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What Is The Silliest/Most Ridiculous Coin You Have In A Slab?

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As I was going through some rolls of coins the other day I came across some rough looking ones. I started thinking about how silly it would be if someone actually sent one of them in for grading. I am talking a random modern Jefferson nickel - say in VF30 condition. Or a Lincoln Memorial cent in F15. Obviously this would be a waste of money but could be kind of funny. I've never sent in a coin to be graded but am curious if anyone has seen anything like this.

Maybe it was a novice who bought a coin without understanding the value or someone who greatly over-estimated the condition of their coin before sending it in for grading. No judgment here, I thought it could be an entertaining topic though..
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Oh, I have a good one!

What-Is-The-Silliest/Most-Ridiculous-Coin-You-Have-In-A-Slab?

This coin would be a tough sale for 25 cents in a junk box. I didn't send it out. I got it in a junk box for $1 just as an example of how money gets wasted.
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I don't have any in my possession, but I've seen a few over the years.
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This could be good.
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The grading companies usually give you some kind of quantity discount deal. Platinum-level PCGS "membership" comes with 8 free submissions, for example. If you only have 6 coins you really want graded but you're entitled to send in 8 for free, are you going to let those 2 "spare slots" go to waste? Or will you simply pick up two random coins you happen to have lying around the house and toss them into the submission bucket?

Or maybe a bulk submission: suppose sending in 100 coins lets you apply for a cheaper rate, but you only have say 80 coins ready to go in for grading; it turns out to be cheaper to just toss in 20 random extra coins and get the bulk discount.

That, I suspect, is where a large proportion of the "why would anybody bother slabbing this" coins come from.

Finally, there's the "taking people too seriously" issue. Many a time, when someone comes onto the coin forums with a damaged not-really-a-mint-error coin, people will (jokingly) tell them to send it in to a TPG and see what they say. And sometimes - not always, not often, but sometimes - somebody actually does just that, and sends in a worthless damaged coin to get slabbed.
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Well, bulk isn't random.

At PCGS it's a minimum of 100 coins of just 5 coin numbers: https://www.pcgs.com/services/bulksubmissions

At NGC (have to be logged in to see), it's 100-200 of the same coin.
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