NGC Certifies 17 Glass tokens from WWII

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  1. Evan8

    Evan8 A Little Off Center

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  3. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    How does one grade such things when there aren't many others to compare with? Aren't grades pretty much relative to others within the series?
     
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  4. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    These have popped up over the years, but I've never known much about them. Pretty interesting.

    As far as grading, it is merely a judgment call on the quality of manufacture and the state of preservation. It's not really necessary for them to have graded similar coins in the past to arrive at a grade consensus.
     
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  5. messydesk

    messydesk Well-Known Member

    As 17 were graded, I would imagine it wasn't difficult for the graders to compare them with each other and assign grades once some sort of guidance was established. I'd have been pretty nervous trying to snap them into the prongs in the holder.
     
  6. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    ... or did the holder prongs just widen sua sponte, Moses standing by the Red Sea-like, and then resume the normal configuration?
     
  7. TypeCoin971793

    TypeCoin971793 Just a random guy on the internet

    Well, the value of the one that sold about a year ago just went down.
     
  8. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    Was that a token? I thought that one was an experimental coin failure.
     
  9. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    When you read the article, it at least SUGGESTS these are the same thing as the previously "unique" one. They're all patterns, and they were all made by Blue Ridge Glass. Such is the inherent risk of buying "unique". Only Known is not the same as Only One.
     
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  10. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

    That's cool. Learned something new today.
     
  11. baseball21

    baseball21 Well-Known Member

    Putting them all in the same auction seems like a mistake too as well as sending them in all at once generating that article and attention
     
  12. C-B-D

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  13. Evan8

    Evan8 A Little Off Center

    Ah yes. There hasnt been enough dead horse beating around here anyways lol
     
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  14. baseball21

    baseball21 Well-Known Member

    Here I'll split the work load with you, @V. Kurt Bellman :smuggrin:
     
  15. C-B-D

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  16. dcarr

    dcarr Mint-Master

    Curious timing on Burdette's sale of his glass cent several months ago (when only two were generally known to exist).
     
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  17. C-B-D

    C-B-D Well-Known Member

    I would have done the same thing.
     
  18. jester3681

    jester3681 Exonumia Enthusiast

    I thought the same thing as I was reading this. Didn't it fetch about $40k? I bet the bottom drops out of the market.
     
  19. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    Also, of the two known at that time, I believe only 1 was intact.
     
  20. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Variety Nerd

    My thoughts exactly.
     
  21. C-B-D

    C-B-D Well-Known Member

    Hater's gonna hate! :D
     
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