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Did the BIG ONE match what you expected?

seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
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Did the BIG ONE match what you expected?
I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.

Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.

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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Some of it didn't surprise me too much, but I was hoping there was going to be more action on protection against fake coins in fake PCGS holders.
  • DRUNNERDRUNNER Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK, I admit I had the sniffles too, but I stayed home from work today so I could get the news and then see the Forum reaction.

    I'll withhold any other subjective comments.

    Drunner
  • MoldnutMoldnut Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭
    This was like the main event fight and one fighter plays nothing but defense.
    Derek

    EAC 6024
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This was like the main event fight and one fighter plays nothing but defense. >>

    Hey, the rope-a-dope worked well for Muhammad Ali....
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    Yes it met my expectations, but I wasn't expecting much.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had guarded expectations, and they were exceeded. It just won't affect me much.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,733 ✭✭✭✭✭
    IIRC you pretty much nailed the digital fingerprinting part of the announcement, Jason. When I saw your post on the topic I thought it made a lot of sense and I'm not at all surprised to see it. The plus-grading also makes a lot of business sense for PCGS so I can't say I'm surprised by it either.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    What PCGS released today was a good idea but not worthy of the suspense. I really did not spend anytime thinking what the big one was going to be because i could not see any earth shattering new ideas coming.

    Overall a good thing but basicly useless to me.
    Mark
    NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
    working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!

    RIP "BEAR"
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,846 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yes it met my expectations, but I wasn't expecting much. >>



    Same here. I voted yes since I said it wouldn't live up to the hype and I was right.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    I figured a part of the announcement would be a digital finger print and said so in the big thread; I have been using LIDAR technology to create detail terain models for years. On March 05 I said this:

    <<The "buzz" is about computer grading, but nobody has offered an explaination of how it will work. Here goes:

    PCGS has purchased LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) technology to scan every coin submitted to create a digital terrain model (DTM) of the coin. These 3D models will then be compared to the models of "standard coins" already scanned to determine the grade of the coin. This technology will allow the graders to measure every aspect of the coins surface; it will be like taking a million micrometer measurements of the coin surface. This will eliminate the "human subjectiveness" from the grading equation.

    This will also stop the crack out game because the scans will not change unless the coin surface changes which will cause a downgrade to occur.

    Coupled with a new holder of any kind to create new population reports.

    Every coin previously slabbed will need to be resubmitted to get this designation which will increase revenues to PCGS which is good for shareholders.>>

    i think I was pretty close.image
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    is there not one person who felt this exceeded what they expected?
    I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

    Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.

    Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    Yawn. Yup. I must have missed it...looking for how the "more precise and consistent grading" is gonna happen. What this say about peviusly graded coins I don't know...They can do all that, detection of putty and "improved detection of doctored coins" but...what of red copper? Ah. Yawn. I don't "submit" so it don't matter to me. I am going to do just as I predicted - I am still going to buy the coins I can afford that fit into my criteria. Call me crazy but I think I like the "human subjectiveness" of grading where it is. Imagine this applied to paintings. There are several technically great works by Vermeer, chemically wonderful and stable, but they don't hold a candle to other works by him on a "subjective" level.

    Best,
    Eric
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    Yes. Its was so far out in left field I dont see how anyone could have thought of it.
  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    Agreed. Not an easy guess with several "talking points" - I don't know how one could guess it all. Ah. Yawn.

    Best,
    Eric

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