TRUE Confessions!

quarterjack

Please forgive me, i'm admitting i actually bid on and won a ACG graded coin in auction about a year ago. It was a 1950 Prf. 67 Franklin, i bid 64 money and it crossed to a Pcgs Prf.64.
Please don't flog me over this i just had to tell someone i was a closet ACG buyer!
Do you think i need to seek professional counseling or seek out a rehab group?
Any advice would be appriciated.

Dave

FC57Coins

You mean you bought the coin and not the slab??

Whatta concept!

MastaHanky

Nah.

I bought a 27-D Lincoln in an ACG 63RD slab.

Crossed it to a PCGS 64RD slab.

There are still deals out there.

lordmarcovan

I bid EF40 money on an ACG EF45 1873 Arrows half on eBay about two years ago, because I knew it was an easy AU55.

And I was right.

AU details. But ANACS net-graded it to EF40 for cleaning and tooling I hadn't noticed in the auction picture, as I recall.

So I paid full EF40 price for a net EF40 coin. Think I got EF40 money when resale time came around? Ha.

Moral of the story (at least as I interpret it): it isn't the grade you have to worry about, so much as the other hidden bugaboos.

I'm sure there are a few nice coins that were unfortunately entombed in ACG holders. I just don't trust myself enough to spot 'em from a picture, now. That will most likely remain my one-and-only ACG purchase for all time.

gmarguli

If you can find OLD ACG slabs out there, then can be deals to be found.

LucyBop

Go to your room till Lucy figures out the proper punishment!

quarterjack

Lucy, PLEASE don't make me go to my room. That's where the empty ACG slab is stored, I"M SCARED!

Dave

Fairlaneman

Your Punishment is the return of the AU58 Two Cent Piece. ASAP !!!

Shame on You.

Ken

Bear

The proscribed punishment for such an act

is 40 lashes with a wet noodle, in front of the

ships company. And may PCGS have mercy on

his soul. Bear

MrKelso

<< <i> Please forgive me, i'm admitting i actually bid on and won a ACG graded coin in auction about a year ago. >>



Well since this is confession time then I to While under the influence of a few martunies placed a bid on a nice ACG slobbed Morgan but i lost
the auction and have since mended my ways. However i am still Drinking.

Bear

Gee, this is starting to sound like a confessional booth.
6" Our Fathers" and 3 "Hail Mary's" for a penence.

Clankeye

Okay, I'll confess. In "the old days" early 90's. A dealer let me go through a whole box of ACG commems. They were all in those old long holders of theirs. Out of that I found a Long Island graded 64 which went 65 at PCGS, and a Vancouver in 64 which went PCGS 64. There was another one, too. But, I don't remember what it was anymore. Those were picked out of a box with probably over fifty coins in it. All ACG coins, and all of them pretty much looked like heck. But the coins I took were deeply toned, and maybe that threw ACG off. The Long Island was black and orange, very cool. A Halloween coin if ever there was one.

MrKelso

For Shame

ccrdragon

Confession times continued - I bought a 1902 Indian Cent in an ACG MS65-RD holder about a year ago to see if all of the hype about ACG was true. Only paid about $40 bucks for it so I figured I wouldn't lose much if it dropped a couple of points. Got the coin and it was at best a 64RB with a large ding in the indian's cheek (that you couldn't see in the photo). I haven't so much as looked at an ACG coin since.