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The BIG ONE, lasering the grade INTO the field of the coin!

OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
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Enough with the nonsensical speculation about DRECK and PQ designations! image
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Gary

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image Or perhaps a service for lasering coins to achieve a more perfect surface.... image (We will guarantee a two point grade jump..) Cheers, RickO
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And what if it is wrong, then what?
    theknowitalltroll;
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,860 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think the hobby would ever accept marking their coins with names or serial numbers no matter how small or well hidden.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    youre just being silly now.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't think the hobby would ever accept marking their coins with names or serial numbers no matter how small or well hidden. >>



    Agree.

    Each time this subject comes up I can't help but wonder what folks must be thinking? Are they not aware that coins downgrade or upgrade or even get misgraded and misattributed?
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK - here we go - PCGS has determined a non-destructive way to label coins.

    Museums have been doing this for a long time - they can label coins with ink that dissolves in acetone. It's ugly but it works.

    Suppose PCGS can now do the same thing electronically - so that the label can't be seen with the naked eye, but it's there & can be altered with the right equipment.
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  • OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Perry, are you really taking this thread as being a serious guess?!? WOW! image
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    Gary
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,860 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Perry, are you really taking this thread as being a serious guess?!? WOW! image >>



    I know you are kidding but some have seriously proposed to mark coins similar to the way diamonds are marked with a micro serial number.

    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

  • PrethenPrethen Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭
    Actually, it's not an entirely bad idea of implemented properly. I'm pretty sure, scientifically it's possible to laser (at a molecular level?) an identification code (or whole series of codes) somewhere such as the rim as to be completely invisible to the human eye but readable by the right type of machine. Why not? This would basically permanently dog tag the coin (it could have descriptive data or just a code) such that no one could ever switch or fake the identification of such a coin without trying to mechanically overwrite the data already there. Just a thought. Okay...flame away!
  • dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't think the hobby would ever accept marking their coins with names or serial numbers no matter how small or well hidden. >>


    I agree 100%
    Positive BST transactions with: too many names to list! 36 at last count.
  • okracerokracer Posts: 436 ✭


    << <i>I don't think the hobby would ever accept marking their coins with names or serial numbers no matter how small or well hidden. >>



    ...Actually, that is interesting.....in another hobby - Arrowhead Collecting - it is quite common and accepted to have writing on the artifact. Many times, people will mark where the item was found, an ID # of some sort, their name, etc.

    ...with artifacts like those, when they sell, people make a big deal about NOT taking the markings off.



    Editted for spelling!

    ......I collect old stuff......
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I don't think the hobby would ever accept marking their coins with names or serial numbers no matter how small or well hidden. >>



    ...Actually, that is interesting.....in another hobby - Arrowhead Collecting - it is quite common and accepted to have writing on the artifact. Many times, people will mark where the item was found, an ID # of some sort, their name, etc.

    ...with artifacts like those, when they sell, people make a big deal about NOT taking the markings off.



    Editted for spelling! >>







    Apples and Oranges!

    Might as well add that its ok to clean and restore collectible cars! image
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Invisible hologram information embedded onto the surface of the coin, authorized PCGS dealers will have to get a PCGS cyborg eye to reveal the authentication hologram.
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  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    Engraving tiny initials or coloring edge reeds was sometimes used by "big time" collectors a century or so ago.
    Some museums use the reeds as binary equivelents for accession numbers.

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