Does anyone collect PCGS mechanical errors

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• kieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭

  October 31, 2005 10:05PM

  There is a small market. The more valuable ones are where there is more than one error on the label. A single mechanical error like a wrong date might bring $10-15 over the coins value while a slab with 3 errors, wrong date, mintmark and denomination might bring $40 over the value.
  
  Cameron Kiefer

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• Gandyjai Posts: 1,380 ✭✭

  October 31, 2005 10:43PM

  
  I have a few Ikes I got real excited about when I checked my grades on an invoice......they
  said I had made (4) 1974-S MS69's!
  I was only excited for a minute,....the submisssion was for PROOF coins not MS.
  Does PCGS "frown upon" some one selling a mislabeled coin as long as they are not
  trying to pass it off as a correctly labeled one?
  I was thinking of putting one on eBay to see what it would bring, but don't want to "upset"
  any one at PCGS.
  Any advice would be appreciated.
  
  Brian
  
  I LOVE IKES!

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• ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭

  October 31, 2005 11:21PM

  Yup, I do..
  
  I have about 10 or so PCGS and about 8 between the other services.
  
  This one is my fav PCGS error and as an extra bonus the grader threw in a nose hair..
  
  
  
  
  
  
  this one is my all time favorite and my most expensive error slab
  
  Not only can't that company grade, they can't spell either
  
  
  
  
  
  Herb

  Remember it's not how you pick your nose that matters, it's where you put the boogers.
  

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• LanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 31, 2005 11:32PM

  
  
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  I coulda lived without this comment

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• oreville Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 1, 2005 1:38AM

  This is the granddaddy of PCGS mechanical errors, You would NOT believe how much (and how often) I have been offered for this slab. It is NOT for sale.
  
  

  A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!

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• oreville Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 1, 2005 1:43AM

  Here is a favorite of mine. I purchased it from a fellow board member here. How often do you get to see Booker T Washington shake hands?
  Obviously, I collect mechanical errors. As long as they are collected with a nice sense of humor, PCGS is pretty cool about it too.
  
  

  A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!

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• FatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭

  November 1, 2005 4:35AM

  Here's mine
  
  

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• relayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

  November 1, 2005 5:44AM

  
  
  << <i>There is a small market. The more valuable ones are where there is more than one error on the label. A single mechanical error like a wrong date might bring $10-15 over the coins value while a slab with 3 errors, wrong date, mintmark and denomination might bring $40 over the value. >>
  
  Dang, all this time I've been spending return postage to get them fixed

  
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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 1, 2005 5:48AM

  
  
  
  Bawh haw haw haw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• Wingsrule Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭✭

  November 1, 2005 9:50AM

  Herb,
  
  Cool Merc!!

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• DRUNNER Posts: 3,897 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 1, 2005 9:55AM

  Yes . . . .
  
  My favorite is a Lexington (64) in a Sesqui holder. Problem is . . . the thing has been tried twice for a 65 . . . seems to be a lock, but I don't want to send it in again and lose my mechanical error . . . paid about a $50 premium for it.
  
  Also a couple NGC mis-dates . . .
  
  Drunner

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• ScarsdaleCoin Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 1, 2005 10:30AM

  I love em.....if you ever have any to sell please offer to me!!!! thanks....

  Jon Lerner - Scarsdale Coin - www.CoinHelp.com

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• Gandyjai Posts: 1,380 ✭✭

  November 2, 2005 11:04AM

  I thought I has 74-S's.....Dug them out and they turned out to be 73-S's
  Here is one:

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