PQ has been around for a while.
We all know JD well, but he is more a technical person than a grader. He can tell you any variety or die state of a coin.
Eagle Eye is just ok and only carries weight with older copper guys. I feel bad for him, b…
The Hansen duplicate collection auction is an insult to me. Its not a real auction-in my opinion. Look at the opening bids-full retail plus. I could only imagine how bad they would be if he sold his really good stuff.
Do not get me wrong, I adore J…
I dunno, we did not go. Good thing, we never would have made it home. We would have had to go to Denver. Shame on the ANA for holding it in a harder to get to place and during the winter where storms do happen
This is one hijack of a thread I love! Keith rules! I met him at a friends recording studio in NYC when I was 20. Nice guy. I actually have a small collection of Richards memoribila-including a doodle he did. He is my fav rocker-Keith rules!
Great…
Didn't he create a museum or something? So many of these big rich guys are hurting the market by keeping a huge amount of coins off the market for longer periods of time then we have ever seen. I know 2 of my guys have their coins in trusts for the…
I'm jealous! Congrats on the 93CC Dr BB :-). That coin garnered a lot of interest. Someone is very disappointed.
Love the others too. Especially the 84CC
When I had LRCA I was lucky and thankful that Mikey and Jay chose us to sell the dupes. There were some sweet coins!
I think it is incredible what they and the collector are doing. Now that I am not in the auction biz, I'll do my part to endow St …
excellent post:
While I do enjoy the discussion of unicorn coins, I have a follow-up question about nice but over-graded coins.
John Butler’s example of the 20 MS66 Saints submitted to CACG, of which 14 were deemed to be 64+ coins, along with othe…
That Knoxville set was amazing! I was lucky to buy a coin or too-including my fav-the 50C 1833 PCGS MS68 CAC!!!!!!!!! EVERY coin Claude had was amazing. I'm a little confused though. I thought Contursi bought the set for like $7 million or so. Or wa…
Mikey, PS my customer owns the $5 1795 PCGS MS65 CAC and the $10 1795 PCGS MS65 CAC. Yeah that MS 66 was awesome!!!!!!!My other customer owns the 75S $20 PCGS MS67 CAC. None of these coins will be back on the market for a very long time.
Have to chime in about the 55 DD. I am still confused as to what coin is which. Many moons ago (and I mean many) GH and I bought what to this day we believe is the BEST 55 DD from Jay in 65RD. We wish we never sold it and think about it a lot. I thi…
JA why a bus? It could be a crazed local female dealer....
If they ever stopped stickering, I'd be afraid NONE of my customers would ever sell their beaned coins. That would be a horrible drag on the market.
I want to buy that 1796 25C so bad.....I have a guy doing a first year Type set-top grades (he has both 1795's Gold in MS65). The Leland Rogers dollar-I underbid it for Phil Flannagan. Then we happen to be at dinner at Bryns in Tampa-and Leyland was…
I was NOT trying to discuss the top % of collectors. I have ALWAYS felt strongly its the regular collector who gets burned the most and has little help. They quit and silently leave the hobby.
I want to see EVERY damn Morgan graded right-it can be…
Geez mark, its like 100 to 1 PCGS has the famous rarities in its holders. Hopefully when CACG does its registry that will change.
I was trying to point out what an upward battle CACG has. Its needs all the support to break into the the norm. If its…
I need to make it clear-there is no crime in not knowing how to grade or not being able to determine eye appeal. We are supposed to be able to trust the grading services. However, as we have seen over the years, grading has shifted and grading has b…
Hi Mikey!
Great post.
You know I am one of the few dealers who went 100% PCGS CAC when I realized the benefits of what CAC was offering to the public. I can't go all CACG today because there are not enough coins around-yet. I do 100% support CAC…
Hmmm. I have been corrected. I AM WRONG. Apparently. NGC coins being crossed are not as many as I thought because most of the good coins have been crossed to PCGS holders already....I also have been made aware of a mega major dealer who is crossing…
It seems CACG is getting lopsided crossovers. It sounds like (I can not prove) that well over half are NGC. I'd would love to know the reject rate.
What will it take to cross the PCGS coins other than a registry?
I'm frustrated by the lack of ot…
Why haven't we cross our inventory? We do send in coins. However, we are stuck with the problem of our customers right now demand PCGS CAC. Its a biz we spent heavily on building since CAC started. If we stopped cold turkey and crossed everything, w…
The current LB auction has less than few, the FUN Sale did not have many. Where are all the coins then? I just do not believe that 100,000 number is for rare coins other than generics or moderns.
SDMatt921-are your coins over $10,000.00? I do not …
I look around, I certainly do not see many nor do many of my dealer buddies have them (save for 2 dealers I know who have a few-not many). I do not think the CACG market has solidified yet to the point that many people are crossing their coins. Also…