Comparing Coin Posters (ANA vs. PCGS)
KellenCoin
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The ANA released a "Periodic Table of Numismatics" poster a while back. This is literally a periodic table in which they attemped to find as many numismatic items that fit the elements. PCGS also released a periodic table poster, but this was just US Coins arranged methodically into a table. I own both. I was wondering if any of you own either any of these, and if you own both which is better? I personally believe they are good for different reasons but the ANA one is cooler.
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Comparing Coin Posters (ANA vs. PCGS)
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I'm not seeing images in your post. If there aren't any embedded, you may want to provide links to the images so that folks might compare the posters. After all, not everyone will be familiar with them.
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Are either available for purchase?
Here's a larger one for PCGS, but we really need a TrueView Max size one
A couple of years ago at Long Beach, PCGS was giving them away at their table.
They had both a white and black background. From what I saw, people seemed to prefer the black background.
I was never in the right place at the right time for either...although I understood that you could buy the PCGS.
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I have neither one... My books suffice for my needs.... and although my wife does not complain about this facet of my hobbies, such a decoration might change that
. Do not want to push it...there are already enough guns and gun books... and a shelf of numismatic literature....plus other artifacts of interest which I dabble in.... Cheers, RickO
I don't own either one of them.
The PCGS one has a more professional look, in my opinion.
Did you ever notice on the actual periodic table how the traditional coinage metals line up - copper, silver, gold - shadowed by nickel, palladium, platinum ?
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Cute, colorful, interesting viewing but a meaningless graphic arrangement. Something similar has been used for ipad applications and other toys.
On a table, they only line up due to the Lanthanide series (between #56 and #72) being pulled from the sequence. (What about Iron, lead, tin and zinc? Think about why certain metals became traditional for coinage.)
I own both, but that was not an option. I wonder if PCGS fixed the typo I found on the one I received.
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I could not find the ANA poster.
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CCAC Representative of the General Public
2021 Young Numismatist of the Year
I picked up the PCGS one, bought a cheap frame and display light. It hangs in my study.
Lance.
Thank you KellenCoin. This will be my next project.