Will NGC start a Canadian Set Registry, also?

[shirohniichan]

PCGS slab promoters in Canada got their way, and in January we'll see PCGS Canadian Set Registries.

 

Will NGC follow and plague Canadian collectors with Set Registries of its own?

[keithdagen]

Ack, Dark Side, ack!!

[EVillageProwler]

I don't do Canadians, but that sounds like a good idea...

 

EVP

 

[gmarguli]

PCGS slab promoters in Canada got their way, and in January we'll see PCGS Canadian Set Registries.

 

Oh thank god. Now I have a reason to send in all those Olympic bullion coins for grading. I'm sure I can make a few MS70s and sell them for obscene amounts of money.

 

Anyone want to pre-order than? Free shipping with all pre-orders.

[Oldtrader3]

If it is the Canadian $5 and $10 Montreal Olympic coins that you are talking about, every Canadian already owns at least one set. They have patiently been waiting for silver to cross $60 so that they can break even.

[shirohniichan]

If it is the Canadian $5 and $10 Montreal Olympic coins that you are talking about, every Canadian already owns at least one set. They have patiently been waiting for siver to cross $60 so that they can break even.

 

That may be true, but how many have PCGS-slabbed MS-70s? They'll go from being worth 10% below spot to $4,000 per coin!! At least, that's the what some dealers are hoping will happen...

[Oldtrader3]

I guess that position is a long shot. My Dad dutifully bought me a set, at the time. I hung unto to it for about 20 years and then dumped it. I would not hold my hat on that one.

[keithdagen]

Greg's a Dark Sider

[shirohniichan]

I was going to say the Olympic coins will skyrocket when pigs fly, but I'm too late!

[keithdagen]

Ouch, you scum!!! Give warning before linking to a Dark Side website and coin. What are you trying to do? Convert us?? Never!!!

[Hoot]

Hate to admit it, but I followed Shiro's link to the RCM and found the Vimy Ridge silver 5 cent piece... Oh dear, I bought two!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Allegory at it's best! Commemoration at its best!!! And on a 5 cent piece - WOW!!!!!!!

 

Slinking away, Hoot

[keithdagen]

Argghhh. Another convert.

[shirohniichan]

My job here is done. Another falls to the darkside (or grayside).

 

Heh, heh, heh....

[Tradedollarnut]

Does it count that I have a Jersey (Great Britain) MS set somewhere in the basement? Bought it back in the 80's because of the incredible toning on the coins.

[keithdagen]

Next thing you know, LordMarcovan, your minion of evil, will show up and start DS giveaways.

[shirohniichan]

Does it count that I have a Jersey (Great Britain) MS set somewhere in the basement? Bought it back in the 80's because of the incredible toning on the coins.

 

Eeeeeeexcellent (in the voice of Mr. Burns).

[gmarguli]

Greg's a Dark Sider

 

Never. It's just that when I buy collections, there are frequently these bullion coins in them. Everyone seems to have some.

 

I honestly think I'll send in a few to PCGS and see what happens. The grading fees are cheap enough to try a set of them.

 

[Hoot]

It is ironic that shortly after I bought those 5 cent pieces from the RCM, I got an email from a friend and colleague who lives in Toronto. Here's what he has to say about Canada:

 

This ***king stink hole of a pretentious country. Canada, what a joke!

 

Buy the coin, not the country.

 

Hoot

[shirohniichan]

Tell him to move to BC (the province, not the era).

[keithdagen]

Tell him to move to BC (the province, not the era).

 

Is he a communist or a Japanese tourist?

[Hoot]

Is he a communist or a Japanese tourist?

 

He's an Isopterist.

 

Hoot

[keithdagen]

He tells Greek fables?

[Hoot]

He tells Greek fables?

 

He does that, as well as telling other tall tales. For what it's worth, he's not a native Canook.

 

The attached shows his greatest love in life. Thus the epithet.

 

So he has problems, we all do.

 

Hoot

[braddick]

All I know is it's taken me 30 years of collecting, off and on (mostly 'on') to get just the U.S. coins down (somewhat). Now I've got to learn Canadian?

 

Aggggghhhh!

[keithdagen]

What Shiroh hasn't realized is that, to participate in the Registry, he has to SLAB all his coins.

[Oldtrader3]

I am with you. The only thing that I have lost money on consistantly is Canadian Issues, both coins and stamps.

[shirohniichan]

The only thing that I have lost money on consistantly is Canadian Issues, both coins and stamps.

 

I thought consistency in slabbed coins was a good thing.

[Oldtrader3]

It certainly is, without slabs, I would have lost more money. Most collectors in the US do not know how to grade Canadian Dollars (le Voyageur type).

[shirohniichan]

Most collectors in the US do not know how to grade Canadian Dollars (le Voyageur type).

 

Yea, verily.

 

If the Canadians were smart, they'd market their silver dollars as "Voyeur dollars" to US collectors. I'm sure interest would skyrocket!

[Oldtrader3]

Not Japan, The Hong Kong flight of money has bought western Canada the land and Real Estate and won't sell cheap.