Grading Competition Winners Announced!
HeatherBoyd
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Congratulations Jason Carter for taking 1st Place at the PCGS 2019 June Long Beach Expo Grading Competition! Mr. Carter will be donating his $1000 prize to The Magic Empire Coin Club!
Additional congratulations to our 2nd Place winner Marc Crane and our two 3rd Place Winners Devin Hipp and Andy Lustig!
An extra special congratulations to the winner of our Young Numismatist competition Rene! He also scored a 70% on the adult test (an above average percentage)!
Thank you to everyone who entered the competition, it was a great turn-out. We hope to see you all at the next one.
Heather Boyd
PCGS Senior Director of Marketing
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Jason is a class act
Nice job Andy!
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Congratulations!
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Nice work @MrEureka .
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Congratulations to all of the winners/award recipients!
Congrats @MrEureka and to all!!
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What grade is that trophy? SP?
If I won that trophy I would wear it to every coin show around my neck like Flava Flav
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Third place ain't bad, but I prefer to think that I would have taken first in the senior division.
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Congratulations to all the winners!
Congrats!!! Could you post the contest coins in another thread for us that didn't attend to see how good us "internet image experts" are? Or post the results of the contest, with the coins and the grades, plus the range of grade answers?
I think it could be educational.
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congrats all!
Congratulations to all the winners.... and that is an exceptional score for the YN Rene....Cheers, RickO
I remember a few years back taking the grading course and David Hall said “ anyone getting a score of 70 or higher can start work Monday”
No one should think this was easy - absolutely congrats to the winners!
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@HeatherBoyd
Great news! Congrats to all involved and thanks to PCGS for putting this on.
If you want to make another collectible, consider selling the contest coins in their contest slabs. I’m sure sample slab collectors would love to own these pieces of history!
@HeatherBoyd where can we find our individual results?
ps- I went right before jason and warmed up the hot seat for him.
Congratulations to Andy and the winners!
Coin's for sale/trade.
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I just flagged you. Such arrant misrepresentation of your status may require the attention of @HeatherBoyd , to whom I must apologize. This (despite external evidence to the contrary) still young (my criteria being Social Security eligibility) dealer's attempt to create a whole new category in this competition is blatantly and pathetically self-serving and perhaps itself a sign foreshadowing his need for the prize money. I hope our hosts will NOT be fooled.
Congrats to all.
Is Devin part of the extended Pennsylvania Eddie Hipps clan?
edited to add: Have they re-holdered the counterfeit 16-D 10c so the added mint-mark can be seen clearly again? The last couple of years the YN's thought someone was goofing on them.
No- Devin is his own awesomeness
I like the idea, but PCGS does in-hand grading. And it teaches in-hand grading. TrueView is coin appreciation, not gradable images. That's beyond everybody's capacity. To pretend otherwise would be, in my view, foolish. It's a local event, not a national contest. PCGS has already published PhotoGrade. Those are the pictures you want to tear apart and put back together again. They were chosen quite deliberately for a granularly organized hierarchy in serial form. And by series.
The quiz may change somewhat from year to year, but some golden oldies, like that classic fake, hopefully survive. For all we know, they alternate real and fake AG-3 16-D's every year. @HomeRunHall had an occasionally devilish sense of humor. Umm, pardon my false nostalgia
If the very flashy late S-mint five is still being used, it should remain as a delightful conundrum.
2024 predictions: 3rd - @joebb21. YN winner Liam Ratner or his younger brother. Newly inaugurated Seniors Division. 1st @cnncoins, 11th - @MrEureka. Harvey Stack congratulated Andy on almost catching him.
For an impressive list of other participants from this age cohort who were exclusively NJ born and bred besides the winner, consider others (who've all known each other since late puberty) - Sperber, Lipton, Salzberg, Albanese, Hendleson, Jesse Lipka, and Mickey Kumpf placing ahead of @MrEureka also. Sear (NJ born etc)), though younger than H. Stack (NY) (no longer substituting for Streiner (NY) in the general competition), came close but apparently fell asleep and never looked beyond item #37
Congrats to the winners! Will we be able to see pictures of the coins and grades, as well as the scoring rules?
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We will be scanning and emailing each contestants answer sheet back to them and TrueView images of the coins as well as their actual grades will be posted in the official press release which I will share to the board as soon as it is ready.
Heather Boyd
PCGS Senior Director of Marketing
Would you want a 70 percenter grading your coins?
They should have a similar contest for former graders.
SUPER Job all!
Congrats to all!
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You misspelled "current."
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