Don't leave your slabs in a hot car!!!

MadMarty

I had 2 slabs I left in the car over the weekend. It got very warm in there. Look what happend to the slab. It is also fatter now.

KlectorKid

It might be pretty hard to crack out if the plastic melted around the nickel

dddangerousdan

Marty just be glad it is not that 81-s pr70 sba you have for sale

DAN

coinguy1

MadMarty - I have another piece of advice: Don't hide your coins inside your outdoor barbecuer!

Several years ago, when I was still a grader at NGC I received a call from someone wanting to get his coins reholdered. He claimed that he had kept them hidden in his barbecuer and that his girlfriend (or wife, I can't remember which) had gotten angry at him and had lit the barbecuer.

I had heard some tall tales before but this was among the most incredible and I was skeptical, to say the least. Lo and behold, we received the coins in the mail, the holders were discolored, badly warped (obviously from exposure to high heat) and smelled of smoke. I believe the guy had been teling the truth!

Pushkin

Is that iridescent purple toning I see on your coin? Excuse me, got to go put some slabs into the car trunk.

shylock

This reminds me of my fear of sending coins for grading -- especially copper -- during the heart of the summer. You never know how long they'll sit in a simmering hot truck, especially if you're shipping cross country.

MadMarty

Actually, that's why I sent those two to PCGS to see if they would slab the toned coins. They did, and I left the package in the car while I went on vacation. They are both very nice blue nickels, and both PR67s.. I was really surprised that the ring split

Petescorner

Mark,

Maybe he was trying to AT them through the holder!

-Dan

Rob0126

That is true shylock, Fed-X and especially UPS, their trucks aren't AC'd, and those boxes get quite hot.

On a sidenote, I don't think I could be a UPS man, sweating waterfalls every day, while driving. My temperment isn't very good when Im boiling in my own sweat, while driving.

Im ok, if Im in a hot warehouse, slinging furniture(my job) while dripping a few puttles.

Ah, the wonders of Gatorade!!!

Hey, has anyone ever had to lift a sleeper sofa over their head?

Robert

MadMarty

It was kinda hard to get the sulpher into the holder!!

gemseeker

I hope the plastic on the holder didn't fuse onto the coin.

osirisMMII

Geez Marty! What kind of hot rod do ya drive? I mean I've heard of things gettin' hot in the back seat but.........

RGL

Nice purple coin ... in this case, does AT stand for automatic transmission or artificial toning?

dragon

Trade in your car for a nice 2003 Harley Fatboy and you won't have to worry about that happening again.

Dragon

VonZipper

Coinguy1

I like my slabs medium rare, thank you.

coinguy1

Hi Dan,

Actually, from what I remember, the coins weren't even toned. Maybe he had an inferior brand of charcoal.

MadMarty

Next experiment, pop them in the oven at 400 degrees for an hour or two...

goyankeez

What about a cold car. Does excessive cold do something to the slab.

Next time I buy slabbed coins through the mail, I'll have to look at the five day weather forecast.

Cam40

I had transported some odd proof sets on a real hot day.I was thinking I hope condensation doesnt form in the sets and they haze over or something.That was a year or so ago.
A couple weeks ago I looked at those sets again.They all look normal except the quarter in the 1990 set.
I think its starting to look great.It has developed a smooth blending of a dark reddish/brown tone(40%),
to a wonderful DCAM white coin(60%).I,m not sure a scan would show the true colors,but I,ll get some shots of it soon enough.It may turn out to be a monster tone in another 20 yrs,if what I hear is true of this
toneing evolution.Left along its going to develope color in different ways as the years go by.

Catch22

I can picture several members rotating their coins on their dashboards as we speak. Thermometers and spiral log books with little annotations like...."not quite monster, but getting better....roll windows up next attempt....."

mnmcoin

Mental note to self...

Addition to things not to put into car and left in hot sun:

1) 8 Track tapes
2) Photographs
3) Sillyputty
4) Cassette tapes
5) Coin Slabs

Great...one more thing to have to remember.

mo <><

Cam40

hehe.Catch.I can see em too.Those slabs are so hot you gotta use a spatula and oven mitts.
Might as well put a Chef hat on em while we,re at it.lol

Really, cooking a slabbed coin will likely get you a damaged coin,if the plastic melts to the coin and cracking it out is done.If the coin tones,does that mean the ring isn`t inert,and some chemical reaction happens
with the metal and plastic ring holding it when long term heat is applied?
Thats a PCGS slab with the rubber ring?Does NGC and others use this same rubber ring?

Petescorner

My father-in-law and I argue about BBQing all the time. I am strickly a charcoal guy, while he only uses propane. (I swear you can taste the gas on the food.) But I never thought about which would be better for coins in slabs. I'm still thinking charcoal, but maybe with some mesquite chips thrown in. That would give the slabs a nice aroma to go with the new smokey color. If I went gas, then maybe I'd wrap the slabs in aluminum foil with a pat of butter inside. Of course, you could always boil them first to get them more tender.

-Dan <--probably going to lunch early today

MadMarty

The strange thing is that the rings split and expanded. Now I have 2 slabs that should have a SR (split ring) designation!!!