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Trying to learn a new camera, a new posting site, a new "photo bucket" a new, well, everything 
If it shows up, it's a 1910 German mark I just got off ebay....
If it shows up, it's a 1910 German mark I just got off ebay....
No,no- the kids and the cat are all right honey.
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.
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And thanks for entering me in your give away
World Collection
British Collection
German States Collection
This is an interesting little toner if I can get it to come up.
I bought it about 25 years ago from a company called World Coin Ltd in Maitland Florida.
The company was established by David Hall, founder of PCGS. Hall, ever the opportunist,
saw a potential for 3rd party grading and encapsulating then, much as ANACS was doing
the time and ICCS is doing now-in a Kointain sealed inside a flip.
He was buying rolls of coins from all over the world, grading and encapsulating the best
and selling them to club members of which I was one for awhile. I bought perhaps
8 or 9, all graded MS65-no higher grades were being assigned then-and all for about
$3 to $10 a coin.
Some of the people he had working for him then, including one of my favorites,
are now working at PCGS at various posts.
To ilustrate how grading standards have evolved (or something
coin graded MS 65 by David's company in the 80's to PCGS, hoping, and really expecting
at least MS65 more likely MS 66. Well you know what happened. The coin is in a PCGS
slab now as an MS 64.
So now I'm thinking about sending the original flip and PCGS slab to David and one of
my favorite people there and asking for the 5 bucks I paid for it back
This one is a French 5 Centimes-also graded MS 65 by WCL-holder says $5.
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.
"The Sower", a sweet little 50 centimes French coin; dated 1918.
This was another $5 WCL coin.
I've still got a long way to go in photography so I'd appreciate any negative and/or constructive
comments on it.
In this case I simply wasn't able to get enough light on it so it was underexposed. As far as "filling the screen"
goes, the little gem filled, maybe, 1/5 of it. I'll be glad when I get the macro lens I ordered and some better
lighting...
http://i698.photobucket.com/albums/vv342/classport/DSC_0019.jpg
http://i698.photobucket.com/albums/vv342/classport/DSC_0018.jpg
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
A 1932 Canada cent I just picked up on Ebay. Seller says it's "gem" but*cough* when pigs fly.
Still....about 12 bucks if I remember correctly..
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.
I'm trying another; a 1949 Canada Dollar that, incredibly, got a PL 66 grade from PCGS. I have another; a PL 67, that isn't as nice or
mark free as this one.
I have to get some goose necked lamps as Mark suggested in his excellent piece on coin photography.
The UTT lamps I'm using don't allow me the flexibility of angles on the lighting. As result one side of the coin was well lit and
the other was in shadow. In adjusting to bring the shadow side UP, the other is too bright.
It ain't easy.....not for me anyway
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.