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we are selling less so we are raising prices?

Inflation can be approached from two sides...rise in prices like this announcement, and shrinkflation, where you pay the same price but get a smaller package...so when do you think the mint will reduce an ounce coin to 9/10ths of an ounce? Same circumference but thinner. You've seen quart soda reduced to a liter, half gallon ice cream reduced to 1.5 quarts, a pound of graham crackers reduced to 15 ounces, I just hope it doesn't reach our coinage....it's bad enough today's dollar is only worth yesterday's quarter.

Slowly and surely the Mint is curing me of the desire to order anything from them.

$28 for four innovation dollars with an intrinsic vale of $.28. Great deal.

Even if you could prove Die 1 and Die 2 are different states for the same die,
it is irrelevant, because the 2 Feather is all about the die state (not the die).

Similarly, the Morgan $1 1888-O "Scarface" has early die states where the die crack does not reach the face.
They don't have much value, compared to those where the crack is in the face.

I agree with @messydesk that the best overall solution would involve a way to reclassify PCGS CoinFacts photos (and ideally populations) when PCGS has followed the series experts and changed the way some dies or die states have been attributed.

I think a good way to implement this would be:
1. For an old PCGS CoinNum which has changed attribution rules, create 2 new CoinNums
2. When identifying photos are available, reclassify existing coins with the old CoinNum into the new CoinNums
3. Mark the old CoinNum as "discontinued", i.e. to be deleted in the future and no longer used for new slabs
4. Only display the new CoinNums by default on CoinFacts

@ScarsdaleCoin said:

@NJCoin said:
Hype it and they will come? 🤣

"Largest coin show in America"? 🤣

How did that work out the last time?

In any event, I hope no one from FUN, the ANA, Whitman, etc. stumbles onto this thread.

All good shows that you mentioned, thanks for your input, I take everyone's comments to heart...and I hope you come and enjoy and see what we do.... There is no negative energy for #2025

If you truly took everyone’s comments to heart you would have edited your thread title to something that was realistic.

@messydesk said:
Another issue is that neither PCGS nor CPG call the shots as far as what specialist collector groups want. They only react to it. When they react incorrectly, the hobby provides feedback, sometimes more vocal than others. The next chance they have to adapt to this feedback is the next time they see one of the coins in question, but they can't unscramble the egg of having published imperfect or wrong information either on a slab or in a book, thus creating a mess like this one, leaving us wondering if they changed the rules or simply screwed up.

Based on my experiences they changed the rules 2-3 years back. There are numerous attributed 2 Feather varieties in PCGS plastic with way more of the third feather remaining than the OP’s coin. I wish they would simply tell us that and save us money and their time rejecting them. I don’t understand why they changed their policies when clearly many examples show remnants. All you need to do is check CoinFacts.

@yspsales said:
Hope it booms.

Why the coin show haters?

Be positive

Because they over promised and under delivered in 2023, and now @ScarsdaleCoin is touting it as the "Largest & Most Exciting Coin Show in America!" That's why.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." That's why.

We all only get one chance to make a first impression, and they have already made theirs. Now it's time to under promise and over deliver, rather than flat out stating that they are already "larger and more exciting" than around a half dozen other shows that are already well established, and far superior in every way.

Starting a thread in a very knowledgeable coin forum entitled "Get Ready for the Largest & Most Exciting Coin Show in America!" is an inauspicious start on the road to redemption after what people experienced at IMEX 2023.

And an insult to the intelligence of anyone who has ever attended one of the better shows in the country, and also either attended or read reports about IMEX 2023. Which is why there was no IMEX 2024, ahead of IMEX 2025, "the Largest & Most Exciting Coin Show in America!" That's why.

We all "hope it booms." But, after the last time, most of us know better, and don't appreciate being spoken to as if we have the memory of a fruit fly, and no actual awareness of anything happening in the world of numismatics.

A headline like the one on the top of this thread belongs in a general print publication, right next to an ad for obsolete 1921 Morgan Dollars in Fine or better condition for the low, low price of only $99 each, with a strict order limit of 20 per customer, rather than in this forum. That's why.