john said:
Remain picky.It is satisfying to irritate those that are not, by being so. It is a warm control freak sensation that also makes people leave me alone.
I prioritize my want lists based on availability mainly. I sometimes place a modest bid on a coin that is more readily available, but that I will eventually get to. Rarely win.
I have a beautiful NGC stickered red ‘38 proof as part of a set. It isn’t going anywhere. My other NGC Legacy coins have been submitted for crossover, including a fattie.
LarryC said:
I think CAC should allow us to enter any cert number to determine any coins status such as CAC, no CAC and Undetermined (which means it’s never been to CAC). This would help differentiating the value of any coin. After all the goal…
SDMatt921 said:
Gut tells me most everything over $1k in value has been to CAC.
Probably a good starting point when evaluating s purchase, but “everything” of course isn’t the case.
It may be a while before we can draw any sort of reasonable conclusion regarding CAC and CACG divergence. I would guess that not many collectors crack out stickered coins and put them in a Dansco or similar. Perhaps one of the more adventurous (?) f…
I would at least do some research into the prices GC gets for details coins. They seem to be handling quite a few these days. If prices are roughly comparable, GC means FAR less effort and no potential issues.
On the subject of details coins, I seem to see a lot more details coins for sale these days. Thinking GC and eBay in particular. Assuming for the moment that this isn’t simply my imagination, I’m curious if there is data that would indicate that pr…
The number of cleaned coins is noteworthy, especially those that had been stickered. I won’t be crossing anything without a minimum grade and don’t have any raw US coins. I will be tempted to sell those that don’t cross within a grade. In any event …
World coins circulated in th US until 1857, and probably for some time afterwards. My world coin collection consists of those coin types that are documented as found here in places like Jamestown and Williamsburg, by detectorists, or are well docume…
jacrispies said:
Hmmmmm, a die break is attributed at CACG as an error? I personally disagree with that designation since it is a repeated diagnostic that is solely due to die failure. Where will CACG draw the line between error and variety?
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I’ll bet JA is sorry he used the ABC analogy. In reality i reckon that coins that failed to sticker would not, for the most part, cross at the same grade. Do we have examples of coins that didn’t sticker, but we’re submitted and successfully crossed…
Depends on the coin of course. There are a lot of sleuths out there who can track coins based on their markers, coloration, etc. We’ve seen plenty of examples of coins that were matched along their journey based on appearance only.
Let me see if I’ve got this. Coins outside of the market norm (including varieties) for non-error coins, such as the Lincoln with the enormous cud, will be sent over to the error guys. They will assign a numeric grade and add informative language to…