Take a hint from their name. Once in a "blue moon" you might get something properly graded and worth the money. Who in their right mind would have cracked that coin out of a PCGS slab and then sent it to SEGS? Would seem much more fitting to send it to ANACS to me if you wanted the error noted. I find it interesting that it lost it's FB designation in the process. I personally don't think that PCGS label has ever had anything to do with that coin.
SHELF Double Date is numismatic double talk for machine doubling which isn't worth diddly - and being that it's coming from Blue Moon Coins, it's doubly suspect. If that's a true double date I'll eat my hat.
<< <i>Iis this the "phantom Breen coin" written about years ago by Walter Breen? Is there another 1918 Mercury out there with such a pronounced double date? >>
Seems like he has a lot of questions. He's been studying that page for so long you'd think he have some answers by now
Take a hint from their name. Once in a "blue moon" you might get something properly graded and worth the money. Who in their right mind would have cracked that coin out of a PCGS slab and then sent it to SEGS? Would seem much more fitting to send it to ANACS to me if you wanted the error noted. I find it interesting that it lost it's FB designation in the process. I personally don't think that PCGS label has ever had anything to do with that coin.
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Wayne >>
Wayne, PCGS's insert is also a part of the SEGS insert.
I see it now. Is it real? If so, I see that I was wrong and I retract my earlier statement that this coin had nothing to do with the PCGS insert. Anyone have some whole wheat bread for this foot sandwich?
The fault with this slab does not lay with the person selling the coin but with the company that slabbed the coin. Hell its just plain machine doubling which is real common with Mercs.
Wayne take a look at your 18P. I believe you will see the same thing on yours if the memory serves me correctly.
SEGS is notorious for slabbing dubious and questionable varieties that PCGS/NGC/ANACS won't touch with a ten foot pole. This is one of the reasons they are garbage. This is a perfect case of strike doubling.
<< <i>The fault with this slab does not lay with the person selling the coin but with the company that slabbed the coin. Hell its just plain machine doubling which is real common with Mercs. >>
If that's the case, why didn't they start the auction at $1 and let the market determine it's fair price. Instead they purposely make the coin look like a true rarity by hawking it at a ridiculous price - don't tell me these guys don't know better!
<< <i>Iis this the "phantom Breen coin" written about years ago by Walter Breen? Is there another 1918 Mercury out there with such a pronounced double date? >>
Seems like he has a lot of questions. He's been studying that page for so long you'd think he have some answers by now >>
you guys cracked me up - I definently have the whole picture here - thanks to all!
I sensed something was wrong when you have the seller include a picture of himself reading a book - I wonder if that is the Breen book he's trying to decipher in that picture?
Long ago, I started a date/mint set of doubled date merc dimes. I don't remember precisely the number that I found, but it was more than 30 different, because I sold the set for more than $150 and had it figured at $5 per coin.
I should have added that some of the doubling was so dramatic that it was readily apparent even without a glass. Anymore, I practically need the glass just to know the type.
Note that SEGS put quotes around the words shelf doubled. I would say that SEGS was specificly asked to note the doubling on the label and SEGS put in the qotes to call attention to the fact that there is something odd about the "doubling". Probably whoever owned the PCGS slab noted the doubling and wanted it mentioned. PCGS wouldn't do it so they turned to SEGS.
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Edited to add: Isn't "shelf doubled" just machine doubling?
Take a hint from their name. Once in a "blue moon" you might get something properly graded and worth the money. Who in their right mind would have cracked that coin out of a PCGS slab and then sent it to SEGS? Would seem much more fitting to send it to ANACS to me if you wanted the error noted. I find it interesting that it lost it's FB designation in the process. I personally don't think that PCGS label has ever had anything to do with that coin.
Regards,
Wayne
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<< <i>Iis this the "phantom Breen coin" written about years ago by Walter Breen? Is there another 1918 Mercury out there with such a pronounced double date? >>
Seems like he has a lot of questions. He's been studying that page for so long you'd think he have some answers by now
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<< <i>Hi Marc,
Take a hint from their name. Once in a "blue moon" you might get something properly graded and worth the money. Who in their right mind would have cracked that coin out of a PCGS slab and then sent it to SEGS? Would seem much more fitting to send it to ANACS to me if you wanted the error noted. I find it interesting that it lost it's FB designation in the process. I personally don't think that PCGS label has ever had anything to do with that coin.
Regards,
Wayne >>
Wayne, PCGS's insert is also a part of the SEGS insert.
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I see it now. Is it real? If so, I see that I was wrong and I retract my earlier statement that this coin had nothing to do with the PCGS insert. Anyone have some whole wheat bread for this foot sandwich?
Regards,
Wayne
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Wayne take a look at your 18P. I believe you will see the same thing on yours if the memory serves me correctly.
Ken
<< <i>The fault with this slab does not lay with the person selling the coin but with the company that slabbed the coin. Hell its just plain machine doubling which is real common with Mercs. >>
If that's the case, why didn't they start the auction at $1 and let the market determine it's fair price. Instead they purposely make the coin look like a true rarity by hawking it at a ridiculous price - don't tell me these guys don't know better!
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<< <i>Iis this the "phantom Breen coin" written about years ago by Walter Breen? Is there another 1918 Mercury out there with such a pronounced double date? >>
Seems like he has a lot of questions. He's been studying that page for so long you'd think he have some answers by now
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obviously fishing for some coin newbie with more money than brains.
hey, it only takes one sucker to bite and they make a fortune.
worth a shot huh?.......
how under-handed.
stinks to high heaven i tell ya.
Ken
I sensed something was wrong when you have the seller include a picture of himself reading a book - I wonder if that is the Breen book he's trying to decipher in that picture?
Marc
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