Received New Dime. Should I Crack this one ?

Fairlaneman

Opps it already was compliments of the Postal Service. This picture is going to look Fantastic in my 2nd Set. Cheap coin so this was no biggee.

Ken

fcloud

Ken,

Nice photo. It is always easier when the USPS cracks 'em for ya.

Tony

Fairlaneman

Tony the picture looks good in the Registry Set also. This is the first pre-cracked dime that has been received. Sort of suprised me when it fell in half while I was waiting at the train crossing here in town.

Just noticed something else when checking out the picture in the set. I own a "Pop 1" coin. Wow..... all kinds of good things are happening today. Beats the socks off the feet as to what happened on April 15.

Ken

fcloud

Ken,

I added a photo to my type set. It is a coins in which PCGS put a fingerprint on, cleaned the coin and it looked worse after it was cleaned, so I thought it would make a nice shot.

Tony

izzy452

You got a new icon, Ken ? Cool looking. Maybe the cracked slab wil be your next icon. LOL

Walt

Mark

Ken:

One question: Did you have to pay extra for the USPS's slab-cracking service?

Mark

LincolnCentMan

Ken,

This thing must be going around. Take a look at what I got in the mail the day before yesterday. I was hacked, because I wanted to sell this one quick. Even though the postal service said they'd take care of the reholdering fee and the round trip postage, it's a real pain to file the paper work. Plus I have the money in the coin frozen while PCGS takes their time reholdering it.

David

LincolnCentMan

By the way... it takes real talent to brake a PCGS slab into ONLY 2 pieces. You got to give them credit for that!

David

Dimetime

I had one broken the same place by them. They paid the insurance on the spot.
Just a side note. I tried the crack out game on an above-average 1930-s merc MS63FB. Just got it back today, AU58. Didn't touch or damage it in the least. Obviously grading is subjective. Won't try that again for awhile. JVoege

fcloud

Ken, too bad on the regrade. I sent two 1935 dimes in and the ugly one was graded MS65 and the great looking one was AU58. I still can't figure out where they saw any bit of slide on the coin. It is an real gem. Oh, well better luck next time.

Tony

Fairlaneman

David those slabs that start with 35 and 36 must be brittle. Almost the same exact crack job. The Postal Service is good.

John:

Mark the cracking had No Extra Charge that I saw. Hopefully no bill will arrive.

Ken

grip

If I diden't see I wouldn't belive.what in Hell did it run into?.Al

sinin1

If the envelope size is standard, the mechanical sorters do that when they bend envelopes around corners.

Where they padded envelopes?

sonofagunk

I think the trick is to break two at the same point, and then mix and match the certs.

Cocoinut

Here's my entry in the broken slab contest, courtesy of the USPS, of course.

Mark, you will be pleased to know that this is a free service! Unfortunately, it always seems to happen with coins that you don't want cracked out.

Check out the break in my slab to the one shown by LincolnCentMan - they're practically identical, so we could switch the tops as Son of a gunk suggested, and make them look like mislabelled coins.

Jim

python1

I had one cracked, by the postal service, just the same way. They did pay to fix it, but what a pain to get that done, and now the time to do it.

LincolnCentMan

Check out the break in my slab to the one shown by LincolnCentMan - they're practically identical,

Man, if I didnt see it, I wouldnt believe it. I've heard of trying to build a well matched set, but building a well matched collection of damaged holders....

David