Cracked Elgin

pocketpiececommems

Can someone get a link to this one? 320398805392 I wonder wha the PO dropped on this one?

lcoopie

link

shottaker

Interesting.

Doesnt look like all of the pieces are there. Just a bit missing. WOuldnt be where the sidecutters were used? Naah.
I get enough material in that every once in a while I get a package stamped that way.

Then again the coin is not out of line for a lot of 66's I have seen. Not that I think this coins been done that way, just a warning that in the future someone might pull a scam this way. Plus I dont think they would reholder it blindly since the tag could be moved so it may come back 65,67, or 64 AND I'm sure the reholder fee alone wont do it. Have to pay full boat for the regrade.

Looking at the photo I think its the coin that went with the original tag etc, but I got ya thinking didnt I?

kajdg657

Looks like it may be one of Russ' old coins. The post mark on the "package" is june 4 '07. He has a purchase from resco(I have had a couple beers tonight but am pretty sure this is Russ) on june 4 '07. What say you Russ? Former owner?

commoncents05

The return address label does say CompuCheap in Kent, WA. Sounds like a dead ringer for Russ.

-Paul

commoncents05

I once had the Post Office deliver this 1883 Proof Three Cent Piece NGC PR65 that I bought off eBay. Here's what it looked like when I opened the package:




After battling it out with my local window clerk, she allowed me to submit a claim for the whole value. The next day, I walk in, and she tells me they are going to deny the claim due to "improper packaging". I tell her that's BS, it was shipped in a bubble mailer and a cardboard mailer. She also told me that the coin would be destroyed if I claimed the entire amount, and I could submit a claim for the cost to fix it. The NGC holder was badly damaged, the coin was fine, but the label could be pulled out, so it had to be regraded, not reholdered. After going over her head and talking with the Postmaster about the grading process, and the fact the coin may come back a lower grade, we sent it to NGC, where it came back PR64. I submitted a claim for the difference between PR64 and PR65 Greysheet bid and the cost of the NGC grading, and shipping to and from. I got the check less than two weeks later.

-Paul

CopperWire

with liberty and justice for all. amen.

Russ

Ah, yes, I remember it well. I filled out my end of the Form 1000 and Express mailed it as well as the other documentation the buyer needed for the claim. I guess he never got around to it. I think I even posted a thread about it.

Russ, NCNE