ICCS And Unlabeled Damaged Coins - A Gallery Of Horrors

I am here first as a collector, & second for the entertainment factor. Keep up the good work danlos & glenzy. Two such opposites.

I'm just getting back to the main house for the winter now and catching up on some of the threads. I can understand how a dealer might take offense to things like this but I just figure they need to grow a thicker skin.

Again it drives the point home about buying the coin and not the holder. When you buy a coin the only person you need to please is yourself. Unless you collect holders, in which case you should make sure that plastic is A1 :) .

Thanks for the pics Danlos, was a good read and while nothing most of us haven't seen I like having them in one place. All that's missing are the multitude of dipped coins that seem to never receive a mention. I notice CCCS is catching them sometimes now.

And of course all of those "Godlike" bright white 125-200 year old PCGS slabbed beauties have never been "restored" either !

funny guy .............

Well there's the thing, people do NOT like getting ripped off. When it happens they scream loud and usually justifiably so. I've said many times the only opinion I can really value on a coin is mine, it's MY money. No one else gets a say unless I ask and then I usually ask very politely indeed because time is valuable. If you get an opinion on a nickel dollar from someone like SPP, consider that advice more highly than you would the the letters on the plasti pac.

I've also seen Canadian coin sales by members of this and other forums on ebay where the coin was clearly dipped and submitted for grading. You'd have to be blind to miss this yet those listings never proclaim the item cleaned. So it's not all the TPGs , some onus has to be put on the coin doctors who are still out in force.

Still, I've read the terms of service for both Canadian graders and they offer nothing in terms of a promise. They are selling their skills at packaging.

danlos9551 how much is that 1872H A/V 50cent G-4 I think it was...

Cost me $200...

Wow...this has been quite the thread. I was going to post a few pics here for an opinion, since it is ICCS related, but perhaps I will just go into the "grading" thread to post and see what you all think!