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Coinfacts record holder?

MarkMark Posts: 3,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
I was amusing myself looking at pictures of Wisconsin commemoratives on Coinfacts and found I wonder might be a record breaking coin, one with at least 9 and maybe 10 separate pictures and separate certification numbers. Each time it was submitted, it graded MS67, which I think is a testament to our host's consistency in grading. It's also a testament to at least one collector's view that the coin is better than a 67.



Are there any coins in Coinfacts with more than 9 (or 10) pictures? Or is this coin perhaps the record holder?





For what it's worth, here is a link to the Coinfacts pictures. The 9 certification numbers I am very confident reflect the same coin (check the diagonal toning lines under "domini" ) start with the second coin in the MS67 group and are

25226287, 30773982, 25312509, 25320866, 25362272, 25369989, 25024271, 25511301, 25543960, 20604893



I think this coin is the same but I'm not totally certain:

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Mark


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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,606 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The little crescent over the arm is what drew my eyes.



    Someone brought this up a few days ago, I believe it was just under/over 10 images of the same coin.



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  • WinLoseWinWinLoseWin Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭✭✭




    These go to 11. At least that is how many I counted.



    What is going on with one of the MS-66's that has a world gold coin for a photo.



    I kind of like the VF-25 at the bottom.







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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow. This would be an easy way for PCGS to clean up the pops -- have an intern comb through the images and delete all the cert numbers with the same image except the latest one!
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is quite the investment in cert fees.... image Cheers, RickO
  • BGBG Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice coin.



    Multiple buyers and multiple attempts at a plus or 68 grade.



  • planetsteveplanetsteve Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BG
    Very nice coin.

    Multiple buyers and multiple attempts at a plus or 68 grade.



    ...with none of them willing to submit for regrade or reconsideration -- at least for these attempts -- right?

    They could at least send the old labels in. image
  • BGBG Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: planetsteve

    Originally posted by: BG

    Very nice coin.



    Multiple buyers and multiple attempts at a plus or 68 grade.







    ...with none of them willing to submit for regrade or reconsideration -- at least for these attempts -- right?



    They could at least send the old labels in. image




    You're right. When folks have to give some effort to do anything, the couch potato effect, lazy, is too strong to overcome.



  • robecrobec Posts: 6,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: planetsteve

    Originally posted by: BG

    Very nice coin.



    Multiple buyers and multiple attempts at a plus or 68 grade.







    ...with none of them willing to submit for regrade or reconsideration -- at least for these attempts -- right?



    They could at least send the old labels in. image




    If sent in for regrade service still in the slab, wouldn't PCGS already have the old label?



    Do you think these were cracked out each time? I can't imagine this coin continuously being cracked out while in a 67 holder.
  • david3142david3142 Posts: 3,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The most amusing thing about that page to me is that the obverse and reverse order keeps switching!

    There are some phenomenal 68+ coins at the top of that link, too.
  • joebb21joebb21 Posts: 4,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i can think of one coin that has 12 pictures on coinfacts
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  • WinLoseWinWinLoseWin Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: david3142



    The most amusing thing about that page to me is that the obverse and reverse order keeps switching!








    I wondered about that too. Is it related to which side is face up in the holder or do they keep switching which side they consider to be the obverse?





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  • AblinkyAblinky Posts: 628 ✭✭✭
    People just never know when to quit sometimes.

    Andrew Blinkiewicz-Heritage

  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Questions:



    Do all of the TrueView photos of coins end up in Coin Facts??

    And when did they start offering that service?





    I recently ran ALL of my PCGS coins through the Cert Verification, just hoping to find a TrueView photo or two. None. Well over 100 coins, and not one has been TrueViewed.



    Not sure if that says something about my collection quality, the age of them, or the cheapness of the submitters. (Maybe a little of each). image







    Seems like a worthy exercise to pay some intern to go through the photos and recommend some for deletion? It would help "fix" the population reports, and remove some of the redundancy on their server.....
    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TommyType

    Questions:



    Do all of the TrueView photos of coins end up in Coin Facts??

    And when did they start offering that service?




    No.



    What service are you referring to? Coinfacts? True Views?

    Lance.
  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: lkeigwin

    Originally posted by: TommyType

    Questions:



    Do all of the TrueView photos of coins end up in Coin Facts??

    And when did they start offering that service?




    No.



    What service are you referring to? Coinfacts? True Views?

    Lance.




    Was referring to when they started offering TrueView photos. If they don't automatically all go to Coinfacts, it doesn't really matter what the date was....



    How do they determine which photos go into CoinFacts? There does seem to be a mix of "spectacular" high grades, and "average" circulated coins there, (though, tilted toward the high end).
    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: robec
    Originally posted by: planetsteve
    Originally posted by: BG
    Very nice coin.

    Multiple buyers and multiple attempts at a plus or 68 grade.



    ...with none of them willing to submit for regrade or reconsideration -- at least for these attempts -- right?

    They could at least send the old labels in. image


    If sent in for regrade service still in the slab, wouldn't PCGS already have the old label?

    Do you think these were cracked out each time? I can't imagine this coin continuously being cracked out while in a 67 holder.


    It had to have been to get TrueViews, correct? The graders probably recognized the coin each time it came through image
  • MarkMark Posts: 3,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Connecticoin:



    Maybe the owner kept submitting until he got a TrueView he liked?



    image
    Mark


  • brg5658brg5658 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There was one coin in that listing not like the others? This is the most interesting 1936 50C commem I have ever seen...



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  • BGBG Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: robec

    Originally posted by: planetsteve

    Originally posted by: BG

    Very nice coin.



    Multiple buyers and multiple attempts at a plus or 68 grade.







    ...with none of them willing to submit for regrade or reconsideration -- at least for these attempts -- right?



    They could at least send the old labels in. image




    If sent in for regrade service still in the slab, wouldn't PCGS already have the old label?



    Do you think these were cracked out each time? I can't imagine this coin continuously being cracked out while in a 67 holder.




    Good point.
  • AstroJoeAstroJoe Posts: 309 ✭✭✭
    If this and other coins have multiple cert numbers for the same coin, this would throw off the populations.

    So if population show more that actually are, would the price artificially go down?

    The price would go back up when trying locate the coin, and realizing how scarce it is at that condition?
    Joe

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  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Connecticoin

    Originally posted by: robec

    Originally posted by: planetsteve

    Originally posted by: BG

    Very nice coin.



    Multiple buyers and multiple attempts at a plus or 68 grade.







    ...with none of them willing to submit for regrade or reconsideration -- at least for these attempts -- right?



    They could at least send the old labels in. image




    If sent in for regrade service still in the slab, wouldn't PCGS already have the old label?



    Do you think these were cracked out each time? I can't imagine this coin continuously being cracked out while in a 67 holder.




    It had to have been to get TrueViews, correct? The graders probably recognized the coin each time it came through image



    No. They were all regrades...submitted in the holder, cracked by PCGS, True View imaged, and reholdered.



    Check the cert#s. Only the topmost one is in the database (25226287). PCGS deleted the others but never took down the Coinfacts pictures.



    It is also possible that the owner did the cracking and returned the old certs. But the fact that the grade never varied makes that possibility extremely unlikely.

    Lance.
  • SteveSteve Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TommyType

    Questions:



    Do all of the TrueView photos of coins end up in Coin Facts??

    And when did they start offering that service?





    I recently ran ALL of my PCGS coins through the Cert Verification, just hoping to find a TrueView photo or two. None. Well over 100 coins, and not one has been TrueViewed.



    Not sure if that says something about my collection quality, the age of them, or the cheapness of the submitters. (Maybe a little of each). image







    Seems like a worthy exercise to pay some intern to go through the photos and recommend some for deletion? It would help "fix" the population reports, and remove some of the redundancy on their server.....




    Tommy,

    My understanding is that currently, IF you pay for a TRU VIEW picture of your coin while having the coin either graded or reholdered PCGS will include the coin in Coin Facts. If you have never had any of your coins TRU VIEWED by PCGS, then obviously, the coin will not be put in Coin Facts. I'm not sure exactly when this process started so probably a number of earlier TRU VIEWED coins may not be in Coin Facts.

    Steveimage
  • robecrobec Posts: 6,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: lkeigwin

    Originally posted by: Connecticoin

    Originally posted by: robec

    Originally posted by: planetsteve

    Originally posted by: BG

    Very nice coin.



    Multiple buyers and multiple attempts at a plus or 68 grade.







    ...with none of them willing to submit for regrade or reconsideration -- at least for these attempts -- right?



    They could at least send the old labels in. image




    If sent in for regrade service still in the slab, wouldn't PCGS already have the old label?



    Do you think these were cracked out each time? I can't imagine this coin continuously being cracked out while in a 67 holder.




    It had to have been to get TrueViews, correct? The graders probably recognized the coin each time it came through image



    No. They were all regrades...submitted in the holder, cracked by PCGS, True View imaged, and reholdered.



    Check the cert#s. Only the topmost one is in the database (25226287). PCGS deleted the others but never took down the Coinfacts pictures.



    It is also possible that the owner did the cracking and returned the old certs. But the fact that the grade never varied makes that possibility extremely unlikely.

    Lance.


    Two of the certs are still active, 25226287 and 20604893



  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Two of the certs are still active, 25226287 and 20604893




    Ha. You're right, Bob. First and last ones. I guess the first was a crack-out (with no returned cert) and the owner played it safe by regrading the rest.



    Funny too that the poor fellow paid for so many TV's. Clearly he wanted one tied to the latest submission, maybe for a registry?



    OTOH, maybe he TV'd only 11 of the many more submissions. image

    Lance.
  • planetsteveplanetsteve Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭✭
    I thought Regrades keep the same cert number...
  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nah. They're cracked and new numbers are assigned.



    This is the trend at PCGS. Used to be they'd keep the same cert numbers. Even for conserved coins. Nowadays new numbers are assigned for reconsiderations that upgrade, all regrades...anything that's been touched. Maybe a good thing.

    Lance.

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