PCGS Set Registry 2020
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The year is 2020 and the top five sets in all Registries belong to SCAV-2 (Solid Coin Analyzer/Valuator Model 2).
The original SCAV system, designed by Ken Claypool in 2005 as a tool to help him evaluate coins was a great success. Unfortunately, it was self-determined to be of inferior design, and unbeknownst to him, utilized 50% of it's processing power to redesign itself and contract with an outside source for the secret manufacture of SCAV-2.
From the moment SCAV-2 came on-line, the numismatic world was turned upside down. This new system took on a life of its own. It established an Internet presence, along with a bank account, and proceeded to scour the net 24 hours a day, 7 days a week buying and selling coins with astonishing speed and accuracy. It literally bought/sold everything, from junk to gem, in order to finance it's quest for the finest.
If a coin on the net included a photo, the SCAV-2 system could analyze it pixel by pixel to determine its strengths and weaknesses. It used its own proprietary 4x1000 point grading scale for strike, luster, marks and lens-appeal. It knew the market value of every coin down to the penny. In an auction format, it simply couldn't be beat as it would snipe all the good coins in the last microsecond. After awhile, nobody even bothered bidding as they knew they would lose in the end to SCAV-2.
To this day, nobody knows where all these coins are. SCAV-2 operates anonymously and ruthlessly, buying all the great numismatic wonders and secreting them away, perhaps never to be seen again...
Still, there is hope. The word on the street is that Ken has been quietly observing SCAV-2 operate for the past several years and has detected a potential flaw. He is now working on a new system that will beat SCAV-2 at its own game.
The original SCAV system, designed by Ken Claypool in 2005 as a tool to help him evaluate coins was a great success. Unfortunately, it was self-determined to be of inferior design, and unbeknownst to him, utilized 50% of it's processing power to redesign itself and contract with an outside source for the secret manufacture of SCAV-2.
From the moment SCAV-2 came on-line, the numismatic world was turned upside down. This new system took on a life of its own. It established an Internet presence, along with a bank account, and proceeded to scour the net 24 hours a day, 7 days a week buying and selling coins with astonishing speed and accuracy. It literally bought/sold everything, from junk to gem, in order to finance it's quest for the finest.
If a coin on the net included a photo, the SCAV-2 system could analyze it pixel by pixel to determine its strengths and weaknesses. It used its own proprietary 4x1000 point grading scale for strike, luster, marks and lens-appeal. It knew the market value of every coin down to the penny. In an auction format, it simply couldn't be beat as it would snipe all the good coins in the last microsecond. After awhile, nobody even bothered bidding as they knew they would lose in the end to SCAV-2.
To this day, nobody knows where all these coins are. SCAV-2 operates anonymously and ruthlessly, buying all the great numismatic wonders and secreting them away, perhaps never to be seen again...
Still, there is hope. The word on the street is that Ken has been quietly observing SCAV-2 operate for the past several years and has detected a potential flaw. He is now working on a new system that will beat SCAV-2 at its own game.
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Great post.
When you make a movie out of this are you going to have
Arnold play Ken?
No, wait, Arni will play the voice of the SCAV-2.
Keanu Reeves will play Neo, I mean Ken.
-Keith H
I will be played by someone that men respect and women really, really dig - just as in real life!
Ken
That was the funnest damn post I have read in a long time! I think I just pooped my pants!
(note to self: last part was TRUE!)
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