Coin Collector Humor

Many of us can relate...

That was brilliant!

Also cool coins, we should bring back old money it saved lives back then.

DiogoM21 - Not so much humor but a lucky pile of coins for sure! Glad he had them in his pocket that moment.

I have a friend that was living in a tent for awhile on his uncle's land, it was a large Army tent (like seen in M*A*S*H*), it caught fire one night and he barely escaped when the fire woke him up, he had a puddle of clad metal that used to be coins sitting on a dresser. One of the only things left aft er the fire. I remember a bunch of us friends all chipped in to give him money and clothes from our spares in our own closets, he lost everything except what he was wearing and his dog. It was wild, I never took a photo of the coin puddle (darn it), and he is long gone from my life now. But it was cool how you could sort of make out a few of the coins but nothing beyond denomination, no dates or mint marks.

Bravo, Earle!

. But confess I do own a very few slabs....

Well then let me confess I am in the process of having a 46 DDR Walker slabbed so it can be sold at Heritage LOL!

There is a market of people who enjoy slabs for what they are. And I understand why it can be fun. I also can cheer them along in their acquisitions b/c they are having fun. Knowledge is the key.

My beef with the companies is that they have taken advantage of the faith people put in them and do not deliver what they claim...all for the sake of profit.

Their PR is also slanted to make profits. Look up the youtube video showing the PCGS grading challenge where they pit a person against seeing how many of 10 slabbed coins they can guess the right grade each was given. If the test coins were re-slabbed, the old "right grade" now becomes a new "right grade," and someone who got 100% now would have failed some of them. Any person's score they got with the original grades would be different than the second set of grades! And while some people understand the grades are subjective, the person giving the test (former president of PCGS ROn Guth) keeps using the term "right grade" during the whole video. Someone not thinking is led towards the idea the grades are an absolute, one, verifiable right grade.

Wow! How parents would have complained (and rightly so) if my students had been given tests where the right answer is changeable!

As long as someone knows what they are doing, the companies can be used in a smart way. But I sincerely doubt their expertise is near what they claim by the research I have done. Look at the essay in my signature. At least a 30% obvious rookie level error with assigning No FG Kennedy half designations!