though I might as well post it over here as well, just haven't had a free moment to do so until today. 

Ah, well, sorry if my response underwhelmed.  I've actually been told on multiple occasions by my wife that I'm a bit of a horrible gift recipient - People give me things and I quietly sit there looking at it - examining it because I'm curious but not being very outwardly happy usually.  I'm also usually not a very effusive person even though my excessive use of "  " might suggest otherwise. Anyway... Yeah. I do like those. I find them interesting from a historical / collecting perspective, in much the same way I find the 2001 gold coins they made interesting. But, if I'm being honest, I do find the coin design a bit underwhelming. They have the same feel and spirit to them as those old US Assay office rounds. I also find it odd and a little interesting that it's a SILVER coin celebrating the opening of the Zimbabwe GOLD refinery.   

To coinbuff's point though (and yours) no. I don't own one, but I could definitely be down to get one if one came up at an attractive price.

Sorry. I think it's been a solid 1-1.5 months since I've been active over here. 

Wanna know something horrible? I filled out all the paperwork for that coin submission three weeks ago, bound up all the coins in groups of flips 2 weeks ago and they're still in the house.  I'm working on boxing them up, printing a label and scheduling a pick-up. If these don't get back by December, it's my own dang fault but... life is never dull with a 6 year old and a 3 year old with CP.even when you have the extreme luxury of working from home.

On 5/1/2022 at 5:12 PM, Coinbuf said:

it is NGC only for the world sets, something that some world collectors would like to see changed too.

I don't think we'll ever see that though. Because of how NGC and PCGS differ on their labeling and such - the reason NGC gave in the beginning - it'd make too much of a nightmare for them. World PCGS just ain't coming back.

I think people just need to accept that they need to decide what they want to be and make their peace with it. You want to collect what you like and not care about holders? Cool. Don't sweat the registry. You want to participate in a registry? Cool. Pick a company and buy / grade / submit accordingly.

Personally, I like a consistent presentation, and it bugs me to have a set that has radically different holders. So I was always going to end up mostly collecting one company / one set of slabs for the visual consistency of the collection. So it doesn't harsh my mellow much. 

On 4/12/2022 at 5:24 AM, Fenntucky Mike said:

A "mechanical error" that NGC will fix at no-charge. The orientation of the coin in the holder is completely up to their discretion and from what I understand submitters can also request which side of the coin is "up" in the holder. 

Nothing to see here. 

Yeah. It gets a little funny though in some series where they flip-flop on what side goes up over the years and so you get some very funky looking sets of slabs - I think my  Kookaburras are like this. Some have the (yearly changing) bird side up, some of the Queen up. Since I don't show the full holder in the images I post anyway, on those series / coins, I upload the pictures they way I want them, to be consistent. Regardless of how the coin is oriented in the holder.

On 4/11/2022 at 6:49 PM, Coinbuf said:

In this niche area of collecting yes it is more about the holder than the coin, NGC gen1, gen 2 and gen2.1 are hot and the prices have been climbing on these.   The same can be said for the PCGS OGH and some of the rattlers, especially the ones that have cert numbers starting with 108.   There is a small but active group of collectors (myself included) who find enjoyment in the collection of such items, really no different that those who collect (and pay crazy prices) for damaged coins (now known as errors) or the insane premiums some are willing to pay for color, it is an upside down market in many ways.

Yeah... That's a bit too niche for me. I can kind of see it to an extent, I do think things like that could be interesting, and I even sometimes could see paying a *little* extra for something like that... But the coin is ultimately where it's at for me, and I don't think I'd pay much more than maybe 10%-20% over the going rate for the coin for the novelty of that. I would really struggle to pay 3 or 4 or 5 times the going rate for the coin just because of the holder. The fact that there are people who will just says to me that there's way too much speculation and way too much money sloshing around looking for something to do.

I say that, knowing that I've said a lot about my set of 10G coins having mostly been in the older gen holders when I got them and mostly with older 195/196 serial numbers that were issued around 1993, but that was more about the shared history of the coins and the story of the set, not the holders - which I made pretty clear when I sent them all in to be re-holdered into scratch resistant holders last year so they'd all be pretty and match with each other.  

In Italy, 500 Lire, 1982-2001, Circulation Issue, the set skips from 1989 to 1991. I think there should be a slot for 1990 - I've actually sent off a 1990 for grading that has the same reverse as the coins listed, so I think the 1990 belongs in this set even though it looks like the set excludes some of the circulating commemoratives like the 1996, and the 1997. 

On 1/26/2022 at 3:27 PM, Coinbuf said:

And congrats to you sir, two best in category is a solid achievement.  

Depending on the category you pick it could be monumental - the Morgan dollars, the Lincoln pennies... Some of those... 😱