Humor at the risk of banishment...Another Important Notice

Monstavet

From PCGS to the Numismatic Community...

A follow-up to their latest investigation (see LINK )

PCGS has now revealed where all those nasty fingerprints on your submitted coins come from....and they didn't need Berkeley Engineering or a scanning electron microscope. This time, with the help of the FBI, they identified the cuplrits....and here they are

Good-bye cruel world.

ziggy29

And all this time, I thought it was the underpants gnomes.

mgoodm3

<< <i>And all this time, I thought it was the underpants gnomes. >>

MrLee

shylock

"Still offering free veterinary advice to Forum Members! Some questions may even be answered correctly! Send PM!"

How could they ban someone with such a humane signature line? (But if they do, do you have any next of kin you plan on leaving that cute little puppy icon to?)

coynclecter

My.......... what shady looking characters. They LOOK guilty!!

relayer

Interesting Story.

Glad to see PCGS used some nice reasoning to uncover the issue.

coinguy1

That explanation would make wonderful sense to me, but for the fact that........ it doesn't seem to account for different coins being removed from flips at many different/various degrees of rotation and not necessarily all with the same side facing the (alleged damage-causing) particles.

Monstavet

Using gas chromatography, they were able to confirm that the fingerprint residue has the same chemical signature as Mcdonalds secret special sauce.

robertpr

Using gas chromatography, they were able to confirm that the fingerprint residue has the same chemical signature as Mcdonalds secret special sauce.

And I for one, don't particularly want to hear what exactly is in that stuff

FrattLaw

These particles were confirmed through the services of Berkeley Engineering and Research, Inc., who subjected both the coins and flips to examination with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped with an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). These particles ranged in size from approximately 5 to 15 microns. EDS spectra representative of approximately 50% of the particles analyzed showed peaks of silicon (Si), sulfur (S), chlorine (Cl), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn).

Wow, and they still slab AT coins. You would think that with a little tweaking they could use the same methods to determine the origin of particular toning.

Michael

dorkkarl

sounds like a plausible theory.

K S

ibzman350

Sounds good....but I'll have to go along with what coinguy1 said.



Herb