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Numismatic News Oct 23 Letters

If anybody subscribes to Numismatic News, and has the October 23 edition, Page 18, "How Can I put Graded Coin Back in Old Holder?"

What do you think of the letter?




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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Read it.
    Poor ol' senile guy. People on the boards here take for granted everyday knowledge about these things.
    I can see others in the "normal" populace actually thinking they can do things like that.

    Sounds like an older ANACS photo grade with the coin in plastic.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment



  • << <i>Read it.
    Poor ol' senile guy. People on the boards here take for granted everyday knowledge about these things.
    I can see others in the "normal" populace actually thinking they can do things like that.

    Sounds like an older ANACS photo grade with the coin in plastic. >>



    The part that strikes me is the first paragraph, that he's been a subscriber for over 25 years.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,857 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>If anybody subscribes to Numismatic News, and has the October 23 edition, Page 18, "How Can I put Graded Coin Back in Old Holder?"

    What do you think of the letter? >>



    I have a few coins that I'd like to put in some first generation black NGC slabs. image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • SteveSteve Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    The part that strikes me is the first paragraph, that he's been a subscriber for over 25 years. >>



    I caught the same comment. If he has been a subscriber for over 25 years you would "think" he knows something about how coin values are determined and used. He probably NEVER tried to sell any coin in his collection.
    Steveimage
  • TexastTexast Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭✭
    Here is the letter for those that do not have access.


    How can I put graded
    coin back in old holder?


    As a subscriber to Numismatic News
    for over 25 years I would like some
    advice from your readers.
    I have two coins graded by a firm years
    ago, 1881-S and 1882-S Morgan dollars,
    both graded MS-65/65 with a photo card
    and description and in a removable capsule.
    I then sent them to another firm to
    be graded again and encased in a sealed
    holder. I would like to sell them but there
    is quite a big difference in the price. The
    1881-S graded MS-63 by the second
    firm and is approximately $45 versus
    $165 graded MS-65/65 by the first company.
    These prices are from the October
    issue of Numismatic News Coin Market
    monthly price list.
    I still have the original photo cards
    and capsule from the first firm. How
    do I overcome this problem, as it looks
    impossible to take them out of the new
    holders?
    Bill Stevens
    Brooklyn, N.Y.
    On BS&T Now: Nothing.
    Fighting the Fight for 11 Years with the big "C" - Never Ever Give Up!
    Member PCGS Open Forum board 2002 - 2006 (closed end of 2006) Current board since 2006 Successful trades with many members, over the past two decades, never a bad deal.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,857 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like he wants advice as to how to crack a coin out of a slab to put the coin into the old holder which has a higher grade under the mistaken idea that the coin will become more valuable in the old holder.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • DaveGDaveG Posts: 3,535
    Sounds to me like just one more piece of evidence that the members of this board (who tend to be pretty sophisticated collectors) are but a small minority of the universe of coin collectors!

    Check out the Southern Gold Society

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