Strangest things sent to PCGS to encapsulate

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Zoins
Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 14, 2017 10:53PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Just ran across this. What are some other strange things that have been sent to PCGS to encapsulate?

Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
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  • Coin Finder
    Coin Finder Posts: 7,805 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not really a mint error!! LOL

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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

  • DIMEMAN
    DIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ricko said:
    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. ;)

  • RogerB
    RogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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.

  • GRANDAM
    GRANDAM Posts: 8,785 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Well if you look at the strip compared to the flip I would say the size is 7" x 3 3/4".

    GrandAm :)
  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    True...but that is NOT what is on the label....and that is my point. Cheers, RickO

  • lkeigwin
    lkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Strangest things sent to PCGS to encapsulate...

    We saw this not too long ago.
    Lance.

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  • keets
    keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    so..........................it isn't a Mint error but it is an error insert??

  • RogerB
    RogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    ...and we all KNOW that labels don't lie and we have to "buy the label not the coin!" ;)

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 14, 2017 4:39PM
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    I have to wonder what holder they would have used if "DO NOT HOLDER" wasn't on the insert!

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • illini420
    illini420 Posts: 11,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Zoins said:
    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:

    :+1:

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  • illini420
    illini420 Posts: 11,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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.

    :)

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  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 14, 2017 11:09PM
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    It's cool that LIBERTY is fully present and well positioned on the nail.

    Here's something I didn't realize PCGS would slab:

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • leothelyon
    leothelyon Posts: 8,568 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have a few Victorian era gold plated buttons........anyone know if PCGS encapsulates those?

    Leo

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  • FredWeinberg
    FredWeinberg Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I didn't 'send' it to PCGS, but it was 'in' PCGS
    when encapsulated ---

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  • PCGSPhoto
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    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.

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  • dmwest
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    @CoinsAndMoreCoins said:

    @PCGSPhoto said:
    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.

    without pictures, it never happened!!!

    I'm sure they have pictures....that will never ever be seen by the general public.....

    Don't quote me on that.

  • leothelyon
    leothelyon Posts: 8,568 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 16, 2017 10:26AM
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    @Zoins said:
    Just ran across this. What are some other strange things that have been sent to PCGS to encapsulate?

    @Zoins said:
    Just ran across this. What are some other strange things that have been sent to PCGS to encapsulate?

    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 :smiley:

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  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    i never understood why some sent things in like that but thats just me. jmo

  • DNADave
    DNADave Posts: 7,350 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 16, 2017 12:23PM
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    @CoinsAndMoreCoins said:

    @PCGSPhoto said:
    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.

    without pictures, it never happened!!!

    :* Google has it all !

  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @PCGSPhoto said:
    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.

    I wonder if that was the piece I once sold, or another like it?

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