Okay so....I thought this through: If a problem coin is a "bodybagged" and we slab coins into coffins "I don't get it... If you die, they sometimes put you in a bodybag and then into a coffin... So, if a coin has problems, why would you body bag it...and if you "body bag" it, were would it go? It can't go into a coffin because that is were all the good coins go (which is sadistic that we call it that...why would we put the "alive" coins in a coffin) Just something that confused me while I was sitting here eating leftover cake from yesterday. stainless
Homework? Summer? another term contradiction :goofer:. Lol, I took this semester off and am starting back up in August. Then it'll be a long 6 or 7 years for my major. stainless
my little cousin made it...it has chocolate frosting, chocolate cake..then has gummy bears (yum), twix, and marshmellows.. it tasty stainless
There's no contradiction. In order to be a contradiction, the terminology would have to come from the same source, which they do not. The term bodybag originated with the Third Party Graders themselves. The term is used by PCGS in their own FAQs. It is a term used to identify a coin which does not meet to their standards for grading. The term "body bag" is used by the Third Party Graders to identify a condition of a coin that is undesirable. The term "coffin", on the other hand, represents a term used by the collector community. More specifically, it is a term used, more or less, by those who view placing the coin "permanently" into a plastic encasing to be a necessarily bad thing, as you, the collector, are no longer able to view the true beauty of the coin, including luster, intricacies in the fields, even hold the coin and feel the cold metal against your skin. Being barred from these activities is viewed by some to be a necessarily bad thing. Both "body bag" and "coffin" are derogatory terms in the numismatic community, but they are terms that are usually used in their intended form by two different poles of the numismatic community for two different purposes.
To me "bodybag" is an accepted term by most coin collectors. It has a negative connotation but is no longer a derogatory term to most collectors. But the term "coffin" is mostly used by those who don't care for coins sealed in plastic holders by TPGs. It is definitely derogatory. I prefer coins sealed in plastic holders by TPGs so I use the more neutral term, "slab".
If you put a problem into a slab it will always be a problem, if you bury it without a coffin, it will eventually erode and no longer be a problem
Coffin was originally used to mean a slab that has an overgraded coin in it, especially one that has been cracked out and upgraded possibly several times until it is in a slab it will never come back out of (a coffin) because if it did the grade and value have no where to go but down. You know we could continue these descriptive terms too. Store our coffins in a PCGS plastic crypt that we keep in the vault. And they say coin collecting is a dying hobby.
I have a very funny feeling there was more in that cake that made you think like that ,not sugar . I would get it analized and let us know I;ll hang for awhile longer to see the outcome of this. JC
