This is so neat, but I have a couple questions... 1. Why did PCGS not state these are for bronze cents? Someone might think these could be for copper-plated zinc cents. I know that copper-plated zinc strips would not be copper-plated, but not everyone else does. 2. Why did they not state it is for U.S. cents? Canada had bronze cents as well. Anyway, still pretty neat. I have to see what PCGS charges and might send mine in.
LOL. I wonder if they'd make a slab big enough to fit an entire sealed monster box of ASEs? I know they've put certification seals on tubes of them.
Thats really cool! It is almost one of those story pieces that you would get, just because the slab is so big lolol
You know, I might want to find and acquire one of those that was used for silver dimes or quarters, because , you know, it would still be 90% silver, wouldn't it. And because of the value of the metal, those might even be more rare, and certainly expensive. But when it comes to gold planchet strips, I'm like Hammer , "I can't touch that".
If I have a Lincoln cent slabbed, they don't put "U.S." on the label either. But if it is Canadian, then then put "Canada" on it. See the consistency?
Wow, that's trippy. I've seen some big slabs and some odd items in them, but that's cool. They probably should have, but maybe ran out of space on the label? PCGS never specifies the country on US coins. If it were Canadian, they would have specified that, of course. Not that I necessarily agree- I personally think the country (USA or otherwise) should always be on a slab label for consistency's sake, but I'm a World coin collector and a bit nitpicky about stuff like that. But PCGS is definitely a US-centric service, so I guess they figure it's just understood. I tend to think they over-abbreviate on their labels, too.
A lot if new collectors still don't know that post mid 1982 Cents are Copper Plated Zinc anyway https://www.cointalk.com/threads/copper-penny.328021/
Pretty sure that all such scrap containing precious metals gets audited and tracked carefully. It's one thing to smuggle out a few cents' worth of clad scrap; quite another to smuggle out thousands of dollars of gold.
I think Fred Weinberg said he has never seen nor heard of 90% silver webbing strips for sale, but saw some gold ones inside the West Point Mint and some in Hong Kong (not sure if the ones in Hong Kong were for sale)
Yes, you are correct, Sir. I doubt if even 1% of non-collectors know that. That's just my guess. I know that when I talk about coins at my part-time retail job, this aspect among them, no one seems to know hardly anything about coin collecting or even coins in general. It's always the parent or the grandparent in the family who has collected. These youngsters, with their almost total lack of coin knowledge, sometimes, when they ask questions, make me feel, even with my limited collecting experience, as some sort of "expert". I try not to bask in such undeserved glory but it's like putting a bag full of chocolate caramels in front of someone with a sweet tooth.....I can't help myself. They don't know the older ones are mostly copper and worth 2 cents apiece. They don't know nickels are worth 8 cents apiece. They don't know there are laws against melting pennies and nickels, but not against melting silver coins. I could go on and on about what so many people don't know about coins and coin collecting.......and I might add myself to the list of those who don't know that much. As I'm fond of saying : " I learn something new everyday. "
