Slab lovers and all people who dream and have joked about this kind of thing

kieferscoins · July 24, 2004 10:05AM

I know I have joked about a chocolate "coin" in a slab from one of the major services and I have heard others say the same thing more as a joke then something possible. Well, it happened in 2001 and by PCGS! This is NOT a doctored scan:

From a Gallery Mint Employee:

<< Remember, GMM struck the Central America Kellogg's in San Francisco. While doing so they stuck a foil covered chocolate in the tray and it got slabbed thusly! >>

LOL! Very cool!

Cameron Kiefer

Myqqy · July 24, 2004 10:08AM

I could see that ending up on ebay and being sold as the real deal, with a apology about the poor quality scan.....

Russ · July 24, 2004 10:09AM

I ain't buying it.

Russ, NCNE

kieferscoins · July 24, 2004 10:13AM

Its true Russ.

Cameron Kiefer

mozeppa · July 24, 2004 10:15AM

who's got it?

kyleknap · July 24, 2004 10:18AM

No more photoshop for you.

Kyle

Russ · July 24, 2004 10:20AM

Cammie will believe anything.

Russ, NCNE

kieferscoins · July 24, 2004 10:20AM

The Gallery Mint has it. It isn't photo shopped. It was scanned and its just a reflection off the slab at low resolution.

Cameron Kiefer

razorface1027 · July 24, 2004 10:24AM

Looks like one of those choclate coins in a slab.

Oh---you said that...DOH!

Sphinx357 · July 24, 2004 12:23PM

<< Its true Russ.

Cameron Kiefer >>

Now you're just making s*** up.

granddad · July 24, 2004 12:30PM

1855 restrike, dated 1852?

solid · July 24, 2004 12:33PM

Sweet!

100proof1957 · July 24, 2004 12:48PM

wouldnt they weight it or something ?
doubt that chocolate has the same specific gravity.

airplanenut · July 24, 2004 1:00PM

<< No more photoshop for you >>

Couldn't be photoshop... do you know how long it takes to teach Cameron a new program? It'd take a few years to teach him Photoshop

kieferscoins · July 24, 2004 1:17PM

Jeremy is right. He can't teach me simple web things let alone the whole photoshop program. This is real guys unless my source is lying to me which I don't believe is happening. I asked for better scans this evening.

Cameron Kiefer

Russ · July 24, 2004 1:19PM

<< unless my source is lying to me >>

Russ, NCNE

kieferscoins · July 24, 2004 1:22PM

How much you wanna bet Russ?

Cameron Kiefer

Sphinx357 · July 24, 2004 1:26PM

Russ · July 24, 2004 1:26PM

<< How much you wanna bet Russ?

Cameron Kiefer >>

Since you already said you won't believe David Hall's answer because he's always wrong, what's the point?

Russ, NCNE

kieferscoins · July 24, 2004 1:28PM

I never said that Russ. link the thread if you want from the open forum. I said 50% of the time he tells me to ask someone else. I didn't say he was always wrong. You are trying to pick a fight and I'm not going to get into it.

Cameron Kiefer

Russ · July 24, 2004 1:30PM

<< You are trying to pick a fight and I'm not going to get into it.

Cameron Kiefer >>

Too late.

Russ, NCNE

Russ · July 24, 2004 1:39PM

<< Russ did Cmmie really say that DH is usually wrong? >>

Yeah, it's over in the open forum.

<< Cammie I am surprised at you. >>

Surprised me also.

Russ, NCNE

kieferscoins · July 24, 2004 2:12PM

My name is NOT Cammie and I did NOT say that.

Cameroon Kiefer

clw54 · July 24, 2004 11:35PM

Cammy says it's real, Russ says it isn't. This calls for a bet.

MadMarty · July 24, 2004 11:50PM

Question submitted to Q&A...

clw54 · July 24, 2004 11:57PM

Time to contact Snopes.com.

Russ · July 25, 2004 2:58AM

David Hall is logged in right now.

Bump.

Russ, NCNE

clw54 · July 25, 2004 5:32AM

The title won't get his attention. It should be, "PCGS slabs chocolate coin."

cladking · July 25, 2004 5:48AM

The real problem is that real chocolate coin collectors will not want the coin unless
they are confident that there's chocolate in it. Anybody can slab one of these and
make it look real but the proof is in the seeing. Perhaps the grader was a little hun-
gry or needed something for his fingers. It isn't hard to imagine that he'd carefully
open the candy and eat the copper colored core. Then the empty husk could be re-
stored to its former shape and encapsulated. It looks like there a real cunundrum
here: open the slab and lose the value of the encapsulation and the only way to trust
its authenticity or leave it as is and make it worthless to a true chocolate coin collector.

Good luck.

MrEureka · July 25, 2004 6:03AM

Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with this thing if I could be reasonably confident that the chocolate used was recovered from the wreck of the SS Central America.

ksteelheader · July 25, 2004 6:29AM

<< You are trying to pick a fight and I'm not going to get into it. >>

Damn Wimp!!!!..

100proof1957 · July 25, 2004 6:51AM

i say send it to WWGS (willy wonka grading service) for xover and authentication !

steelheadbob · July 25, 2004 10:38AM

Are chocholate coins like fine wine? Do you need to establish they were kept at the proper humidity and temp?

earlwbollinger · July 25, 2004 11:30AM

You can weigh a slab with a chocolate coin on top, say use a penny slab.
Then take a penny and lay it on top of the slabbed candy coin, they should weigh almost the same.
Granted there might be a tiny bit of differences in how much chocolate and how much foil wrapper is used.
Thus you don't have to crack the slab.
Personally I don;t want to eat a many year old piece of chocolate myself. iI's like wanting to pop the cork on that 100 year old bottle of $50,000.00 wine.
Maybe it's vinegar maybe it's wine.

jom · July 25, 2004 11:40AM

Hmmmm....chocolate....

jom

dimples · July 26, 2004 3:41AM

It could be a white chocolate error gold foiled coin. Very very rare

dorkkarl · July 26, 2004 4:03AM

i think i saw emery norweb's fingerprint on the foil wrapper! wrong pedigree???

K S

BillF · July 26, 2004 4:42AM

Well, it IS PCGS and it ISN'T PCGS.

You are all getting your acronyms mixed up. All of you are thinking the PCGS means Profession COIN Grading Service, when for this case it is actually the Professional CHOCOLATE Grading Service.

Steve27 · July 26, 2004 6:01AM

I think someone is pulling Cammy's leg. That "coin" appears to on top of and not in the slab. Additionally, I could see PCGS slabbing it, but not with the regular insert.

kieferscoins · July 26, 2004 6:59AM

Its real. The Gallery Mint has it, and the slab is sealed with the chocolate coin inside.

Cameron Kiefer

XpipedreamR · July 26, 2004 7:09AM

<< I think someone is pulling Cammy's leg. That "coin" appears to on top of and not in the slab. Additionally, I could see PCGS slabbing it, but not with the regular insert. >>

Clearly

baccaruda · July 26, 2004 7:14AM

I have always dreamt of this, and I'm always a hit at parties when I joke about a chocolate coin in a plastic slab.

jonesy · July 26, 2004 7:16AM

solid · July 26, 2004 8:17AM

What's the big deal, here? PCGS slabs all sorts of things...

Steve27 · July 27, 2004 9:00PM

David Hall's reply to Marty's Q&A question as too whether PCGS slabbed it "Not as far as I know...unless someone did it as a joke."

kieferscoins · July 27, 2004 10:08PM

I told Russ David Hall wouldn't know. Stop calling me a liar guys and do some research yourself. Call the Gallery Mint and ask them.

Cameron Kiefer

Shamika · July 27, 2004 11:12PM

This is funny!

Sphinx357 · July 27, 2004 11:29PM

<< What's the big deal, here? PCGS slabs all sorts of things...

>>

Slab lovers and all people who dream and have joked about this kind of thing

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