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 Posted 08/28/2008  3:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mklpatrick to your friends list
It kinda looks like someone went after it with a stick of dynamite.
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 Posted 08/28/2008  4:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add xshift to your friends list
Wow.. I think I got the first official grade of "crap". And I can't even find that on my grading scale.



Ah well.. seriously, thanks for the comments. I'd still like to know where it got all the colors, but it's pretty moot. Time for an acetone bath and experiments!
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 Posted 08/28/2008  4:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DL20K to your friends list
The symbol is CR-0, I believe.
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 Posted 08/28/2008  4:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KurtS to your friends list

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The symbol is CR-0

xshift I apologize in advance for my humor. But my goodness, let's be accurate here!

CR-0 Coin was stored in sulfuric acid, then properly dried off with Flourine gas. Slab contains a few random atoms which might be a coin. This grade is best suited for collectors who possess a scanning electron microscope.

CR-0.25 Coin went through "surface restoration" as target in particle collider. There may be holes (and isotopes) present. Best stored in a lead container.

CR-0.5 Coin was embedded in semi-truck tire and driven across the country, rotated with tire and made the return trip. It may or not be round. Caution: sharp edges may be present!

CR-0.75 Coin subjected to sticks, stones, and non-nuclear military ordnance. Something might still be legible, but it may require Google Translate to identify the series, or possibly decryption software.

CR-0.9 CR "Choice" Coin victim of chemical or electrical experiment, then subjected to "light cleaning" with various industrial tools. This is a CR "PQ" coin--few qualify, and they stand by their own merits.

Xshift, if yours is CR, it certainly is a PQ, "Choice" example.


All in fun of course!
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08/28/2008 5:05 pm
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 Posted 08/28/2008  4:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DL20K to your friends list
Well, in time, we might need some mid-grades like CR-0.83 etc.
But anyway, thanks for the explanation!
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 Posted 08/28/2008  4:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
Kurt, I am headed back to Urgent Care... I just fell in the floor again!
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 Posted 08/28/2008  10:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrsb to your friends list
I just laughed so hard I spit water out of my mouth on to my keyboard, lesson learned no drinking while reading these boards!!
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 Posted 08/29/2008  11:41 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Prethen to your friends list
Kurt!! I like the grading scale. I think we need to keep it around. Propose it to the board mods. This should be for those coins that truly deserve it.
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 Posted 08/29/2008  2:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add 1sikevo to your friends list
You think CAC will sticker that CR-0 ?
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 Posted 08/29/2008  2:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinguybrian to your friends list
send it to SGS it might get a VF-20 PQ grade
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 Posted 08/29/2008  5:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add atlashealth to your friends list
most of my coins look like this...
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 Posted 08/29/2008  7:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add xshift to your friends list

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most of my coins look like this...


Don't worry.. we can get yours slabbed too!

1865-3-Cent

(sorry.. couldn't resist the pic)
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 Posted 08/29/2008  8:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KurtS to your friends list
Classic...well done xshift!
This should get on our Millenium Pillar pick, but I think it would confuse a few newcomers
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 Posted 08/29/2008  8:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Prethen to your friends list
I posted this thread on the PCGS boards as proof of a new slab company and grading system.
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08/29/2008 8:56 pm
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