What is the funnyist thing you have seen in a slab?

sinin1 · June 18, 2006 1:35AM

Either mechanical error or screw-up

major or wannabe slabbing companies (though because of potential slander/lawsuits skip menyioning the company)

I haven't seen but heard about

- a gallery mint copy that had been tooled and worn in a slab
- a 1916-D Mercury where the D became dislodged and was floating around in the slab

johnsim03 · June 18, 2006 1:38AM

<< Either mechanical error or screw-up

major or wannabe slabbing companies (though because of potential slander/lawsuits skip menyioning the company)

I haven't seen but heard about

- a gallery mint copy that had been tooled and worn in a slab
- a 1916-D Mercury where the D became dislodged and was floating around in the slab >>

Ancient coins which are misattributed in a slab - happens frequently. Have also heard stories about
hairs and other foreign matter being encased in the slab, along with the coin.

John

Conder101 · June 18, 2006 2:17AM

Well I have an ANACS slab with a fake 1871 Straits Settlements 5c in it ($1,500 coin if it was real.). It has an altered date, and not a very good job either.

And then of course there was the PCGS slab with the obscened off-center large cent. (It was actually a bodybagged coin that got slabbed by error.)

dunerlaw · June 18, 2006 3:12AM

snot, hair, clear plastic crackout shards (in a ms67 holder).
Also got a water filled old PCGS rattler from a heritage internet auction.

MadMarty · June 18, 2006 3:27AM

I heard that in Arkansas there is a chocolate coin in a PCGS slab.

09sVDB · June 18, 2006 3:28AM

A graded coin from an un-namable company?

Hyperion · June 18, 2006 3:29AM

kieferscoins · June 18, 2006 3:29AM

<< I heard that in Arkansas there is a chocolate coin in a PCGS slab. >>

From my slab files:

Before people start arguing that this picture is photoshopped let me tell you that IT IS NOT. The sugar in the choloate has actually leaked out of the foil and crystalized in the slab. I have held this coin in my hands and took the picture.

Cameron Kiefer

fivecents · June 18, 2006 3:36AM

What's wrong with this picture ?

majorbigtime · June 18, 2006 4:36AM

<< 
major or wannabe slabbing companies (though because of potential slander/lawsuits skip menyioning the company)

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For the sake of good order, please note that The Major does not have a grading company.

I believe some USS Central America recovered gold particles have been placed into coin slabs.

lkenefic · June 18, 2006 4:45AM

<< What's wrong with this picture ?

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lol

lkenefic · June 18, 2006 4:45AM

ANACS slabbed an eyelash in with my 1909-S Indian Head Cent...I sent it back to have it removed

techeff · June 18, 2006 5:24AM

RW · June 18, 2006 5:56AM

I think that fruit-fly in the slab on ebay a few months ago was pretty funny. "RARE Fruit-fly ERROR!" rofl

Conder101 · June 18, 2006 2:26PM

<< I believe some USS Central America recovered gold particles have been placed into coin slabs. >>

I can confirm that, I have one of them. (Interesting thing on the SS Central America, apparently the principals of the recovery company have taken the money an skipped out on their investors. The investors haven't seen the money from the sale of the gold, and Tommy Thompson and company have disappeared.)

Thenewguy · June 18, 2006 4:00PM

<< What's wrong with this picture ? >>

Dont remember ever playing basketball like that when I was in school.

ccex · June 18, 2006 4:11PM

I laughed when the postman brought me my winnings from an eBay auction: a no-questions original key date Fine 1896-O Barber Dime in a slab marked VG-10 from Accugrade.

brockdabadger · June 18, 2006 5:02PM

my collection after wife found it

LOL. Just kidding

Boom · June 18, 2006 5:14PM

A booger.

ttxp · June 18, 2006 9:34PM

<< A graded coin from an un-namable company? >>

Didn't that lawsuit just get tossed out of court?

<< I heard that in Arkansas there is a chocolate coin in a PCGS slab. >>

I want this slab, a "tasty mechanical error."

<< I believe some USS Central America recovered gold particles have been placed into coin slabs. >>

PCGS gold dust slab.

<< A booger. >>

what was the grade?

Tootawl · June 18, 2006 11:20PM

<< What's wrong with this picture ?

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Cool! Full contact basketball with weapons!

OffMetal · June 18, 2006 11:39PM

Fred Weinberg's Cricket Holder

FredWeinberg · June 19, 2006 12:20AM

Ben,

I just got in the office this morning, saw this thread,
was finishing reading prior posts before I mentioned
my holder, and your post was the last one on here!

It's probably at least 10-12 years old, but I have a
PCGS Holder with a real Cricket sealed inside of it!

According to the grader who gave it to me ("cause
you like weird errors and odd things"), it was in
the grading room one day, driving the graders
absolutely crazy with it's chirping; when someone
finally found it and caught it - they slabbed it........

It's buried someplace in one of safes; I'll scan it and
post it when I run across it again.......

Fred

ttxp · June 19, 2006 12:24AM

If anyone has one of these unusual slabs they could part with, I would love to know.

OffMetal · June 19, 2006 12:55AM

Hey ttxp,

VTCoins · June 19, 2006 12:58AM

Rat turd.

I had a customer bring in a box of slabs that was stored in a barn. Rats had eaten part of the box, and there were droppings on the slabs.

jbsteven · June 19, 2006 1:04AM

pubic hair

PerryHall · June 19, 2006 1:15AM

<< pubic hair >>

I hope that wasn't with a ASE with milk spots.

Connecticoin · June 19, 2006 1:16AM

ILikeMercs · June 19, 2006 1:16AM

ColonialCoinUnion · June 19, 2006 1:29AM

ttxp · June 19, 2006 1:32AM

Ben, the picture isn't clear enough to determine if the Ct slab has a MM error? Otherwise what am I missing here?

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OffMetal · June 19, 2006 1:34AM

You are missing a lot, ttxp

LOOK CLOSER!!

airplanenut · June 19, 2006 1:36AM

I have one of their Collector's Club US Flag quarters... it's a Kentucky... but in a VT holder...

ttxp · June 19, 2006 1:41AM

Thud, I got it, PGCS, screwed up their name, duh............

mfcobra · June 19, 2006 1:41AM

PGCS!

ttxp · June 19, 2006 1:49AM

I myself have picked up in the last 2 weeks a few new mechanical error (quality control problem) slabs. An NGC Proof 1964 Kennedy Quarter? A 1957 ANACS FSB dime with a 1959 in it? And an NGC 2002 West Point Dollar in a 2002 Olympics slab?

In all these instances, buy the slab and not the coin.

WTCG · June 19, 2006 3:26AM

Recently I saw a PCI slab that had a long, greasy hair that was partially sticking out of the side of the slab on one end and wrapped around the reverse of the coin inside the slab on the other end.

CoinRaritiesOnline · June 19, 2006 5:10AM

<< Recently I saw a PCI slab that had a long, greasy hair that was partially sticking out of the side of the slab on one end and wrapped around the reverse of the coin inside the slab on the other end. >>

I don't know whether to be intrigued or repelled!

caitlin · June 19, 2006 5:26AM

An ms69 2001 1$ Silver Eagle from the PCGS Collectors Club Edition with 2004 date printed on the lable.

drwstr123 · June 19, 2006 9:42AM

If you look closly, there's a black hair comming from Lincoln's nose:

ttxp · June 19, 2006 10:31AM

<< An ms69 2001 1$ Silver Eagle from the PCGS Collectors Club Edition with 2004 date printed on the lable. >>

Surprisingly that is not a difficult slab to find, a number of the "sample slabs" handed out also have errors, another that jumps to mind is the misspelled PCGS Louisiana Quarter, they spelled it Loiusiana.

I have email images of my Loiusiana if folks are interested but not uploaded to this CU FTP server.

PCGS 2004 Slab With 2001 Inside

The Famous Rabbit Dollar Error Slab

What is the funnyist thing you have seen in a slab?

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