[h=3]Why fake it? Why send it in even if real? This cost at least $40 between shipping both ways and grading... ?!?!?!?! PCGS Membership[/h] [TABLE="class: datagrid"] [TR="class: toprow"] Line # Item # Cert # PCGS No. CoinDate Denomination Variety Country Grade [/TR] [TR="class: rowone"] 1 1 26641136 6726 1976 50C Clad USA Questionable Authenticity [/TR] [/TABLE] Total Items: 1 Date Received: 11/20/2012 Date Shipped: 1/8/2013 Order Status: Shipped [TD="colspan: 2"]Share Order [/TD]
I cannot see the cert, but possibly an error coin faked? Regardless of the underlying coin value, some errors can be quite valuable.
Testing their mad counterfeiting skillz? Perhaps it was graded at a show, at least saving them the shipping costs? But yea, it certainly would be interesting to know the whole story behind that one!
Or I guess it could be something as simple as a novice not understand or believing their "rare and valuable" coin is not rare nor valuable. Lots of things non-collectors say and do make no sense to me. Everyone remember the "Hong Kong Continental Dollar" lady?
He's wondering what the possible motivation could be for counterfeiting such a coin in the first place and secondly even if they didn't counterfeit it why they would send it in as it is a nonvaluable coin.
You can look at shared submissions, https://www.pcgs.com/membership/Shared.aspx?Year=2013 and heres the coin in the OP https://www.pcgs.com/Membership/sharedorder.aspx?OrderNo=20654747
