How would you like to pay fees like this again.
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This is a submission form from when ANACS issued photo certificates.
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Authentication/grading for a $100 coin = $13.10. Using the BLS inflation calculator, $13.10 in 1985 = $34.50 today. Currently, a coin valued at $260 (equal to $100 in 1985) costs $22 for grading/authentication at economy level.
Still want to pay fees like that?
I think in 1983 I paid $500 for a second floppy drive for my Apple ][ computer. That would be real money today! I should have invested in a 1916 D dime.
I would have been just as confused by the forms back then as I am today.
Were there separate fees for authentication and grading? Why not combine them? How many people opted for authentication only?
I exercised some stock options back in 1987 for a home big screen home theater. It was about $7500. If I kept the stock and sold it today that system cost me $80,000! What really makes it bad, I have none of the components. You can never look back unless you can get into a DeLorean, it will only make you depressed!
The only thing that remains the same is change..... You can think back to when you were a kid, and the adults saying how much things had changed.... It is a continuing process. Now, if we could look forward, opportunities abound.
Cheers, RickO
The original ANACS was an authentication service due to the many counterfeit coins in the marketplace. So many ANA members requested that their coins be graded that they added coin grading as an additional service.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
Interesting....
Unless it tarnishes... 😉
@moursund.... Even tarnish is 'change'....Cheers, RickO
I'd love to pay $5.30 for registered postage on a $2000 package again.
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Should have invested in Apple, period. 16 cents a share back in 1983.