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[Absurdum58] can’t wait!!

[ToddPollock] thank you sir,this all new to me,i just now wamted to sell some coins i had a couple of

[Shomethegreen] There is also a buy/sell group [group:USbuyselltrade]

[FriendlyEagle7] My bad. I always get them confused. You are right.

[FriendlyEagle7] I've heard this guy Daniel runs his forum like the gestapo. He locks threads, deletes opinions he doesn't like and bans members that disagree with him.

[MONKEYROCKET] First thread I saw after going onto his forum. I have zero tolerance for personal attacks, aka ad hominem, in this community. I know we all make mistakes and let emotions get the best of us, I've been guilty myself. However, there has to be a time when humanity grows up online and stops the key board warrior attacks on each other. I know it's not going to continue here, violators will be banned no matter how long they've been here or how helpful they've been here.

[MONKEYROCKET] I appreciate the effort Daniel puts in to educating people about coins and avoiding scammers. His video on doubled dies vs machine doubling is the best for showing those new to collecting. Forum moderation is one of those jobs most people take for granted, and no two people fully agree on. Its his site though, so he's free to run it as he pleases, and I'm not a very active forum member but I do check in a few times a week and I've never noticed anything I'd fault him for. Lots of coin communities are overrun with junk posts where there's no useful information, or worse, wrong info seemingly being validated by commenters/likers/upvotes (like on reddit where the truth gets downvoted). I'm more frustrated with those community mods, because its not like they created reddit, but they are quick to remove posts of my videos simply because I'm linking to my youtube channel which they claim is "self promotion" (even though my channel isn't monetized). Its absurd since anyone can DM anyone on reddit so implicitly every post of a coin is an advertisement to sell it, anyone interested can just DM the poster. The irony of coins being the most important invention enabling free commerce and thus bettering the human condition is completely lost on them. Daniels most recent vid talks about how the elderly are targeted by aggressive telemarketers and mail ads selling them gold plated junk and he likens it to organizing poker games in retirement homes and taking advantage of alzheimers patients and I completely agree.

[pcgsregistrycollector] I've also seen some certifiably insane, deeply personal discussions on the NGC boards that I couldn't believe weren't being removed by mods.

[MONKEYROCKET] Can't speak to the Cherrypicker's Guide (6th edition published 2024), but PCGS clearly designates the variety.

[CoinWeek] I checked a couple of the other population reports. ANACS and NGC also designate this variety.

[MONKEYROCKET] isn't it annoying how when looking at pop reports and price guides on TPGs they don't list every variety they've ever attributed? Thats the one thing I like about the ANACs website. Also on PCGS if you click those the next/previous on a coin page sometimes you get pages that I can't find listed elsewhere, like this peace dollar.

[CoinWeek] I'm wondering what it would take to be published in the Cherry Picker's Guide? Or what the criteria is?

[MONKEYROCKET] thats the story with most coin discoveries though. I think artists whose art is mass produced inevitably make lots of special versions of things, some more obvious than others, and there are probably a crazy number of unauthorized branch mint proofs and specimen strikes and off metal strikes out there waiting to be found. Coins and currency also has a long history of being used by spies and diplomats to send secret messages or prove their affiliation with a government, which could explain such unique oddities. Lots of leaders over the centuries collected and exchanging gifts when delegations meet is a practice as old as humanity. Its easy to imagine for example inheriting a collection that isn't well documented and finding something like a gilt pattern coin (struck on copper and then plated gold to match the denomination) and the beneficiary, having no knowledge of numismatics, but can clearly feel the difference in weight because its copper not gold, just assumes their dead relative had been the victim of a scam not the owner of such an extreme rarity.