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Valued Member
United States
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I had the strangest experience tonight. I had ordered a simple 1958-D Jefferson nickel MS66 from a dealer's website a few days ago. When I examined the coin, I was astonished to realize that while the slab says 1958-D, there is a 1938-D actually encapsulated.  The cert number ties out to a 1958-D. Not that I own a ton of PCGS slabs- maybe 150 or so- but I'm in disbelief that the grader got the date wrong. Have not seen something like this before and not sure what to think. Edited by shermae
06/12/2014 9:49 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Congratulations. Always better to be lucky then good.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2543 Posts |
Just a mistake in labeling, I'm sure the grader doesn't make the label.
If you send it back, they will fix it for free.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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@denco7: No way should he send it back. If the PCGS label says the wrong date, then this is a very valuable slab! People pay big bucks for error slabs!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If there's an error on the slab it pretty much voids PCGS's "guarantee" under their very extensive (what I like to call) "CYA" policy.
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I don't think they are that rare nor that valuable. There is an mintmark mistake on ebay right now for $20BIN. I have an NGC where it's an 1851O labeled as an 1851. But as part of a collection of slabs or something like that, it's a lot of fun! -----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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United States
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I'm in disbelief that the grader got the date wrong. The grader didn't get it wrong. The data entry guy who unpacked the submission and entered it into the computer got it wrong either as a typo or he couldn't read the submitters handwriting and saw a 5 instead of a 3. the grader just gets a flip with a barcode sticker on it. He scanned the barcode, takes the coin out, looks at it, grades it, puts it back in the flip, types the grade into the computer, hits enter and moves to the next coin Wheter he can see on his screen what the barcode says the coin is I don't know, and he probably doesn't bother to confirm it anyway. He's under time pressure to get a lot of coins graded so he just scans and grades. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Error slab! Sell it as an error!
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United States
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@denco7: No way should he send it back. If the PCGS label says the wrong date, then this is a very valuable slab! People pay big bucks for error slabs! Ha....ha....no they don't  You have to find the right kind of newb (was going to say idiot) to pay big bucks for a typo. The same way that no one is going to pay "big bucks" for an XF coin that was graded as an MS, no one is going to pay anything for a typo. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Error slab... really... buy the coin not the holder..
a 38-D is more valuable then a 58-D
send it back to get the right date on it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It happens. They make mistakes. More of a novelty than a huge money making "error".
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United States
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How interesting...this coming from the guy who got rid of 90% of his slabs aside from a few "fun things" my 4 year old has fun with the coins the kid wont kill!! Unless he finds a hammer... Ohhhh nooo!! Me myself I would...sheesh I just dont know what a mess..ya buy one thing get another (more valuable) yet it needs fixed,so its not what ya wanted either way.. What a mess
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That's a nice mistake!  |
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