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  • smprfismprfi Posts: 874


    << <i>how about a slab for Carlos Hathco**!!!!!!! image

    (the spellchecker would not let me spell his name correctly, insert ck) image >>



    Gunny Hathc**k U.S.M.C. Sniper. 93 confirmed kills.image
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    what a joke. I wouldnt take one if offered to me.
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    There's an article in today's paper about the Lynch's visit to sign the slab inserts. Check it out before the link changes.
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536
    She looks like she's in the sealing room and they didn't give her headphones.
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  • TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭
    I'd rather have a slab signed by a real hero: Gomer Pyle! image
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  • ccexccex Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm waiting on the PCGS slabbed Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski "oral sex" coin to be issued.... >>



    Does PCGS certify those popular novelty Arkansas "Head Quarters" or "Close Quarters" with Clinton on the reverse, behind a tree?
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    barfhurlpuke


    (edit: not Jessica Lynch- just all the hoopla.)

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  • MacCoinMacCoin Posts: 2,544 ✭✭
    I'ld buy mrpaseo, smprfi, coin Lt or any of the other member hero before J.L.
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  • Ya know, PCGS has a fanstastic marketing tool with their very own U.S. Coin Forum. Where would you expect to find the core of a target market for a new slab idea? Of course: a chat room about coins and slabs! All that they had to do was post a thread entitled. "What do you think of our idea about a Jessica Lynch slab? Yes or No?"

    So far, I have only found 1 or 2 people within this thread willing to purchase one of the Lynch slabs. Really, really bad idea.

    All service men and women should be honored every day in our hearts and minds............not with a cheap piece of plastic.
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  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Two Comments:

    The Republicans are going to buy a lot ofthis crap....

    Now you know why it takes 65+ days to get a coin slabbed by PCGS!

    WS
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  • INXSINXS Posts: 1,202
    I being a VN veteran with 2 PH's and a CMH would just like to say they should have certified a SAE for all the vets that served in Iraq rather than single out one individual. This is just capitalizing for monetary purposes plain and simple.
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  • bengalsbengals Posts: 241
    i'll take bill and monica over what we have right now in the white house any day...4 more months!
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    I can't believe that Kiefer still hasn't corrected the title of this threadimage
  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well,

    We have been through this one before....

    Some of you remember that infamous thread.

    The marketing gimmick is pathetic but no reason to rip on Jessica Lynch.

    I will leave it at that...

    Dont judge what you dont know about.

    What were you doing while she was getting shot at in the desert?

    John
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777
    I agree with coinlieutenant....Ken
  • Now if they had Jessica Simpson slabs...I'd be all over itimage
  • Ok, time for my two cents worth~~~~~

    Let's see, she never fired one shot, she was captured balled up in the humvee crying and praying to God, and she is a

    HERO?????????


    And now has a slabbed signature coin??


    When I was in the Navy, I cut my finger replacing the wheel hub of a mobile generator during the first Gulf War, do I get to put my signature on the Saint Gaudens????????

    PAAAALLLLLEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777


    << <i>Ok, time for my two cents worth~~~~~ >>

    Actually, that's about it's worth! Are you jealous that someone else got something you did not? If you were not there, how can you tell us what happened? Are you psychic???....image
  • Well, if you watched NBC and her interview, you would have heard it all yourself straight from her own mouth.
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777


    << <i>Well, if you watched NBC >>

    That was your first mistake!!!...image

    The second mistake was to believe them...image
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    another old thread that somehow seems pertinent to the whole "first strike" - ahem - issue

    K S
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    I'm just concerned that this might degrade the value of my First Strikes....--jerry
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  • bigtime36bigtime36 Posts: 965 ✭✭✭✭
    ID HAVE TO SAY MAKING A COIN FOR HER IS SAD, ITS ONE PERSON. YEAH IT WAS A BAD DEAL BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER THOUSANDS OF SOILDERS THAT HAVE BEEN CAPTURED AND OR KILLED... NOT ONE THING BUT A NAME ON A WALL

    ITS DISCRASEFUL ON HOW PEOPLE TRY TO MAKE MONEY OFF THIS STUFF, IF THEY ARE THEY COULD AT LEAST DONATE THE MONEY TO FAMILYS

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  • gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭


    << <i>At the risk of being expelled from this forum-I'm surprised that a company of this magnitude would prostitute themselves like this. I thought such gimmicks were the sole property of lesser regarded slabbing companies. I guess I was wrong. >>



    I agree completely, koynkeywest. But in PCGS's defense, they've never said it was about anything but the money....the money...the money...the money. You have to give them credit for tacitly acknowledging that.
    As a journalist, I only resent that they haven't come up with a Daniel Pearl slab. Now, when you get your head cut off in pursuit of the great institution of freedom of the press, you'd think it would be worth a little recogniton. But no...
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  • Wait a min. folks. I thought it was a very good rehab technique for the young lady. Ever lay in a hosp. for a long long time after that kind of ordeal??

    I spent 36 years total as a supervisor of psychiatric units for the State of Calif. as well as 9th med. battalion for 10 months in Vietnam and on top of that 3 Months laying in a hosp. bed recovering from wounds.

    The trauma she went through few in this world have any idea. It was a good deed to occupy her with something she thought would benefit others!
    DENNIS HOUGARD


  • << <i>As a journalist, I only resent that they haven't come up with a Daniel Pearl slab. Now, when you get your head cut off in pursuit of the great institution of freedom of the press, you'd think it would be worth a little recogniton. But no... >>


    The problem is Pearl's not around to sign 10,000 labels. Still they might be able to autopen it by tracing one of his signatures. ZIf you really feel that strongly about it you need to talk to Folkartnut since he is the driving force (and maker of most of the profit if any) behind almost all of the signature slabs. PCGS doesn't come up with these things on their own, they do it for compensation from individuals or companies. Pay them enough and you can get a slab label with what you want on it.
  • xbobxbob Posts: 1,979
    Signature slabs do seem to have faded and perhaps that is the fate of FirstStrike someday. I don't think they even sell for any significant premium.

    I think the signature slabs that the designer of the coin signs are pretty cool! I only have the Bicentennial Quarter slab, signed by reverse designer Jack L. Ahr. I've also seen signature slabbed Sacagaweas (Goodacre) and State quarters (including some from forum member Daniel Carr).

    Celebrity signed ones don't do anything for me. I like it to be related to the coin.
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  • holeinone1972holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭
    I own this coin and certificate and a poster.

    I thought it was neat, if not a little wacky.

    Since it is worth more than I paid for it I am ok with it.

    Hero or not, I am glad the troops are there for us!

    Rob
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  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    what are they worth now?

    K S
  • Not that you actually want an answer...

    $41 + juice for a 69 unc on Teletrade.

    Why did I look that up?
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah, now she says she really was not a big hero, it was all PR.

    I suppose the DOD held a gun to her head when she was signing those slabs and taking the money.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Re-Submit and get the JaneFonda Label image

    Coins are worth what others are willing to pay.
    and yet, for some reason, a cover sells a book.
  • I saw the JL slab 3 or 4 years ago, and thought it seemed like a misstep for PCGS -- I think they must have thought so as well, since they have not repeated it.

    Anytime you're running a large enterprise, there are going to be things you try, and then look back on and wonder "what were we thinking?".

    It happens...

    Rex
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  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those that are true heroes never seek it.
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