WOW! What a Terrific Idea

19Lyds · March 15, 2011 8:32AM

Think PCGS will do something like this?

Rampage · March 15, 2011 8:34AM

I don't think it really helps the coin. Special labels don't really mean anything to me, although I can appreciate how some folks do feel the need. There are coins I send in for grading that are worth only a few dollars, but I send them in for sentimental purposes or just because I want to. I can view this as the same concept.

GoldenEyeNumismatics · March 15, 2011 8:34AM

If they do, I imagine it will cause a significant rise in price for some modern varieties.

Broadstruck · March 15, 2011 8:34AM

Why

kimber45ACP · March 15, 2011 8:36AM

I sure hope not. I would hate to get a label that said it was coin #75, when I think it is coin #1.
I generally don't agree with top 100 lists, not with guitar players and not with coins.

lordmarcovan · March 15, 2011 8:53AM

Eh. OK. Whatever.

*yawn*

Patches · March 15, 2011 9:00AM

I agree with why do it, it isn't factual information by putting a rank on a coin. Someones #100 is someone elses #1...just the facts!

golfer72 · March 15, 2011 9:05AM

Total non starter! Disappointed in NGC actually.

illini420 · March 15, 2011 9:07AM

Just set up a registry set for the top 100 whatever... unnecessary to put it on the actual label. Having it on the label could just as easily turn a collector off vs. get them excited about the moderns.

Bochiman · March 15, 2011 9:18AM

Yuck!
I hope PCGS doesn't stoop down to doing something like that. Makes it look cheesy and unappealing. I would REALLY have to like that particular coin to have that slab in my collection.

Batman23 · March 15, 2011 9:21AM

Oops, I misunderstood what the ranking meant.

telephoto1 · March 15, 2011 9:24AM

When I see labels like that, I think "Home Shopping Network"...

kimber45ACP · March 15, 2011 9:27AM

<< When I see labels like that, I think "Home Shopping Network"... >>

Don't forget the red oak presentation box

19Lyds · March 15, 2011 9:31AM

<< Why

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Why Not? If it can generate interest in coin collecting, it can only be good for the hobby. And what better way to generate submissions than whats been outlined in a book?

I'm seriously thinking about it but I need to buy the book first! Maybe the Sacramento Show will have some copies for purchase?

RYK · March 15, 2011 9:32AM

Put me in the "Eh" camp

19Lyds · March 15, 2011 9:38AM

Too often, seasoned collectors forget what its like to NOT have a goal in collecting. I can't recall the number of threads posted by folks wondering what they should collect next.

IMO, this offers a goal as well as introduces folks to the various types of Modern US Coins that are out there. I think its a great idea to inject new interest in coin collecting with a reasonable obtainable goal. Collecting is supposed to be about having fun with realistic goals.

RYK · March 15, 2011 9:47AM

<< Too often, seasoned collectors forget what its like to NOT have a goal in collecting. I can't recall the number of threads posted by folks wondering what they should collect next.

IMO, this offers a goal as well as introduces folks to the various types of Modern US Coins that are out there. I think its a great idea to inject new interest in coin collecting with a reasonable obtainable goal. Collecting is supposed to be about having fun with realistic goals. >>

One can very easily collect the 100 Greatest Modern Coins without having a label on the slab that says so.

Baley · March 15, 2011 9:50AM

Has the coin collecting shark been jumped yet?

getting very close to the bottom of the idea barrel

Batman23 · March 15, 2011 9:52AM

I just read a bit further, forget my previous comment I misunderstood at first glance

It is not a bad idea but does not get me too excited. But then again I do not primarily collect moderns.

REALGATOR · March 15, 2011 9:54AM

Lame. <eom>

RYK · March 15, 2011 10:09AM

<< Has the coin collecting shark been jumped yet?

getting very close to the bottom of the idea barrel >>

It's looking that way...

lkeigwin · March 15, 2011 10:51AM

Ugh. I think it's awful.
Lance.

timcoin · March 15, 2011 11:10AM

<< I sure hope not. I would hate to get a label that said it was coin #75, when I think it is coin #1.
I generally don't agree with top 100 lists, not with guitar players and not with coins. >>

I almost always try to avoid posting something negative about someone else's work, and I'm sure the 100 Greatest... is a fine book that no doubt took a lot of time and effort to put together. I hope the authors are proud of that work, and they should be. But I have to say, I have to agree with the above comment 100%. When it comes to what I collect, mine is the only ranking that count

timcoin · March 15, 2011 11:16AM

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<< Too often, seasoned collectors forget what its like to NOT have a goal in collecting. I can't recall the number of threads posted by folks wondering what they should collect next.

IMO, this offers a goal as well as introduces folks to the various types of Modern US Coins that are out there. I think its a great idea to inject new interest in coin collecting with a reasonable obtainable goal. Collecting is supposed to be about having fun with realistic goals. >>

One can very easily collect the 100 Greatest Modern Coins without having a label on the slab that says so. >>

Exactly. If the coins were not ranked, but grouped as "one of the 100 greatest," then I'd like the idea a whole lot more.

Papi · March 15, 2011 11:23AM

Really? The Handshake nickel #82?

What happens when #100 gets bumped off the list by next years "greatest"?

shorecoll · March 15, 2011 11:29AM

You got it Papi, when the 2nd and 3rd editions of the book comes out and people pull those slabs out of their dad's SDB in 20 years, the labels will be meaningless.

19Lyds · March 15, 2011 11:47AM

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<< Too often, seasoned collectors forget what its like to NOT have a goal in collecting. I can't recall the number of threads posted by folks wondering what they should collect next.

IMO, this offers a goal as well as introduces folks to the various types of Modern US Coins that are out there. I think its a great idea to inject new interest in coin collecting with a reasonable obtainable goal. Collecting is supposed to be about having fun with realistic goals. >>

One can very easily collect the 100 Greatest Modern Coins without having a label on the slab that says so. >>

Exactly. If the coins were not ranked, but grouped as "one of the 100 greatest," then I'd like the idea a whole lot more. >>

Ahhhh. Suppose the 1913 Liberty Nickel might be outta yer league?

ChangeInHistory · March 15, 2011 11:52AM

It comes across as "over-celebratory"

ChrisRx · March 15, 2011 11:58AM

Who cares?

Papi · March 15, 2011 12:02PM

I haven't seen the book; so I'm still shocked. This qualifies as #82; it's microscopic

Yes, I know the discussion is about a label.

But this doesn't qualify as the "Greatest" anything, and could easily be bumped off the list. IMHO

llafoe · March 15, 2011 12:03PM

It's a novelty... I no likey.

sanitarium1inmate · March 15, 2011 12:11PM

<< You got it Papi, when the 2nd and 3rd editions of the book comes out and people pull those slabs out of their dad's SDB in 20 years, the labels will be meaningless. >>

I have to agree here. The whole idea of having a top 100 is ok but it will be ever changing. I guess that is what NGC is hoping for. Buy a slabbed #82 today send back in to have it relabled as #85 tomorrow and you have to pay a fee each time. Sounds like a residual scam to me to get reslabbing fee's for the same coin without having to regrade it. I am not liking it.

RYK · March 15, 2011 12:16PM

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<< You got it Papi, when the 2nd and 3rd editions of the book comes out and people pull those slabs out of their dad's SDB in 20 years, the labels will be meaningless. >>

I have to agree here. The whole idea of having a top 100 is ok but it will be ever changing. I guess that is what NGC is hoping for. Buy a slabbed #82 today send back in to have it relabled as #85 tomorrow and you have to pay a fee each time. Sounds like a residual scam to me to get reslabbing fee's for the same coin without having to regrade it. I am not liking it. >>

I disagree. I just do not think that NGC has thought all of this through. No one in their right mind would have their 1942 P/P nickel (or whatever) reslabbed to indicate that while it was #82 on the list when the first edition of the book came out, it is now #87. I just think that it is silly for the slab to indicate that it is #82 in the first place.

I have nothing against the book; it's worthwhile for those interested. I do not like the slab label idea and hope that PCGS does not follow suit.

19Lyds · March 15, 2011 1:02PM

<< I haven't seen the book; so I'm still shocked. This qualifies as #82; it's microscopic

Yes, I know the discussion is about a label.

But this doesn't qualify as the "Greatest" anything, and could easily be bumped off the list. IMHO >>

All you need is a better strike and it would be more prominent.

Tdec1000 · March 15, 2011 1:09PM

<< Why

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Why not?

lordmarcovan · March 15, 2011 1:12PM

Though I greeted this with a yawn, I'm not against it, by any means. If it's good for NGC and for the folks who collect along those lines, well, then good for everybody.

Not my cuppa tea, but so what. To each his own!

leothelyon · March 15, 2011 2:22PM

It's only a ruse to get more submissions. And it puts a stagnant aura on certain coins while not recognizing others, perhaps more important coins.

Now if they create a list of 250 coins, unranked and let the collectors choose their 100 top coins........possibly for a registry.....

Now that's a terrific idea!

Leo

TwoSides2aCoin · March 15, 2011 10:11PM

I'd like to see Genuine Holders accomodate a highball in a tall glass. I might even take up drinkin', for them.

jsf · March 15, 2011 10:24PM

any regular visitor to these boards knows there are plenty of modern collectors who need their hand held. This is just another step in that direction.

ricko · March 15, 2011 11:40PM

Are we having fun yet?? There must be another hair to split... Well, business is business... and people collect slabs and labels, so, like so many other things discussed here, it will become part of the landscape and we will go on collecting (and flipping, and dealing etc). Cheers, RickO

RWB · March 15, 2011 11:41PM

More clutter.

pf70collector · March 16, 2011 8:13AM

Sorry. Do not like. What if the 100 ranking changes? Are these set in stone?

Dropdaflag · March 16, 2011 8:36AM

The rankings aside, that layout looks a lot like the ancients a local dealer had graded recently. Is this layout gonna find its way onto the label of all US coins eventually?

Broadstruck · March 16, 2011 8:55AM

<< I'm seriously thinking about it but I need to buy the book first! >>

That might be the downfall as it just sounds like marketing to sell a book.

I could see a special insert label for the actual plate coins used in the book ...

Past that my level of excitement is nil.

NitroCruiser · March 16, 2011 9:24AM

<< Ahhhh. Suppose the 1913 Liberty Nickel might be outta yer league? >>

Isn't it from 1964 on?

I think they should do it for the 100 worse coins. It might start some interest in those un-loved orphans like the Eunice Kennedy Shriver commem.

paladin · March 18, 2011 3:18AM

<< Too often, seasoned collectors forget what its like to NOT have a goal in collecting. I can't recall the number of threads posted by folks wondering what they should collect next.

............ >>

How about collecting what you like? And if you don't know what you like, I don't understand how a label will help. I mean, the label just indicates what someone else likes.

LindeDad · March 18, 2011 3:23AM

<< 

<< Too often, seasoned collectors forget what its like to NOT have a goal in collecting. I can't recall the number of threads posted by folks wondering what they should collect next.

............ >>

How about collecting what you like? And if you don't know what you like, I don't understand how a label will help. I mean, the label just indicates what someone else likes.

>>

I won't be on that wagon either.
Edit to add that without even looking at the book I have probably owned 75% of the coins on that list at one time or another too.

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