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Message:: [QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 25280235, member: 92655"]I’m out here watching the boys now. This boy of mine is a 100% dedicated football player at 11 years old. This is flag foot season and he is the QB so he is feeling his oats…… Now PCGS will not slab a coin that they deem too damaged. It’s been a while since I have read what they put in those damage designations, but they felt that your coin was honest enough to be slabbed….. My life long dream coin was a 1784 USA Bar cent. I finally after a lifetime of dreaming bought mine three years ago. It is in a slab that says “tooled”…. The worst designation a label could have. That label was the only thing that made that coin affordable to me. And in the end, all it means is someone took a pocketknife a hundred years ago and scraped grime out of the reverse design. Take my coin away from that holder and it becomes a five figure coin! Far too much importance is placed on those labels in my mind. A beautiful coin (and yours is beautiful) is living history in your hands. If the  sophisticated collectors want to shun a label that holds a nice coin…. Well that’s just one more nice coin for me.[/QUOTE]