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Gumdrop Kennedy. Or, What the Heck was PCGS Thinking?!

braddickbraddick Posts: 23,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
Just received this one today from a major Contemporary Coin Dealer:

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  • Looks ok to me and exactly what they graded it.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's the reverse...image
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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146
    What was PCGS Thinking?

    Market acceptable toning?
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's not often you see old-time toning on a thirteen year old coin.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It's not often you see old-time toning on a thirteen year old coin. >>



    Perhaps this coin was innocently left sitting on a wooden box at PCGS headquarters and then accidentally zapped by the 'life-cycle accelerator'. By the way, I read somewhere that David Hall was born in 1979.


  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps this coin was innocently left sitting on a wooden box at PCGS headquarters and then accidentally zapped by the 'life-cycle accelerator'. By the way, I read somewhere that David Hall was born in 1979.

    The real "life cycle accelerator":

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    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    Yes. That thin blue line starts to dance across your ceiling as you lie in bed at night.

    I solved that problem by painting my bedroom ceiling a nice rich royal blue.

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