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I just picked up this copper 1 Franc Essai piece from a member on the PCGS forums. It arrived today and blew my socks off! Just the look I adore in copper. -Brandon

I have just got round to finishing storing my coins and making records of them, so have been very busy. I thought I would post a couple of pics of some of them. the first is the latest 1887 Half Crown. I like this one, but would like your opinions on this please.

Just found this http://www.ncscoin.com/news/enews/2010/April/article1.asp

I know I'm coming into this late in the day. It's not something that really affects me. However I do find the whole thing very odd. Surely, from a marketing point, one of the selling points of a CGS (or NGC, PCGS etc..) entombment is that, should you decide to sell your coin, potential buyers can then find it on the grading service's database, confirm it's the same coin (and have the possibility of inspecting photographs of it) before committing their cash? Now that is surely impractical, unless you're a dealer. For a casual occasional buyer, paying £50 to validate a coin seems daft. To me, what LCGS seem to have done is made their service much less attractive an option. If you want a database of coins, you'd surely be better off photographing them yourself. Protection? The afore-mentioned Quadrum capsules sound ideal. Certification and grading? NGC or PCGS are better known and grade to an internationally understood scale. Even if their current customers are the loyalest of the loyal, I just don't get how CGS think this is going to be viable.

Acquired yesterday, seller's pics.