Strangest things sent to PCGS to encapsulate
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Just ran across this. What are some other strange things that have been sent to PCGS to encapsulate?
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Not really a mint error!! LOL
I know the label must be in error... since it cannot be 7 FEET by 3 3/4 FEET... As the label indicates...and it is either from 1943 cents or the color is way off.... Cheers, RickO
It does state 1943 for date.
That would take a BIG plastic slab at 7 FEET by 3 3/4 FEET ! Heck, it would need its own table at a coin show.
Or it could be the table at a coin show.
Well if you look at the strip compared to the flip I would say the size is 7" x 3 3/4".
True...but that is NOT what is on the label....and that is my point. Cheers, RickO
Strangest things sent to PCGS to encapsulate...
We saw this not too long ago.
Lance.
so..........................it isn't a Mint error but it is an error insert??
...and we all KNOW that labels don't lie and we have to "buy the label not the coin!"
During WW2 the Denver Mint found that it could not conveniently recycle the steel webbing it had punched 1943 cents blanks out of, and so they sold quantities of it to a builder who was putting up wartime housing. The quality of the plywood the builder was getting was so poor that he was using the steel webbing to reinforce the roofs of the houses.
Fast forward to the 1960's and 70's when these houses were getting new roofs and having the old ones torn off first. Some of the roofers discovered that they could get a small premium for it from coin dealers rather than just selling it to a scrap yard, though I imagine that a lot of it did get melted. Some of it got cut up into convenient sizes like this and sold to collectors. It is not rare.
TD
I have to wonder what holder they would have used if "DO NOT HOLDER" wasn't on the insert!
They'd use a big PSA holder... this strip must have been too big or they otherwise didn't want to holder it for some reason. I've posted this in another thread before... saw it posted by a dealer on Facebook not too long ago:
Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448
Note that this one was not apparently sent in as a "mint error" and PCGS knew the difference between inches and feet at the time.
Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448
It's cool that LIBERTY is fully present and well positioned on the nail.
Here's something I didn't realize PCGS would slab:
I have a few Victorian era gold plated buttons........anyone know if PCGS encapsulates those?
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection
I didn't 'send' it to PCGS, but it was 'in' PCGS
when encapsulated ---
for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
Just a few weeks ago someone submitted a Flying Eagle Cent and requested a photo.
The coin had been long ago graffitied in such a way that it was no longer the flying eagle, but flying male anatomy.
Needless to say we did not holder it.
Radiant Collection: Numismatics and Exonumia of the Atomic Age.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase/3232
I'm sure they have pictures....that will never ever be seen by the general public.....
Don't quote me on that.
At first I didn't believe this is scrap from punching out planchets for the steel cent and likely steel scrap from punching out washers for nuts and bolts. The planchet holes look larger in comparison with the label and a Lincoln cent I placed on a slab holder label in front of me. But then I remembered, they must really round up the planchet when they make the edges.
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection
i never understood why some sent things in like that but thats just me. jmo
I wonder if that was the piece I once sold, or another like it?