I just got this in an email. It looks like the grading service gives us another reason to go elsewhere. Notice how they don’t say anything about not charging for bodybags and/or slabbing “no grade” coins? Time to vote with our wallets.
Effective October 1st PCGS will no longer offer the Regrade with Comment and Crossover with Comment services. We will also no longer provide the PCGS grade on crossovers that do not cross. For further information call PCGS Customer Service at 800-447-8848.
The September 2008 meeting of the Atlantic County Numismatic Society (ACNS) was held on September 3, 2008 at the Linwood library at 7pm and the theme was “Medals of the Olympics.”
Club president Jason O’Grady gave a presentation on how medals are part of the field of Numismatics and when better to discuss them than around the time of the Olympics? Medals were a timely topic for the meeting which took place just after the closing ceremonies of an amazing Summer 2008 Olympics in Being.
Some of the things that we learned included:
You can download the presentation here (1.5MB PDF). Requires Adobe Acrobat reader.
New York silver, gold and platinum all dropped sharply Tuesday, helped by falling crude-oil prices and a rally in the U.S. dollar. The latter was spurred along by furthering concerns over the economic picture in Europe and Asia.
Reports to date indicate Hurricane Gustav did not cause any significant damage to Gulf oil infrastructure. And with that, October oil fell by $5.75, or 5 percent, to close to $109.71 per barrel.
Silver for December fell to $13.15 an ounce, losing 56 cents, or 4.1 percent.
October platinum dropped $86.30, or 5.8 percent, to end at $1,403.50 an ounce.
December gold dropped $24.70, or 3 percent, to close at $810.50 an ounce. Gold hit an intraday low of $795.20 an ounce.
Courtesy: CoinNews.net
