holey moley that's a big cent!

cdwegner · July 27, 2004 10:50AM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31373&item=3923285328&rd=1

Tootawl · July 27, 2004 10:51AM

WTF?????

Either a large cent or a small slab.

coppercoins · July 27, 2004 10:53AM

erm, obviously blown up to show the details of the coin without wasting time with the empty space on a large bulky holder.

tmot99 · July 27, 2004 10:54AM

Interesting way to have a photo. I've never seen that before, but not a bad idea.

cdwegner · July 27, 2004 11:15AM

I thought it was a good idea, too.

19Lyds · July 27, 2004 11:29AM

WOW! Thats Huge! Wunder where they got it?

lordmarcovan · July 27, 2004 12:35PM

PCGS is grading coasters, now.

Cool. Why not?

Shamika · July 27, 2004 12:44PM

Hey, it's a thumbnail slab!

Conder101 · July 27, 2004 2:15PM

Well some of you folks have been complaining that you wanted a smaller slab to save on storage space. Looks like you got it.

dorkkarl · July 27, 2004 8:56PM

jeeeesz louise! i busted out laughing at that 1!

K S

earlwbollinger · July 27, 2004 8:59PM

Isn't that the new "magnifier" slab?
It has built in magnifier lenses so you can get a better view of your coin.

Steve27 · July 27, 2004 9:23PM

Very clever way to show the coin, I like it.

dorkkarl · July 27, 2004 10:24PM

i had to come back to this thread... that digi-pic is SOOOOOOO DANGED FUNNY!

K S

cdwegner · July 27, 2004 10:41PM

It's interesting that some saw an extra large cent and some saw a very small slab.

100proof1957 · July 27, 2004 11:17PM

Optimist or Pessimist ?

LincolnCentMan · July 27, 2004 11:30PM

Those slabs eat up a lot of memory space. I started making pics like this:

...to limit wasted memory storage for what amounted to 70% slab, 30% coin.

I was imaging my wife's morgan dollars the other day. PCGS places a 100KB limit on the size of the image you use to represent each coin. Even with the above style splice, I was ending up with images in the 130-150KB range. I then chopped the lable up and put the parts on the slab space around the coins, like this:

It worked out great. I get to keep the label information, and dont have to shrink the picture of the coin so there's space for a full label. The big drawback is it takes a lot of time to do all the splicing.

David

Tootawl · July 27, 2004 11:32PM

<< <i>It's interesting that some saw an extra large cent and some saw a very small slab. >>

I must be different. I saw it as both!

holey moley that's a big cent!

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