Very strange! What are the odds that 19 of the 26 PR70 1964 JFKs would be from the same submission?
Russ
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AND be consecutively numbered, AND be the only coins on that submission?
There were two 1964 proof Kennedys graded PR70 recently listed on eBay. The cert numbers were only two apart, so I'm thinking this submitter had a very lucky day at the trough. Man, is that an understatement! I started checking the surrounding numbers.
The submission begins with cert #7722369, which is a PR70. The submission ends with 7722388, which is a PR70. Every number in between is also a PR70, without interruption.
PCGS should hire that submitter as a grader because he sure has one hell of an eye!
Russ, NCNE
There were two 1964 proof Kennedys graded PR70 recently listed on eBay. The cert numbers were only two apart, so I'm thinking this submitter had a very lucky day at the trough. Man, is that an understatement! I started checking the surrounding numbers.
The submission begins with cert #7722369, which is a PR70. The submission ends with 7722388, which is a PR70. Every number in between is also a PR70, without interruption.
PCGS should hire that submitter as a grader because he sure has one hell of an eye!
Russ, NCNE
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<< <i>It's Platinum Jr., comin' to git ya!
There's obviously something not entirely right here. One is forced to believe that
it really was a combination of luck and timing and that the recipient didn't really
look at 75% of all the coins which have been graded to date.
<< <i>It's Platinum Jr., comin' to git ya! >>
Strangely, his set is gone from the registry. I sure hope he and daddy haven't given up already.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>Russ. Did this submission occur a few years ago? >>
Earlier blue label holders with the bar code on the back, so at least before February 2002.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>PCGS should hire that submitter as a grader because he sure has one hell of an eye! >>
Most be the same person who scored a bunch of PR70DCAM Ikes. I believe there was one submitter who recieved a sh*tload of the all 70 Ikes all on one submission. A couple of which have been now downgraded by subsequent buyers.
Starts to make you wonder about the validity of the PCGS "holier-than-thou" 70 grade.
But I'm sure there's nothing fishy going on with this situation though.
Ah....the smell of coffee.......
Michael
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<< <i>The odds are excellent if the coins were submitted for pre-grading (in a much larger group) with a minimum grade of 70. >>
Yeah, I thought of that. I find it highly unlikely, though, that on a coin this common and one that - at the time - brought a nice premium for PR69, a bulker would specify a minimum grade of PR70. It makes sense for modern bulk submissions at a minimum PR69DCAM. In this case logic dictates otherwise.
Russ, NCNE
Good point. Still, it's possible that serial numbers were assigned first to the 69's, then to the 70's, in which case all the 70's would be consecutively numbered. Since I'm just guessing, I suggest you ask HRH.
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<< <i>Still, it's possible that serial numbers were assigned first to the 69's, then to the 70's >>
If that were the case, there would be a group of PR69's either at the beginning of the submission or the end of the submission. The submission begins and ends with PR70.
Russ, NCNE
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
I had a newsetter from him here somewhere at one time...
www.cameocc.com maybe?
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