PCGS slabs new "corn cob pipe variety"?

You gotta see this to believe it.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/282002675403?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

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They blew that one!

 

The grader was moving a bit too fast on that one.

 

Or he's being backed by "Big Tobacco."

 

Doubtful the surfaces are original, as well.

 

Silly fella... that's not corn cob, that's clay.

 

Is it possible this slab was opened and the coin was switched out? I know we'd all like to think it's not.

 

Occam's razor... What's more likely, a switched out coin OR the grader was going too fast or hungover etc and just missed it... To error is human. To be a grader that makes mistakes is, well, you know the rest

 

I bet she,s more fun that way.

 

I can believe in missing something looking at a coin. However, I'd always heard that 3 people looked at the coin for grading purposes. Is this incorrect?

 

Three Blind Mice, in this case.

 

There's an Andrew Dice Clay Hickory Dickery Dock joke somewhere in there

 

This is the kind of thing for people who buy the label and not the coin, a huge mistake.

I am thinking of making a short set of Mercury Dimes in 66FB (45 is 67 no FB) and I am looking through ones that are premium quality and would sticker at CAC.

 

How about a "grading set" showing the entire range of 66FB's?

 

Snerk. You could probably get everything from AU to MS68 into it.

 

But, but, but, muh PCGS is the best grading company ever

 

But 3 graders and a finalizer?

 

There's a bumper sticker that says "stuff happens" or something like that. This would fall into that category imo

 

I bet they saw it, decided it was old enough damage to be okay for a low grade. If you sent it back in however I don't think it would grade today or would be dropped down a few grades if it did.