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Hola!

Bryan ( Wabbit ) texted me to let me know that this thread existed. Thanks for the concern! All is good. As Bruce ( TDN) mentioned did take 5 weeks off of my day job to work on the election. I’ve been trying to catch up all my work since. That meant being laser focused and no goofing off. I had to give some stuff up. Well that’s not exactly true. I did buy this skull doing my self lock down period.

I hope to catch up on the forum soon. If not, Happy Holidays to all!

mark

One of 13 seems so much less lustrous than one of 3...

@crazyhounddog said:
Although this safe is rated up to 2000 degrees I have my problems. All of these separate boxes came out in one group, along with my Kimber.

Hi Joe,

First, everyone at PCGS would like to extend our deepest sympathies for the loss of your home and possessions, we along with all of the forum users are glad to have you on the boards and we are thankful you and your family made it out ok.

I grew up in and around Paradise and can't believe how many houses and businesses were lost, including The Honeyrun Bridge that I remember seeing almost every other weekend. My family was stuck in Paradise/Magalia and my sister sent me videos of them barely making it out 20 minutes after the evacuation was called but luckily they made it out and were fortunate enough to have their house in Magalia saved.

I, along with I'm sure many others, was able to witness the caring and thoughtfulness of everyone in Northern California and across the country and world with the #buttestrong and #paradisestrong.

We'd like to work with you as much as we can to get as many of your coins back in holders as possible.

Within the next day or so you will be receiving an email from our team with information on how to get everything to PCGS to have it reviewed and potentially reholdered.

We will do our best to get everything back into PCGS holders but we will need to take a look at everything in its raw form. We won't be able to guarantee every coin will be put back into a PCGS holder with the same grade, or in a PCGS holder at all but we will use the resources available to us to restore and holder as many of your coins as possible at no cost to you.

We understand completely that this will not bring back everything else you have lost but we hope that this will help you get a little closer to feeling like life is back to normal.

Should you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me directly at [email protected]

To be honest, I would dip it and try again.

Don't think I ever showed this before. In back of the safe, so thought I would pull it out and give it some light.
Jim

Seller's pics!

Pop 1 on the report!

AND...a Vamworld link for those of you who are interested in what is going on with this coin!

http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1880-S_VAM-10

@Billylan76 said:
Books are a better way to figure this out. They arent rude. Again, i apologize if ive intruded or upset anyone.

Don't let the curmudgeons get you down. All of us asked "stupid" questions when we were just starting. Some have forgotten that. Do get the books and study. And please keep on posting.

Guys, if we continually turn-off new collectors, do you think there will be much of a hobby in the future? The guy you just bitch-slapped around to feel all superior about yourself could turn into one of the stalwarts of the hobby if you give them a chance. Maybe we should be inviting and patient? If being nice hurts all that much then just ignore the posts.

Call before sending in.

You can reach the PCGS customer service department Monday - Friday 7:00am - 5:00pm Pacific Time.

In the United States call toll free at 800-447-8848. Outside the United States call 949-833-0600.

I started the thread and can't get myself to read all this stuff.

Some coins have to be dipped to make them sale able. Ugly toning does not sell. That is simply a fact. There are a small number pieces that require it for preservation purposes.

If you don’t want to buy dipped coins, that’s okay. Some collectors want only white silver coins. If you collect older coins, other than Morgan Dollars, chances are dipped is your most likely choice by far. You can’t change many of these people’s minds. I tried when I was a dealer.