New PCGS slab?

Barry · April 10, 2004 7:44PM

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Do you think this guy is really this clueless, or just stupid? His use of the word do makes me wonder.
Uncirculated because they use the term MS on the BB

And this one. Brown and uncirculated

JrGMan2004 · April 10, 2004 7:49PM

pontiacinf · April 10, 2004 7:57PM

now thats funny

bearcave · April 10, 2004 7:58PM

Clueless or not, he has 8 bids and $1,525.00 price for it so far.

nankraut · April 10, 2004 11:29PM

Just another deceptive "hook" for the uneducated. W.C. Fields is smiling again.

TommyB · April 11, 2004 12:39AM

seems pretty honest to me!

Iwog · April 11, 2004 1:07AM

The scans are good so someone buying this coin knows exactly what they are getting. Assuming that's the original PCGS tag, the coin has at least been authenticated. It's not unusual to crack a coin out but keep the PCGS label for reference.

Calling this coin MS however is just stupid.

Waldo · April 11, 2004 1:10AM

<< 
And this one. Brown and uncirculated

>>

Wow! And I thought I was bad at grading!

mercurynut · April 11, 2004 1:15AM

Russ · April 11, 2004 1:50AM

<< Do you think this guy is really this clueless, or just stupid? >>

Neither. He knows exactly what he's doing. There are plenty of people cruising eBay who will look and not really see.

<< The scans are good so someone buying this coin knows exactly what they are getting. >>

The scans are deliberately done in such a way so that at first glance the coin appears to be in a slab.

<< PCGS has graded this Coin UNCIRCULATED in condition >>

This is also a lie. The MS on the bodybag simply means the coin is a circulation strike, it does not mean it's uncirculated.

Russ, NCNE

jonesy · April 11, 2004 1:52AM

It shows up on the PCGS verification. Do they put bodybags on this too????

Russ · April 11, 2004 1:54AM

Jonesy,

Yes. All coins are assigned a cert #, even bodybags.

Russ, NCNE

Barry · April 11, 2004 1:56AM

Are body bags sealed, or could the coin be removed and replaced?

Does PCGS's authenticity guarantee apply to body bags?

Russ · April 11, 2004 1:57AM

<< Are body bags sealed, or could the coin be removed and replaced? >>

It's just a flip, unsealed.

<< Does PCGS's authenticity guarantee apply to body bags? >>

No.

Russ, NCNE

jonesy · April 11, 2004 1:58AM

Thanks Russ!!

Conder101 · April 11, 2004 5:10AM

<< Assuming that's the original PCGS tag, the coin has at least been authenticated. >>

The fact that it has a PCGS BB insert also is no guarantee that PCGS EVER authenticated it. If they pulled out a coin and immediately saw that it was say harshly cleaned, it goes straight to the body bag and no examination for authenticity would be done on it. For example if you added an S mintmark to an 1893 dollar and then cleaned it with baking soda he first thing the grader sees will be the harsh scrubbing and you will most likely get the coin back with a body bag that just says 1893-S harsh cleaning, not altered.