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Slab lovers and all people who dream and have joked about this kind of thing

kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
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I know I have joked about a chocolate "coin" in a slab from one of the major services and I have heard others say the same thing more as a joke then something possible. Well, it happened in 2001 and by PCGS! This is NOT a doctored scan:

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From a Gallery Mint Employee:



<< <i>Remember, GMM struck the Central America Kellogg's in San Francisco. While doing so they stuck a foil covered chocolate in the tray and it got slabbed thusly! >>



LOL! Very cool!

Cameron Kiefer

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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I could see that ending up on ebay and being sold as the real deal, with a apology about the poor quality scan..... image
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I ain't buying it.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Its true Russ.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    who's got it?
  • kyleknapkyleknap Posts: 980
    No more photoshop for you.image

    Kyle
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Cammie will believe anything.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    The Gallery Mint has it. It isn't photo shopped. It was scanned and its just a reflection off the slab at low resolution.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    Looks like one of those choclate coins in a slab.

    Oh---you said that...DOH!image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • Sphinx357Sphinx357 Posts: 1,279


    << <i>Its true Russ.

    Cameron Kiefer >>


    Now you're just making s*** up.
  • granddadgranddad Posts: 966 ✭
    1855 restrike, dated 1852?
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    Sweet! image
  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    wouldnt they weight it or something ?
    doubt that chocolate has the same specific gravity.
    image
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>No more photoshop for you >>

    Couldn't be photoshop... do you know how long it takes to teach Cameron a new program? It'd take a few years to teach him Photoshop image
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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Jeremy is right. He can't teach me simple web things let alone the whole photoshop program. This is real guys unless my source is lying to me which I don't believe is happening. I asked for better scans this evening.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>unless my source is lying to me >>



    image

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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    How much you wanna bet Russ?

    Cameron Kiefer
  • Sphinx357Sphinx357 Posts: 1,279
    image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>How much you wanna bet Russ?

    Cameron Kiefer >>



    Since you already said you won't believe David Hall's answer because he's always wrong, what's the point?

    Russ, NCNE
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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    I never said that Russ. link the thread if you want from the open forum. I said 50% of the time he tells me to ask someone else. I didn't say he was always wrong. You are trying to pick a fight and I'm not going to get into it.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>You are trying to pick a fight and I'm not going to get into it.

    Cameron Kiefer >>



    Too late. image

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Russ did Cmmie really say that DH is usually wrong? >>



    Yeah, it's over in the open forum.



    << <i>Cammie I am surprised at you. >>



    Surprised me also.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    My name is NOT Cammie and I did NOT say that.

    Cameroon Kiefer
  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    Cammy says it's real, Russ says it isn't. This calls for a bet.
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Question submitted to Q&A...
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    Time to contact Snopes.com.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    David Hall is logged in right now.

    Bump. image

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  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    The title won't get his attention. It should be, "PCGS slabs chocolate coin."
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The real problem is that real chocolate coin collectors will not want the coin unless
    they are confident that there's chocolate in it. Anybody can slab one of these and
    make it look real but the proof is in the seeing. Perhaps the grader was a little hun-
    gry or needed something for his fingers. It isn't hard to imagine that he'd carefully
    open the candy and eat the copper colored core. Then the empty husk could be re-
    stored to its former shape and encapsulated. It looks like there a real cunundrum
    here: open the slab and lose the value of the encapsulation and the only way to trust
    its authenticity or leave it as is and make it worthless to a true chocolate coin collector.image

    Good luck.

    Tempus fugit.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,253 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with this thing if I could be reasonably confident that the chocolate used was recovered from the wreck of the SS Central America.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭


    << <i>You are trying to pick a fight and I'm not going to get into it. >>

    Damn Wimp!!!!..image
  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    i say send it to WWGS (willy wonka grading service) for xover and authentication !
    image
  • steelheadbobsteelheadbob Posts: 51
    Are chocholate coins like fine wine? Do you need to establish they were kept at the proper humidity and temp?
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  • earlwbollingerearlwbollinger Posts: 1,304
    You can weigh a slab with a chocolate coin on top, say use a penny slab.
    Then take a penny and lay it on top of the slabbed candy coin, they should weigh almost the same.
    Granted there might be a tiny bit of differences in how much chocolate and how much foil wrapper is used.
    Thus you don't have to crack the slab.
    Personally I don;t want to eat a many year old piece of chocolate myself. iI's like wanting to pop the cork on that 100 year old bottle of $50,000.00 wine.
    Maybe it's vinegar maybe it's wine.

    image
  • jomjom Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image Hmmmm....chocolate....

    jom
  • dimplesdimples Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭
    It could be a white chocolate error gold foiled coin. Very very rare
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    i think i saw emery norweb's fingerprint on the foil wrapper! wrong pedigree???

    K S
  • BillFBillF Posts: 229
    Well, it IS PCGS and it ISN'T PCGS.

    You are all getting your acronyms mixed up. All of you are thinking the PCGS means Profession COIN Grading Service, when for this case it is actually the Professional CHOCOLATE Grading Service.


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    Bill Ferguson
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    I think someone is pulling Cammy's leg. That "coin" appears to on top of and not in the slab. Additionally, I could see PCGS slabbing it, but not with the regular insert.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Its real. The Gallery Mint has it, and the slab is sealed with the chocolate coin inside.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭


    << <i>I think someone is pulling Cammy's leg. That "coin" appears to on top of and not in the slab. Additionally, I could see PCGS slabbing it, but not with the regular insert. >>






    Clearly
  • baccarudabaccaruda Posts: 2,588 ✭✭
    I have always dreamt of this, and I'm always a hit at parties when I joke about a chocolate coin in a plastic slab.
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  • jonesyjonesy Posts: 5,031
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  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    What's the big deal, here? PCGS slabs all sorts of things...

    image
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    David Hall's reply to Marty's Q&A question as too whether PCGS slabbed it "Not as far as I know...unless someone did it as a joke."
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    I told Russ David Hall wouldn't know. Stop calling me a liar guys and do some research yourself. Call the Gallery Mint and ask them.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭
    This is funny! image

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  • Sphinx357Sphinx357 Posts: 1,279


    << <i>What's the big deal, here? PCGS slabs all sorts of things...

    image >>


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