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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I missed that in the description. That is what it looks like, that it melted. Just that for it to have gotten to the temp needed to melt that, I'm shocked the outside plastic wasnt affected. I think the rims look like that because the rubber flowed over them. Regardless, not sure I would pay even 10 bucks for them until they went back to PCGS and they removed and reholdered them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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"The rubber insert inside the slab appears to have been placed in sunlight, melting the rubber slightly.  Quote:
Just that for it to have gotten to the temp needed to melt that, I'm shocked the outside plastic wasn't affected.  Admittedly I do not know much about the materials used in these old slabs, but it seems a bit weird that a slabbed coin could not be exposed to sunlight without the rubber insert melting.  Quote:
Regardless, not sure I would pay even 10 bucks for them until they went back to PCGS and they removed and reholdered them. As to sending it back to PCGS - I can understand why the seller would not want to waste the money. Breaking this out and selling it seems more logical. Maybe the seller thought, as our own CCF member HumblePie has evidenced, that the oddity of the slab would make it desirable? Someone want to experiment with a blow torch and a slab to let us know id they can melt the rubber without the plastic being affected?  How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I guess the moral of this story could be.
Always use sunscreen on your slabbed coins before taking them to the beach to lay out..?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The seam in the melted rubber made me think the slab had been tampered with. With the 1922-no-D being such a common target for counterfeiting, I'd think it would be worth reholdering, if for no other reason than to help ensure its authenticity. (But then, look how many eBayers buy obvious fakes.)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3179 Posts |
Don't leave slabs in your car on a hot day.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
883 Posts |
It's an interesting look. It makes it look like the coin was poured through a hole from the side.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4592 Posts |
Not for me ... if it's not worth a $12 reholder ($17 gets you the new NFC security chip) to the seller, I'll pass...
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This slab was used from around 1999 to 2004 (when they lost designation of the official grading service of the PNG). So this coin has been in its holder for at least 15-16 years.
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Moderator
 United States
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This one is a definitely an album candidate since the slab is toast.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The seam in the melted rubber made me think the slab had been tampered with. With the 1922-no-D being such a common target for counterfeiting, I'd think it would be worth reholdering, if for no other reason than to help ensure its authenticity. (But then, look how many eBayers buy obvious fakes.) Quote:
Not for me ... if it's not worth a $12 reholder ($17 gets you the new NFC security chip) to the seller, I'll pass... +1 The only thing that slab should do to the value of that coin is lower it because it brings in to question the authenticity of the coin. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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He does have a return policy though.
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Moderator
Australia
16832 Posts |
I think it would take more than a bit of sunlight to melt the plastic like that.
What happens if you put a slab in a microwave? Maybe something like this? (Science Note: don't try this at home. Don't put metal things in a microwave unless you can afford to buy a new microwave).
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
United States
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There is another one listed on ebay even worse than that one .... |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
I wish I had images of some of the ones that went through the postal services irradiation procedures back years ago after the anthrax terrorism attacks in DC back in 2001.
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Valued Member
United States
128 Posts |
Yea that isn't just sunlight. That is out in the sun on a hot day for hours, or in a hot car for hours, or something like that where the thing got to 120+ degrees for an extended period. I cannot see that this would damage the coin; its a low temp for a coin but a high temp for the plastic.
A microwave could scar a coin. Silver or gold may be damaged; not sure how hot it actually gets on high, but metal gets rather hot fast in there, and those arcs & sparks cut the metal layer out of a cd in a hurry.
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