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Would You knowingly put a "tainted coin" in your Registry Set ?

STEWARTBLAYNUMISSTEWARTBLAYNUMIS Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭
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A tainted coin could be one that has been recolored but got into a holder.It can also be a coin from a questionable source (such as the Large cents that were stolen from the ANS).I've also heard of tainted coins from an unscrupulous dealer who acquired them by unscrupulous means.

Are there any in your registry set ?

In other words does your coins have good Karma (pedigree)
Stewart

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,394 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Other than one or 2 from NCS, mine have good Karma. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • WalkernutWalkernut Posts: 123 ✭
    Yep, I got this coin for peanuts after it was passed around as a joke on Ebay earlier this year. The sellers did this to goad PCGS I think. I went another step and put it in my registry set #2 with this picture and an appropriate comment. Gary S.

    image
  • coolkarmacoolkarma Posts: 512 ✭✭
    To my knowledge, my coins all have "Cool Karma". image I've owned some that did not, but they have all been returned to PCGS under their guarantee.

    CoolKarma
    PR Lincoln
    MS Buffalo
    MS 1951
  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,805 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have none that have been messed with. But properly graded..no that is another story...

    WS
    Proud recipient of the coveted PCGS Forum "You Suck" Award Thursday July 19, 2007 11:33 PM and December 30th, 2011 at 8:50 PM.
  • jacktheknifejacktheknife Posts: 1,547 ✭



    If I had a registry set, I would absolutely put a "tainted coin" in it. All that matters for the registry is the number on the holder. If PCGS says it's so, then it's so.


    Jack



  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭


    << <i>If I had a registry set, I would absolutely put a "tainted coin" in it. All that matters for the registry is the number on the holder. If PCGS says it's so, then it's so. >>



    Good point! Just like the 1963 PR70DCAM Lincoln, the number on the holder sells.


    Perhaps that's why a number of sets don't include images of the coins. imageimage




    Dan
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All my coins are pure, pristine and virtuous.

    They're in PCGS holders, aren't they?

    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,095 ✭✭✭✭✭
    AFAIK all my coins have Cool Karma. If I had a few I would keep them in my set until a replacement could be found. Even tho others may never know, I think I mite feel "ill at ease" owning coins of dubious lineage.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    Would You knowingly put a "tainted coin" in your Registry Set ?

    I've had a few. They are, at best, place holders until I can find a coin more to my liking.

    David
    Lincolncentman Toned Lincolns
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Tainted? you mean that their are

    coins of dubious reputation. If I did

    find one in my collection, I would probably try to

    sell it to Stewart.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,008 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Smoe latent tainted coins have been replaced.image
    Doug
  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ain't no taint in my sets
    not a lot of money that's why I am currently in the top twenty in merc dimes, but in the top 5 of 38 proof sets!
    Pat Vetter,Mercury Dime registry set,1938 Proof set registry,Pat & BJ Coins:724-325-7211


  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    If I had a registry set, I would absolutely put a "tainted coin" in it. All that matters for the registry is the number on the holder. If PCGS says it's so, then it's so.

    The goal of the Registry is the accumulation of high grades. It makes collecting easy and solvent. Don't bore me with the details of how a coin made the holder. Just show me the holder and say "cheeze".
    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭

    My registry Flying Eagle cent sets all have good karma (I own them!).

    Don't tell me there should be some kind of virginity test for our coins.
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    I wouldn't put a tainted coin on the Olsen twin's taint!! image
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