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| Anything To This 1957 $1 Star Note?
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Alpha2814
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United States
1904 Posts |
 Posted 02/23/2025 1:07 pm
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I already know the answer is a mix of "nothing special" and "not in that condition", but just in case... This was pulled from the till at McDonald's back in 1992ish, just found it while decluttering the basement yesterday. The color is uniform, just badly lit from the side here.
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| | Forum: US Paper Money and Banknotes |
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| Ebay Sellers : Are You Experiencing Issues With Ebay Standard Delivery Sytem?
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Alpha2814
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United States
1904 Posts |
Posted 02/18/2025 2:31 pm
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| I'm not a seller, but a buyer. I'd been buying tokens for several years from a local seller (both of us in San Francisco) who switched from padded envelopes to the eBay system a few months ago, to save postage fees (~$4 for padded, ~$1 with eBay). The padded envelopes never had a problem. Shortly after changing to eBay envelopes, two of them got lost in delivery. USPS informed delivery had images and claimed "delivered" but they never arrived. The seller refunded both but was confused by the problem, claiming no issues with any others he'd sent out this way. He suspected misdelivery to the wrong address, but when that has happened before a neighbor always brought it to me directly or put it back in the postal system. I suspect something in the "last mile" and stopped buying from him for this reason; haven't had any problems with any other seller also using eBay envelopes. |
| | Forum: eCommerce | eBay, eCrater, Heritage, Paypal, Auction Houses, etc. |
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| Need To Sign In Without Signing Out.
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Alpha2814
Pillar of the Community
United States
1904 Posts |
Posted 01/27/2025 01:56 am
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| I had this happen to me a couple of months ago (?) and now it's happening to me again in the last couple of days. Doesn't seem to happen every time, but when I get the bar, click it, and I have to log in again. Once logged in, I can go to non-post pages like Tools or Members just fine, but if I go to New Posts (which is my bookmark), it logs me out again. I can reproduce this, and it took me a couple of tries to find a path to be able to comment here while still logged in. I'm using Firefox on MacOS. Edit to add: I hard-refreshed the page in here too, didn't help. Didn't clear my cache though, thought a hard-refresh would be enough. |
| | Forum: Coin Community Support, Suggestions, and Feedback |
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| Can I Combine Service Tiers In One ANACS Submission?
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Alpha2814
Pillar of the Community
United States
1904 Posts |
Posted 01/25/2025 1:30 pm
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I'm considering/prepping a batch for submission to ANACS but it would involve multiple tiers. All are non-US coins, but one is valued over $500 (so would be standard), five others would be economy, and one would be a reholder.
I'm betting I would need to fill out three forms for their respective tiers because the form has only one line for "grading fee per coin", but there's also the line for return shipping (which is what I want to save by combining these in one submission).
Is this something I can do, one form per tier with only one return shipping charge, or should I just bite the bullet and send each separately? |
| | Forum: Third Party Coin Grading (TPG): PCGS, NGC, ANACS, ICG, ETC. |
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| 2003 One Dollar Bill Cutting Error
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Alpha2814
Pillar of the Community
United States
1904 Posts |
Posted 01/19/2025 10:34 pm
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How can a note get cut like that? I can't wrap my head around this one.
There's a fold on the upper-left corner of the large/intact note -- from where the cut-off note starts (directly above the "I" in America), southeast to the right edge about level with the top of the "1" oval. I printed a copy of the OP image, cut it out, and folded it along this line. The diagonal edge of the cut-off note lines up pretty well with the top edge of the intact note. So I'm guessing the sheet was folded along this line before being cut. |
| | Forum: US Paper Money and Banknotes |
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| Direct-Fit Capsule For 2oz/50mm Round?
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Alpha2814
Pillar of the Community
United States
1904 Posts |
Posted 01/04/2025 2:51 pm
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I got this 2oz silver round last month, already in this capsule. A few days ago, I got another very similar round in a vinyl flip, but I can't find any other capsules like this one. This is a direct-fit, i.e. there's no foam ring -- I don't want a ring because I don't like how they look and I don't trust that they won't damage or tone the metal. The round is 50mm in diameter; the capsule is 66mm.
It's not an air-tite, at least it doesn't match any of the sizes I can find online. The closest air-tite looks like Y50 but that has a foam ring. I see a few capsules that might work but they don't have the added diameter that this one has. If I can duplicate this capsule, I'd have a matched pair. If I can't, I might consider changing this one out so I'd still have a matched pair.
Any leads for how to find a match for this one, or another ring-less capsule that would direct-fit these rounds?
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| | Forum: Supplies, Books, Reference, Software, etc |
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| How Far Have You Gone?
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Alpha2814
Pillar of the Community
United States
1904 Posts |
Posted 01/03/2025 9:32 pm
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| San Francisco to San Jose, about an hour each way, only once. I've been to a few shows closer to SFO airport (~15 minutes) but those have been getting smaller -- the last one was barely bigger than my living room and had no tables of interest. I'd like to try again but it's hard to get me out of the house and I don't want to waste another trip. |
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| What Are Your 2025 Numismatic Collecting Goals?
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Alpha2814
Pillar of the Community
United States
1904 Posts |
Posted 12/24/2024 12:55 am
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My main focus is on three sets to "complete", while I'm still gainfully employed:
- 1/4 oz China gold pandas -- still need 3 more. I have the key and the three I'm missing shouldn't be that hard to find, except for the "reasonable price" part. They're all on eBay so I /could/ get them, but not for what they're asking.
- 1876 twenty cents -- just to finish the circulated set.
- 1911-D quarter eagle -- a matter of affordability and seeing enough of the "D" to count. I may never be able to get this. It would give me a complete set of the series; without it, I just have a date set with a bonus semi-key.
Anything aside from this is gravy. |
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