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Cannot think of the mindset of the person doing this.



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Dan
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  • sweetwillietsweetwilliet Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭
    They must not have agreed with the grade.


    Will


    Edited to add my name. You called me out in your title.image
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  • zeebobzeebob Posts: 2,825 ✭
    I'm going with the didn't agree with the grade theory. The grade and the cert number are obfuscated. Maybe the coin was stolen? Guess the owner wanted to try and sell it as a slabbed genuine coin and still obliterate the PCGS opinion on grade and cert #.
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    Stolen, that's kind of spookie.image
    Becky
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool.
    A new type of "Guess the Grade" thread.
    image or is that "guess the authenticity" ?
  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    Is this the same person that uses bullets to hole Lincoln cents? image
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Must have dropped some acid. This is your slab on drugs.
  • slipgateslipgate Posts: 2,301 ✭✭
    pgd - post grading damage
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  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭
    I would lean toward stolen as the damage is very strategic in placement , the only problem with that is it would make much more sense to deslab it and sell it as raw ungraded ?
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Seller is advertising it as a VG+; I bet PCGS gave it no better than a G4 (and from those pics it could be an AG3).
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    Yet another thing to write down in my book about eBay photographic techniques.
  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Is this the same person that uses bullets to hole Lincoln cents? image >>


    Is he back from Iraq?
    Paul
  • golfer72golfer72 Posts: 3,588
    Poor crackout technique?
  • sanitarium1inmatesanitarium1inmate Posts: 1,078 ✭✭


    << <i>pgd - post grading damage >>



    +1
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,652 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like the time I bought a holey coin in a slab for my Holey Coin Vest, and at somebody's suggestion, I holed the slab and hung it on the vest instead of cracking the coin out. (I eventually tired of the joke and cracked it out, though.)

    That looks like a deliberate attack on the grade and the cert number, which makes one wonder why they didn't just crack the coin out.

    Actually, that last hole on the bottom right looks like it might not go all the way through, and maybe the cert number would be readable with the slab in hand?

    Weird.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,652 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Stolen, that's kind of spookie. >>

    I hadn't thought of that. She's right. That IS kind of spooky.

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  • FECFEC Posts: 592
    If it was stolen why would they obliterate the grade? Cert number sure, but not the grade. Clearly this is someone who is (an idiot) who thinks its a VG and didnt get the grade so he had this bright idea which would cause me not to bid on it period.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,062 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One should be able to get the grade from what's left of the barcode.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • eggboneeggbone Posts: 615 ✭
    Buy the coin...Not the plastic!

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image


    Cannot think of the mindset of the person doing this.



    ebay link to coin


    Dan >>



    Is Liberty wearing a monocle ?
  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    <<Is he back from Iraq?>>


    Not sure. While searching threads I came across one of his posts.

    I personally dont know that poster, but if he is serving oversee's, my heart and thanks go out to him. And if he is reading this thread, good luck and god speed. image
  • CopperWireCopperWire Posts: 492 ✭✭✭
    blasphemy!!
  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    Will here's something new to do to a slab.....halfnut


    Haven't seen Will reply to this thread yet.

    Ray
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,555 ✭✭✭✭✭
    co-reactive letter obliteration.


    this happens to all my 69's

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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,062 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Grade Revealed!! G06

    You can make out the barcode up to the last bar of the grade, and that's it. 04, 08, and 10 do not work. The serial number is just made up to make sure I had the correct number of digits.
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    So it appears this guy is trying to upgrade the coin in the holder.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    Didn't like the grade so he converted it to a "Genuine" holder of sorts. --Jerry
  • ProofCentsProofCents Posts: 1,656
    My guess is a lighter caused this melted the slab
  • Tyler1924STyler1924S Posts: 1,328
    Great work by messydesk regarding the barcode. Freshly slabbed. Looks like someone used a drill on it. The drill bit (probably dull) became hot enough to melt plastic. Probably drilled two holes at grade, but also pushed drill from one side to the other to connect holes. Someone who would rather get F-12 money for it.
  • 8RealesReality8RealesReality Posts: 139 ✭✭
    And all this time I just thought it was for one of those car dashboard Barber Half Mobile Displays. I hear they're all the rage in some circles.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,363 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Didn't like the grade so he converted it to a "Genuine" holder of sorts. --Jerry >>



    Bingo. The only thing you can say is that PCGS says it's genuine and problem free.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,363 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My guess is a lighter caused this melted the slab >>



    Looks like he used a drill.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • StubbyMcNumbthumbsStubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭
    Maybe it was just a feeble, failed crackout attempt.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,363 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Maybe it was just a feeble, failed crackout attempt. >>



    I doubt it. He was obviously was trying to hide the grade.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • StubbyMcNumbthumbsStubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭
    I agree. Forgive my feeble, failed humor attempt.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Grade Revealed!! G06

    You can make out the barcode up to the last bar of the grade, and that's it. 04, 08, and 10 do not work. The serial number is just made up to make sure I had the correct number of digits.
    image
    image

    So it appears this guy is trying to upgrade the coin in the holder. >>



    I wonder if CAC would sticker it, AS IS image
  • AberlightAberlight Posts: 384 ✭✭


    << <i>Must have dropped some acid. This is your slab on drugs. >>



    Wouldn't we see colors?

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