<< <i>My check for $1,000 to the person who comes the closest...
and nobody is close yet...
HRH >>
Seriously, the beer idea makes sense, you know it does
Actually, if I had to guess, based on what you mentioned at FUN I'd have to say it has something to do with original surfaces. I'd guess that you're going to designate coins with original surfaces as such?
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How about PCGS is going to use advanced imaging techniques and digital mapping to create accurate 3 dimensional computer images of the coins being graded. These images could be turned, rotated or whatever to examine the coin in detail from any perspective. Got to admit it would be cool.
PCGS has signed a deal with the US Mint, where the MInt ships freshly-minted coins directly to PCGS. Any coins grading less than MS or PR69 will be returned to the Mint for recycling. PCGS will market the coins only to collectors, thus eliminating the need for dealers in new US coinage.
$1000? Ok here are my guesses. Pcgs will be grading the "Black Swan" shipwreck coins. Pcgs will be grading the 10 "Langbord" 1933 saints. The U.S. mint will now be selling pcgs graded coins.
Make a much better attempt at some sort of pricing mechanism that would be available to collectors and dealers alike, something like the Greysheet but more up to date and available electronically if desired.
PCGS will set a market price floor on its graded coins, similar to the concept that the green sticker company does, therefore making stickers irrelevant. I am surprised that PCGS has not done anything to date to set prices for its graded coins.
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I'm torn -- not sure how to think big picture enough for this one. Perhaps it's the return of regency slabs, but taken a step further -- pcgs coin albums, with interlocking square 2x2 sealed slabs, made feasible with minimal fees for holdering (but no grade assigned) for the vast majority of "widgety" US coins?
I have no idea, but looking forward to the announcement!
PCGS will announce a new "conservation" service where they will be able to restore any worn/damaged/corroded/AT`d coin back to MS/PR condition no matter how severe it`s condition.
I think PCGS will do something along the lines of removing all possible air from the slabs making them completely air tite. I know there is a major problem with coins turning in the holders and air has a major factor to that turning.
Tom
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<< <i>Maybe they will become a bullion dealer, minting their own coin designs? >>
Maybe they will start minting the Silver Eagle proofs and change the design a bit each year from a vote of the CU members..... Life would be good. Better Coin designs for sure!
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PCGS will allow members to list their pcgs coins on their Cetified Coin Exchange thereby greatly expanding the market for coins offered both bid and ask and therby reflecting a truer price for both bid and ask.
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It wouldn't be something that would affect every coin they have graded in a way that you would want them all reslabbed--that would be a huge cluster. Logistical nightmare.
A new way, the next step, the big one??
Hmm, and only $1000.00 for guessing closest?--must not be a fantastic revenue generator.
Okay, here is a guess, and this would be only if you wanted it, not something that you felt coerced into participating in.
Drum roll please.........
Album page sized slabs for your coins obviously capable of holding many coins (as compared to one, or the somewhat available 4 coin multislab holders.)
Think replacing Dansco holders, Whitman holders, etc....you have your "collection" in a manageable and organized system rather than strewn all over creation in individual slabs.
Just a guess, but it would be nice to have a lot of PCGS coins in a reasonably small space to admire with less muss and fuss!!
A modified form of ground-penetrating radar that can look through the outer surface of a coin to see the core structure for authentication and dating of the coin and oxidation layer.
I bet thats closer to what it is than most including me have guessed... >>
But the East Coast is right field, not left field. PCGS is already in left field. >>
David's clue: "what we'll be doing comes from way out in left field." I suggested east coast to PCGS back in 2006, never got a reply.
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Slabs with tiny video screens so you can see exactly when and how your coin was graded, thus ending any question about authenticity or grade recieved.
PCGS has purchased the San Franciso mint and will produce Proofs themselves under contract with the US Government, and the best of the best will be marketed as MS71, made especially for collectors. First Strike will then truly be the FIRST strike, as in first coin made.
These MS71s will have a long waiting list, and sell for a very high amount of money, to be able to own the documented first coin made. Furthermore, PCGS will allow the person who made it to the top of the waiting list to come to the mint, make the first (of three{!}) strikes, and watch the coin being encapsulated.
PCGS will form it's own country where the only legal currency is slabbed. The more scratches it has, the less face value it will carry.
PCGS bought the ANA.
PCGS will moderate an American Idol like event to find new coin designs from the general public.
Some sort of device that when passed over a coin, it detects if the coin is a genuine example or a counterfit, thus making every single coin collector, dealer and investor need one in their possesion weather they collect PCGS, raw, non-PCGS graded coins or any combination of above. Said device would probably include lasers and a built in knowledge of all US coinage, with some sort of data jack for plug ins from other countries' coinage.
PCGS has convinced the government to make new, circulating coinage from gold and silver, the silver coin bearing a $100 value, the gold a $5000 value, used mainly for interbank purchases and as show-off items for athletes, limited to 100 coins struck a year. Any such coin not issued to circulation at the end of the year transfers to PCGS, which gets to grade it, sell it and keep the profits.
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it's going to be so off the wall , so outlandish ; every one's jaw is going to drop wide open .............
it's not going to deal with the grades or the holders , no ...........it's much bigger then that
<< <i>My check for $1,000 to the person who comes the closest...
and nobody is close yet...
HRH >>
Seriously, the beer idea makes sense, you know it does
Actually, if I had to guess, based on what you mentioned at FUN I'd have to say it has something to do with original surfaces. I'd guess that you're going to designate coins with original surfaces as such?
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Jim
Ok here are my guesses.
Pcgs will be grading the "Black Swan" shipwreck coins.
Pcgs will be grading the 10 "Langbord" 1933 saints.
The U.S. mint will now be selling pcgs graded coins.
<< <i>Pcgs will be grading the "Black Swan" shipwreck coins. >>
Oh wow, that would be sweet
I am still waiting for someone to do this!
K
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Never want to be like papa
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<< <i> At 1:00 on March 26, 2010 in a gathering place to be determined we will unveil the "next step"...the "new way"..."the big one." >>
This smells like one of the "Balloon Boy" press conferences.
Chinese counterfeits will be attributed to the counterfeiter.
Bounty for turning in coin doctors.
Full tuition scholarships to kids of CU board members having at least 7000 posts (excluding open forum posts) to the college of their choice.
Banks and credit unions will become PCGS submission centers.
Some sort of PCGS-points promotion whereby frequent submitters or registry participants can earn fabulous prizes or CLCT stock options.
PCGS employees will be allowed to wear Hawaiian shirts on Fridays if they pay $2 to a "charitable" fund (Chicago area people will get this one).
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I have no idea, but looking forward to the announcement!
Can't wait to hear.
Joe
Tom
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Or perhaps they're going to work with the Chinese government to raze the counterfeiter's locations.
<< <i>Maybe they will become a bullion dealer, minting their own coin designs? >>
Maybe they will start minting the Silver Eagle proofs and change the design a bit each year from a vote of the CU members..... Life would be good. Better Coin designs for sure!
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<< <i>My check for $1,000 to the person who comes the closest...
and nobody is close yet...
HRH >>
PCGS will begin to attribute all known die varieties even if they aren't in the Cherrypickers Guide. (Including the 1971-D RDV-006 IKE!
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I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
looking forward to the BIG ONE!
Let's see.....
It wouldn't be something that would affect every coin they have graded in a way that you would want them all reslabbed--that would be
a huge cluster. Logistical nightmare.
A new way, the next step, the big one??
Hmm, and only $1000.00 for guessing closest?--must not be a fantastic revenue generator.
Okay, here is a guess, and this would be only if you wanted it, not something that you felt coerced into participating in.
Drum roll please.........
Album page sized slabs for your coins obviously capable of holding many coins (as compared to one, or the somewhat available 4 coin multislab holders.)
Think replacing Dansco holders, Whitman holders, etc....you have your "collection" in a manageable and organized system rather than strewn all over creation in individual slabs.
Just a guess, but it would be nice to have a lot of PCGS coins in a reasonably small space to admire with less muss and fuss!!
bumanchu
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<< <i>PCGS will finally grade all Exonumia... especially Hard Times Tokens
I sure hope not. >>
I see nothing wrong with PCGS certifying Hard Times tokens andother exonumia, if they choose to do so.
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<< <i>PCGS will start grading D. Carr Ameros.
Joe >>
Slab or bag ??:
Thanks for the PM, HRH (not!!)
I don't know why I didn't think of that.....maybe its because I played shortstop and never toiled too long in LEFT field!!
Camelot
I bet thats closer to what it is than most including me have guessed...
<< <i><<East Coast branch of PCGS. >>
I bet thats closer to what it is than most including me have guessed... >>
But the East Coast is right field, not left field.
PCGS is already in left field, geographically speaking.
Either that, or an East Asia division...
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<< <i><<East Coast branch of PCGS. >>
I bet thats closer to what it is than most including me have guessed... >>
But the East Coast is right field, not left field.
PCGS is already in left field. >>
David's clue: "what we'll be doing comes from way out in left field."
I suggested east coast to PCGS back in 2006, never got a reply.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
PCGS payment clearing center much like PayPal
Pre-certification tiers.
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PCGS has purchased the San Franciso mint and will produce Proofs themselves under contract with the US Government, and the best of the best will be marketed as MS71, made especially for collectors. First Strike will then truly be the FIRST strike, as in first coin made.
These MS71s will have a long waiting list, and sell for a very high amount of money, to be able to own the documented first coin made. Furthermore, PCGS will allow the person who made it to the top of the waiting list to come to the mint, make the first (of three{!}) strikes, and watch the coin being encapsulated.
PCGS will form it's own country where the only legal currency is slabbed. The more scratches it has, the less face value it will carry.
PCGS bought the ANA.
PCGS will moderate an American Idol like event to find new coin designs from the general public.
Some sort of device that when passed over a coin, it detects if the coin is a genuine example or a counterfit, thus making every single coin collector, dealer and investor need one in their possesion weather they collect PCGS, raw, non-PCGS graded coins or any combination of above. Said device would probably include lasers and a built in knowledge of all US coinage, with some sort of data jack for plug ins from other countries' coinage.
PCGS has convinced the government to make new, circulating coinage from gold and silver, the silver coin bearing a $100 value, the gold a $5000 value, used mainly for interbank purchases and as show-off items for athletes, limited to 100 coins struck a year. Any such coin not issued to circulation at the end of the year transfers to PCGS, which gets to grade it, sell it and keep the profits.