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Anyone know the melting point of a PCGS insert??

LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Is this heat damage??

Melted insert??
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    CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭✭
    There is a dealer on the coin circuit who has been hauling around a NJ Copper in a PCGS holder with a melted insert for years.

    It apparently happened when sitting on a dashboard (no idea of the temperature, or circumstances, or security implications of putting a coin on your dash).
    John Agre

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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,262 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm sure one of our members will test an OGH in the oven with a meat thermometer and give us the answer, but it won't be me. I'm not a lab guy image

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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Halogen lights used for photography will melt a slab if left unattended...

    Not sure of the exact melting point but Lakesammman if you send me a sample slab I'll test it! image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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    OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not sure, but years and years ago I set up at a swap meet
    here in Southern Cal and it was about 90' degrees or more
    and I had a few early proof sets in Capitals sitting in my allstate
    case and it just warped the hell out of them and melded the
    plastic nut and bolts together, it was'nt a pretty lessonimage

    Steve

    Thinking back it was probably more like a 100' degrees in the direct sun
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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Broadstruck:

    Thanks for the offer - you'll probably need to test every generation of insert?? image
    Gone but not forgotten: IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal, CoinsAreFun.
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Broadstruck:

    Thanks for the offer - you'll probably need to test every generation of insert?? image >>



    Send em all Lakesammman! image
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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had some dimes go that route made the mistake of sitting them on the floor about a foot from the baseboard heater in a apartment I lived in for a while. They were in a blue PCGS box and it did not hurt the box or burn me when I picked them up. So it does not take a great amount of heat, BTW sent the 96-W in for re-holder and it 's as good as new now.
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    stevebensteveben Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i don't know, but at that price, i'd leave it on the table. i'd be into it for about $750.
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    stevebensteveben Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭✭✭
    oh, they won't take 750 for it. oh well.
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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,799 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>There is a dealer on the coin circuit who has been hauling around a NJ Copper in a PCGS holder with a melted insert for years.

    It apparently happened when sitting on a dashboard (no idea of the temperature, or circumstances, or security implications of putting a coin on your dash). >>



    It's ok - it was a colonial...most thieves would just go "huh?"

    Or "ewwwwww". image
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    robecrobec Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This returned home like this after a lengthy photo contest. Probably caused by an extended layover under the lights.

    image

    - Bob -

    MPL's - Lincolns of Colorimage
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    renomedphysrenomedphys Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This returned home like this after a lengthy photo contest. Probably caused by an extended layover under the lights.

    image >>


    Yeah, I remeber that. Came to me that way is all I can say image

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    mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    well I have seen a PCGS coin like the one Robec posted but worse melt under natural sun light at a swap meet held outdoors in hawaii
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TwoSides2aCoin, Has agreed to send me PCGS slabbed coins for melt time and melting point temperature testing image
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,262 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I admit it's true image

    Practice makes perfect & nobody is perfect. So, practice being nobody.

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    ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    451 degrees Fahrenheit
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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Broadstruck:

    Tell us about the experimental set up - is it more sophisticated than an easy bake oven?? image
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    LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,756 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>451 degrees Fahrenheit >>

    Fahrenheit 451? image
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    BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    I thought that was what reholder Quarterly Specials were for! One melted holder reholdered for free in a fresh new SecurePlus holder.image
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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>451 degrees Fahrenheit >>



    Were not burning money just melting rubber.
    image
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