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     OK, I was told it existed... I know the seller. And I've heard the provenance. I knew that 2nd tier TPGs have slabbed odd items in the past: I already own several slabbed wooden nickels (one PCI, one Blue ANACS, one yellow ANACS)... I own five slabbed wooden TUITs (I'll do it when I get around to it)... At ANA2013, while talking to Ken Hallenbeck, I was told that during the last days ANA owned ANACS there was an informal competition to slab the weirdest thing, won by a piece of orange peel (I don't own it, sorry, no photos)... But now - we have a winner! - here it is, the one and only (I hope)  See's Candy Chocolate Dollar in a wait for it PCGS slab http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHOCOLATE-C...271738428748 I don't recommend cracking it out and eating it, there will definitely be milk spots and it's surely not mint. -----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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From the ebay description: Quote:
The other staff were amazed to see that the chocolate coin survived the slabbing process and remained in good condition. Does the PCGS slabbing process involve heating ? |
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Pertinax, that's not a PCGS slab.
It's just very similar.
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Oh, no that IS a PCGS slab. As I said, I know the provenance.
Pertinax it's (ultra)sonic welding, which is the application of ultrasonic (sound) waves to plastic to cause it to melt in specific areas (where the sound is applied) and thus form a weld. The slab bodies are constructed specially so that there are overlapping bits in the weld area and there will be a seal afterwards. So it does heat the shell, I don't think it was known exactly how localized the peak heat was.
-----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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-----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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It's obviously a PCGS slab. Nice to know they have (had?) a sense of humor.
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That is hilarious.  |
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Surprised that it was not a clipped error...  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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What? No grade? Not even a details grade?
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It is only an idiotic price if some idiot buys it.
A show of hands of all who think PCGS will claim it as 'official'.
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idiotic price I agree on that. But when asked to name what I thought it might be worth, I couldn't come up with a price. If you hate TPGs and wanted a poster child for why they're really no better than Chinese factory ghost shifts or Egyptian 3rd shift mint errors, then this was the piece you really have to have. And that alone could make it worth serious money... Look, stupidity is usually a free service, however at a certain point the very stupidity becomes the sales point. Remember when golden something or other casino was running around buying pancakes because there might be a face in the burn mark and they could display it and maybe drive some business to their site? caveat emptor -----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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And I had so many of them when I was a kid, many many year ago...I can only imagine what they would be worth today had I kept them!  |
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See's still sells them... $4.65 for 4 ounces. Plus shipping. Plus slabbing fees and shipping to/from PCGS. Not to mention the $5,000 fee for looking the other way while somebody slabs it.
-----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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And then the Pops go out the window and supply drops the bottom out of the market. The Registry guys wouldn't know what hit them.
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