Bone To Pick With A TPG

Theres pluses and minuses for all at once or breaking it up.

How much would you say theyre all worth? I use express mail so if it was under the 5k insurance limit I would send all at once, if it went over I would break it up and keep both packages under the limit and insured

The 5k insurance limit is just for express mail, I believe registered mail lets you insure up to 15 or 20k for a single package. Regardless of how you ship if it gets significantly over the limit I would always break it up into another package.

I certainly dont think it would hurt to list them out and get more opinions.

Without seeing anything I would say to have the key dates graded, the authentication alone will bring back a better price then raw would. Trade dollars and Twenty Cent almost always benefit from being slabbed as well and helps prevent people from accusing you of selling fakes.

You seem to have a good handle on what would do better, the gold would be the one thing youve mentioned I would think twice about. With the price of gold now a lot of gold sells like its bullion as their numismatic premiums have eroded and without the numismatic premium they dont seem to benefit from being graded in a lot of cases unless they would grade on the high end of their ranges.

Insurance limit for Registered mail is $25K.

They done a very good job on the grading though. I would have gave that buffalo the same grade.

It is quite unfortunate that you did not get the attribution you wanted. If you don't consider the fairly common 38-D varieties (which I personally dislike), the 14/3 is the 4th most significant error in the series. Important only after the 3-legger, 18/7-D, and 16DDO. I can't tell from the pics if it is 14/3 or not, but I'm sure you're correct and I am surprised they wouldn't attribute that one.

I do, however, completely agree with their grade and am pretty happy to see they got this one right as I've seen many circulated buffalos that NGC overgraded. I've seen an F-15 with no horn. I've also seen another F-12 with a 2-digit date.

This coin has a full, but somewhat weak date. LIBERTY is separated from the rim, but not well. I know the 13-15 buffalos had LIBERTY struck much worse than all later pieces, but this piece also has wear. You have 1/2-2/3 horn, though that too is a bit weak. It's pretty much a textbook fine IMO. I wouldn't get too upset over an F-15, but I'd never consider this piece a VF-20.

I recently sent what I thought was a 1942/1 D dime to ANACS for certification after three different dealers at a coin show told that I should. It came back as a regular 1942 D. I can live with that, but in all honesty I see them on ebay and other sites all the time that do not look any better than mine. I know there is a lot of subjectivity that goes into it, but I feel like I got yhe short end of it on that one.

I completely agree with the poster. What the heck?! I would call them back and see if you can talk to someone different; that variety seems too significant to exclude from noting. Also, you might want to post on the Ask NGC forum and see if you get any responses.

I just worked with NGC on a coin and they were very helpful, so I'm a bit surprised by this issue.