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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 20212, member: 112"]Well all I can say is this - I aint talkin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK - enough of the jokes <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Quite seriously - the only place I have ever heard the story is on the PCGS boards. Yeah I used to hang out there - but it kinda wore on me. Only place I visit there on a regular basis any more is the world forum. Anyway - I've been here in SLC since '82 - and until I read about the peacock colored Ikes ( no idea how they got PKOK from that ) on the PCGS forum - I had never of them. Seen them yes - but heard that story - no. And I never heard of them being called that either. </p><p><br /></p><p>It does make me wonder though how these stories get started. Perhaps there is a grain of truth - perhaps not. But one thing is for sure - a good story will absolutely sell coins !! Take the wildly toned nickels from a hoard discovered in W.Va. ( I was raised in that part of the country ) I think it was. Those nickels have very distinctive toning - drop dead gorgeous every one. And they often sell for 10X list <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> And the number of them was supposedly limited. But there are just as many folks who think that batch of nickels was AT as there are who think the PKOK Ikes are AT - and of course an equal number who think both are NT. But are they ? Well - like I said before - </p><p><br /></p><p>I aint talkin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 20212, member: 112"]Well all I can say is this - I aint talkin :D OK - enough of the jokes :rolleyes: Quite seriously - the only place I have ever heard the story is on the PCGS boards. Yeah I used to hang out there - but it kinda wore on me. Only place I visit there on a regular basis any more is the world forum. Anyway - I've been here in SLC since '82 - and until I read about the peacock colored Ikes ( no idea how they got PKOK from that ) on the PCGS forum - I had never of them. Seen them yes - but heard that story - no. And I never heard of them being called that either. It does make me wonder though how these stories get started. Perhaps there is a grain of truth - perhaps not. But one thing is for sure - a good story will absolutely sell coins !! Take the wildly toned nickels from a hoard discovered in W.Va. ( I was raised in that part of the country ) I think it was. Those nickels have very distinctive toning - drop dead gorgeous every one. And they often sell for 10X list :eek: And the number of them was supposedly limited. But there are just as many folks who think that batch of nickels was AT as there are who think the PKOK Ikes are AT - and of course an equal number who think both are NT. But are they ? Well - like I said before - I aint talkin :D :D[/QUOTE]
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