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  1. I recently bought a coronet type gold coin which came in a gold metal container with a likeness of the reverse eagle grasping arrows. It is the exact eagle that is on the coronet type gold coin that is on the top of this container. It is red velvet lined and the top is hinged.  It is my guess that this is an original mint container but I have never seen one from 1893. Does anyone have any knowledge of these containers and their worth?

     

     

    Would it happen to look like this ?

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  2. I gotta ask a question - how in the world have I missed this ? I mean, according to Mike's welcome post it's been here since August :ninja:

     

    The only reason I found it now is because I read about it this month's Numismatist and said to myself - Huh - the NOW forum ?? On CoinPeople ??

     

    Well anyway - I found it, better late than never I guess ;)

  3. I know that!!!!!  But why?  Is it just taken for granted that all Franklin Proofs are FBL?  Or is it taken for granted that all Franklin Proofs are NOT  FBL??

    Jerry

     

     

    No - it's not taken for granted for them to be FBL or not. The reason the designation is not used is because they are Proof coins. And such designations are just not used for Proof coins - ANY Proof coins.

  4. Damn, it blew me away, those "graders" handeling those coins w/o gloves.

    Dave say's PCGS is the #1 TPG, I don't think that will be true long!

     

     

    Will probably surprise more then to learn that none of the TPG graders wear gloves when grading coins.

  5. Interesting! Thanks for the link Stujoe.

     

    What it did not answer for me was how they determine the grades for world coins. There is no way they have people there that can know all the details of world coinage to know what the standard is to grade against, what strikes are naturally low relief, etc.

     

     

    You're right they don't - they send the coins out to be graded by others.

  6. Probably PCGS and NGC did not want to touch it with a ten foot sonic welder.  It does not have the glamour of the 33 Gaudens and may still be confiscated by the SS.  I guess they thought it would have more downside than upside potential and with the Ohio Coin Fund scam still fresh in the mind of the public this would be an instance of "bad press".

     

    NGC and PCGS both have stated plainly that they would be more than happy to certify these coins or any others of questionable legality.

  7. For many years I used to consider modern as post '64. That's about the time that most of the world quit using silver in their coins. So it seemed a logical point in time to me.

     

    But in the past few years as my collecting switched to world coinage I began to have a different outlook. I began to consider coinage since its inception 2500 + or - years ago. Given that - there are 3 basic periods. Ancient - Medieval & Modern - with Modern being post 1500. Strangely enough this is how most European numismatists view it as well.

     

    But as with anything else, the perception of time changes with its passing. For example, in 1500 the coinage of the time WAS modern. But to many today 500 years seems an almost unimaginable length of time. But in the scheme of things as a whole in regard to coinage - it's only 20% of the elapsed time.

     

    So it all depends on how you wish to look at it. Would you call the lightbulb or the telephone a modern invention ? How about nuclear physics or the airplane ? They all seem pretty modern to me. But they all happened before or near the turn of the century - the last century.

     

    I think perhaps the reason that Europeans choose 1500 as a dividing time line is because it does present a new time in the world. One that co-incides with the discovery of the New World. For after that - everything changed.

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