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Pillar of the Community
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I'm betting it's a typo on PCGS' part. I found a few articles about State Quarters struck on experimental planchets -- all of them said these planchets were overweight. Here is an article about the very coin you're asking about. It shows "grains" on the label but "grams" in the text of the article. There are also snippets of related articles about these planchets. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks - being a typo is the only idea I had - I thought perhaps I was missing something.
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Bedrock of the Community
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It must be a typo. Other than that, I can't think of any other reason why they would have grains, instead of grams.
Errers and Varietys.
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If you happen to ask PCGS let us know the official response.
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Valued Member
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someone probably put "gr" in some database that spits out data automatically. 6 gr is about the weight of half of a dime.
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Bedrock of the Community
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It's not even that much. A clad dime weighs 35 grains, half of a dime would be 17.5 grains. You are talking less tha a quarter the weight of a clad dime. Heck a silver 3 cent was 11.5 grains.
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Pillar of the Community
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I attempted to call PCGS about this and was placed on infinite hold, so I sent an E-mail. Having my doubts that I will receive an answer!
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I emailed them and this is their response:
"Good Afternoon,
Thank you for contacting PCGS Customer Service,
Correct, this particular Cert information is referring to the particular planchet that the quarter was struck on.
6.7 Grains is referring to the pedigree given to the coin regarding this planchet.
Thank you,"
They apparently are saying the label is correct. If someone wants to follow up on this...I will provide the person's name and email, but only in a PM
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They apparently are saying the label is correct. If someone wants to follow up on this...I will provide the person's name and email, but only in a PM Curious! I have still not received a response!!  I am willing to follow up...thanks for making some progress on the question! |
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Finally! A resolution! Here is my message: Quote:
We have noticed the information you provided Re: Certificate
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You may have misunderstood the question.
6.7 grains = 0.434153 grams - this is not remotely possible as a weight for a quarter planchet.
I think that there has been an error in the process, somewhere.
Please let me know what is being done about this problem. Here is the response: Quote:
Thank you for contacting PCGS Customer Service,
I apologize for the confusion on my end and checked in with our grading department, it does appear to be a clerical error and the coin would have to be sent in to be corrected to its proper weight. |
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