1949-D Franklin Toner

MonsterCoinz

Last month, kryptonitecomics listed a beautiful PCI toned Franklin. It went for $457 and I figured it would be cracked out and sent to our host or NGC.



1949-D Franklin Monster - eBay



I was looking to see where this went, and lo and behold, it's on Amazon. Oh, and for $9k.



1949-D Franklin - Amazon





What do you think of the new "attribution", "error" and grade?

keyman64

"Fiduciary Grading & Attribution" Seriously?!

asheland

Kyle

Does anyone buy coins off Amazon?

garrynot

A gouger can't make an honest buck these days.

TomB

They can price it however they want, but it looks to me like the original PCI slab had been heated with the coin in the holder.

grip

Hideous

AngryTurtle

Originally posted by: TomB
They can price it however they want, but it looks to me like the original PCI slab had been heated with the coin in the holder.

Had not heard of that trick, but by George, (or Tom), I believe you are right!

bigjpst

Yup the yellow label is kinda telling.

SkyMan

I thought it was ridiculously overpriced when it hammered at KC's.

planetsteve

Originally posted by: bigjpst
Yup the yellow label is kinda telling.

I didn't know until recently that it was possible to AT a coin in a slab simply by heating it up. I guess I always assumed that the plastic of the slab would deform first. (Or, here, the label looks toasted.)

Has PCGS or anyone else considered adding tamper-evident features to reveal this kind of fraud? Or is this kind of doctoring considered too obvious to bother addressing?

halfhunter

Windowsill toning.



HH

Ronyahski

Actually these old PCI holders did not need any accelerants like heat. Apparently the plastic used for the holders was not inert or airtight. Coins turned this way in the holder without any prodding. I still have a of couple of them. As I recall, purple was the dominant color on coins that turned in PCI holders.