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Has anyone received a coin back in a holder without prongs lately?

1TwoBits1TwoBits Posts: 464 ✭✭✭✭

I'm not sure if I'm more bummed about not being able to see the edge design than excited I have some new unique hybrid holder. Did non-pronged holders come back without my realizing it?

1TwoBits

Searching for bust quarters.....counterstamps, errors, and AU-MS varieties, please let me know if you can help.

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  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pictures?

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,082 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ASE are so large there’s no room for prongs

    Is it an ASE?

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  • Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here an ngc w prongs and our host w/o prongs

    Interesting didn’t notice now I’ll have to check everything 😊

    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

  • 1TwoBits1TwoBits Posts: 464 ✭✭✭✭

    Not an ASE @MsMorrisine , it's a bust dollar, so it's close. I had sent it in raw, and it came back in a pronged holder. It had to go back for a mechanical error, but came back in a non-pronged holder. That had me a little puzzled, making me wonder if others were receiving non-pronged holders as well.

    1TwoBits

    Searching for bust quarters.....counterstamps, errors, and AU-MS varieties, please let me know if you can help.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,082 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would have thought they would be out of those in that size. Odd

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I hate prongs.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    To prong or not to prong... that is the question.... :D No idea on your question... but it brought Shakespeare to mind. Cheers, RickO

  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,560 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've seen Bust Dollars in the solid gasket on the new holders. I think it looks nice although they have interesting edges...

  • jackpine20jackpine20 Posts: 144 ✭✭✭✭

    Sometime in 2019, I spotted a PCGS quarterly special, featuring a Morgan dollar and a solid gasket. I love the simplicity of the solid gasket, especially on larger coins. So, I sent in my Draped Bust dollar for re-holder in December 2019 ... with my request for the solid gasket written on the submission form. It came back with the solid gasket. I couldn't be more pleased.

    Matt Snebold

  • 1TwoBits1TwoBits Posts: 464 ✭✭✭✭

    The pronged holder is this one, which looks to be thin gasket. It doesn't leave much room to view the edge like the other pronged gaskets do on smaller coins, but you can see more of the coin and some of the edge. It looks like hard plastic to me.

    This is the non-pronged holder which must have a solid gasket in there, though you don't really see it until its cracked out.

    @asheland , is the second one what you've seen for bust dollars and new holders? Have you seen them in this pronged holder too? I wonder why it went from the first to the second. I'm waiting to hear back from customer service on the anomaly.

    @Tibor , here are some pic's.

    1TwoBits

    Searching for bust quarters.....counterstamps, errors, and AU-MS varieties, please let me know if you can help.
  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1TwoBits Thanks for the pics. That has got to be one of the
    more Bust dollars I've ever seen.

  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Due to Covid, there's been a worldwide prong shortage. Apparently PCGS didn't want to introduce delays.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1TwoBits said:
    The pronged holder is this one, which looks to be thin gasket. It doesn't leave much room to view the edge like the other pronged gaskets do on smaller coins, but you can see more of the coin and some of the edge. It looks like hard plastic to me.

    This is the non-pronged holder which must have a solid gasket in there, though you don't really see it until its cracked out.

    @asheland , is the second one what you've seen for bust dollars and new holders? Have you seen them in this pronged holder too? I wonder why it went from the first to the second. I'm waiting to hear back from customer service on the anomaly.

    @Tibor , here are some pic's.

    1TwoBits

    The second one looks exactly like what I’ve seen.

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