My ancient & medieval NGC submissions made at 2023 FUN are already imaged!

lordmarcovan · January 18, 2023 3:02AM

No grades yet, and this is only a portion of the stuff I submitted to NGC and PCGS at the show, but I'm tickled to be seeing the images so relatively soon, and think they look good.

This submission includes the first Athenian Owl tetradrachm I have owned in my 46 years of collecting. I recently got it, the lifetime Alexander the Great drachm (xxx-003 below), the Constantine the Great AE3 (xxx-004), and the Tiberius Tribute penny (xxx-006), at $750 for all four pieces, which I thought was a hard deal to pass up! At that price, I felt like I was buying the Owl at a fair price and getting the other three for free! Furthermore, the Owl, the Constantine, and the Alexander were all ex-NGC pieces, which came with the old slab inserts. (The previous owner, a more traditionalist collector, had cracked them out of the plastic.) I'm resubmitting them raw, so there's no guarantee they'll receive the same grades this time around, but they should do OK.

Athenian Owl tetradrachm. Ex-NGC AU.

Aspendos stater, ex-Comptoir de Monnaies. They graded it Choice AU. We'll see what NGC says.

Alexander the Great drachm, lifetime issue. Ex-NGC VF. Was included with the Owl tetradrachm, above.

Constantine the Great AE3. Ex-NGC Ch AU. Was included with the Owl tetradrachm, above.

Geta denarius. Just something I found in one of my boxes, which I had forgotten I even owned.

Tiberius "Tribute Penny". Was included with the Owl tetradrachm, above.

Year 2 Jewish War prutah. A recent, relatively inexpensive pickup at the show. My first Judaean, not counting some low-end Widow's Mites.

Caria, Rhodes drachm. I like the type.

Neapolis hemidrachm. My first gorgon type. A tiny little thing.

L. Memmius Roman Republican denarius. This one had to go in on its own submission, because of the pedigree (ex-John Quincy Adams collection). I'm supposedly a descendant of JQA and have wanted a coin with his pedigree for a long time.

1495 Frankfurt goldgulden. Only my second pre-1500 dated coin (i.e., Levinson-listed). And my first dated goldgulden. I love the funky late-medieval numerals there, not to mention the rest of it. It too had to go in under its own submission, since it's under a different tier (non-ancient, World Gold). (UPDATE: graded AU58.)

JohnnyCache · January 18, 2023 1:46PM

Rob, you are correct, the images look great!

worldcoinguy · January 18, 2023 2:32PM

Great variety in that submission. The Athenian Owl is outstanding. The pre-1500 date pieces are quite intriguing - that Frankfurt goldgulden has a nice look to it.

SimonW · January 18, 2023 3:34PM

Dude! I just paid $528 for a owl, yours is much nicer! You didn’t get a great deal, you got a crazy great deal!!!

This is XF

Bob13 · January 18, 2023 9:32PM

Wow - those pictures are much improved compared to prior NGC efforts.

That's a neat group. I also like the medieval gold.

Thanks for sharing.

Exbrit · January 19, 2023 5:07AM

Very good looking photos. NGC capture them nicely.

7Jaguars · January 19, 2023 5:29AM

Shockingly good pictures as theirs have previously been abysmal. I like the legend on the reverse of the Constantine; also, looks like some die adjustment with ??filemarks around the lips and philtrum on the Athenian. The Neapolis is perhaps my favourite.

nwcoast · January 19, 2023 10:03AM

Gorgeous coins, photos and WHAT A DEAL!
I love them! Especially the Owl tetradrachm- which is nicer than my recent aquisition as well!
Congratulations!

jt88 · January 19, 2023 1:07PM

Very nice photos. Do you have to pay extra to get such nice photos?

DennisH · January 20, 2023 7:28AM

CONGRATS on super-fast service at NGC. I am seriously envious. My single coin submission at PCGS is in the imaging stage too, where it's been for about two weeks. But, of course, it's been almost five months that PCGS has had my order.

lordmarcovan · January 20, 2023 9:25AM

@jt88 said:
Very nice photos. Do you have to pay extra to get such nice photos?

Yes.

And given my past experience, one need not waste their time and money on NGC's cheaper "Internet Imaged" photo option, which now costs $5/coin. The resulting images are trash- or at least were, back when I used it, when it cost $3/coin. It wasn't even worth that much. I could have done better with my 1990s flatbed scanner.

This is the slightly more expensive "Photovision" option, which costs $8/coin, though unlike the cheaper option, it is actually worth the added expense, in my opinion.