Anybody have a picture of a not-quite-round ancient in an NGC holder?

lordmarcovan · August 3, 2010 5:12PM

I'm wondering how a coin with an oblong, odd-shaped flan would do in one of their "prong" inserts. Surely they must have something to deal with this potential problem, but if a coin is not quite round, how do they make the prongs fit it?

I'm just curious, since I am getting back into the Romans, albeit on a more modest scale, and since two of my coins are already in NGC plastic, I thought, hmm, well maybe I might entomb the rest of them. But more than one of the raw ones I have is weirdly shaped.

savoyspecial · August 3, 2010 5:16PM

do you have any idea what time it is???

i have seen error coins with a clipped planchet that did not make contact with 1 (sometimes 2) of the prongs and it still held in place, somehow

lordmarcovan · August 3, 2010 5:18PM

Ah, yes. I didn't think of looking up off-center pieces. They would certainly be a good model for some of the ovoid ancients I have.

But I wonder how dorky they look with an empty prong or two.

savoyspecial · August 3, 2010 5:20PM

dorky is a good word for how they look

lordmarcovan · August 3, 2010 5:28PM

OK, this one pretty much illustrates what I was wondering about.

Looks a bit dorky, 'tis true, but not quite as bad as I envisioned.

savoyspecial · August 3, 2010 5:56PM

hey LordM,

check out this thread

lordmarcovan · August 8, 2010 10:13AM

Wow, that one's crazy. If I had been NGC, I would have put it in an old-school non-prong insert.

mrpotatoheadd · August 8, 2010 10:58AM

Not ancient, but not round, either...

lordmarcovan · August 8, 2010 1:00PM

That might not be ancient, but it's sweet.

Anybody have a picture of a not-quite-round ancient in an NGC holder?

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