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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;shaner, post: 2121161, member: 73658&quot;]Some of the replies here make me wonder what happened to adulthood.&nbsp; <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/file:///C:/Users/Shaner/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ll make it shorter so I don&#039;t get any more PM&#039;s from crazy people.&nbsp; <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/file:///C:/Users/Shaner/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/file:///C:/Users/Shaner/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Basically, few weeks ago, we decided to get a membership into PCGS.&nbsp; Done.</p><p>We decided to go down to Baltimore and get the coin graded on Thursday as I had prior engagements for Fri-Sat-Sun.</p><p>Arrived, got the map.&nbsp; Flew over to PCGS.&nbsp; Stood in line.&nbsp; Filled out the submission and handed the lady the coin.&nbsp; She wrapped it up in the submission, put some rubber bands around it and away it went.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now, with two kids in tow, we had to decide how to spend the next 4-5 hours waiting.</p><p>We walked around talking to many people, showing them the pictures of the coin my wife had on her cell phone.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I couldn&#039;t believe how many people were so excited over an 1803 dime.</p><p>I noticed someone giving out &quot;free appraisals&quot; and we stopped and showed him pictures.&nbsp; He stated it would be an AU53 or 55 based on the pictures my wife had.</p><p>Then I met &quot;tough coins&quot;, Mike, I believe, had a lengthy talk with him, very nice, very informative, very trustworthy.&nbsp; Both my wife and I enjoyed his conversation.&nbsp; He also directed me to Tom who I couldn&#039;t find so we walked around some more.</p><p>We wound back in the aisle of the &quot;free appraisal&quot; where my one son started playing with my other son while I chatted away...this woman walked over and handed my son a huge coin that had a &quot;dead&quot; character on it.&nbsp; She was glad to see the brothers playing together even though their ages are far apart. </p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=zombie+coin&amp;_from=R40&amp;_osacat=0&amp;_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR10.TRC1.A0.H0.Xzombucks.TRS1&amp;_nkw=zombucks&amp;_sacat=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=zombie+coin&amp;_from=R40&amp;_osacat=0&amp;_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR10.TRC1.A0.H0.Xzombucks.TRS1&amp;_nkw=zombucks&amp;_sacat=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=zombie+coin&amp;_from=R40&amp;_osacat=0&amp;_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR10.TRC1.A0.H0.Xzombucks.TRS1&amp;_nkw=zombucks&amp;_sacat=0</a></p><p>I then looked at her display and since I am a walking dead fan, and my son likes zombies I decided to buy 1 of each of her coins...so now we have the entire copper set of zombucks coins.&nbsp; See link.</p><p>At the rear of the show, there was a man with a huge banner, the banner stated, CASH FOR COINS, and I looked at my wife and said lets go talk to him.&nbsp; By this time, talking to many vendors and showing the pictures to many people, the grades went anywhere from XF40 to AU58...what our coin would grade at was still a mystery but the pressure and stress from waiting just keeps building.</p><p>We approached the man, told him about the coin and we had the cell pictures.&nbsp; He did something on his phone, which I took as a text message, and he immediately stated &quot;that coin will come back damaged&quot;...my heart sunk.&nbsp; How could he know?</p><p>We walked off, bought some coin supplies to put our other coins from our bags in, and talked about what he said. </p><p>We went back to the appraiser, who stated &quot;Yes, the coin could be damaged&quot; as the pics can be deceiving...</p><p>We eventually found Tom, we introduced ourselves, talked for a 1/2 hour, checked on our coin. not there yet.&nbsp; At 5:45 we left Tom again and decided to go check on our coin...like we had every half hour from 4:00 on...</p><p>The coin was ready for pickup.&nbsp; There were other people in line waiting for their coin(s), one fellow asked what we had graded and we told him an 1803 dime.&nbsp; He was excited too...</p><p>We signed the form for handoff, grabbed the blue PCGS box, and slowly opened the lid.</p><p>Inside that long narrow, plastic container was our coin, sitting there IN A PCGS SLAB ! ! ! </p><p><br /></p><p>NO DAMAGE !</p><p><br /></p><p>My wife immediately grabbed it and took it out...and off to Tom we went...</p><p><br /></p><p>We showed him the slab, and he grabbed his loupe and looked at it under the light. </p><p>He stated that the coin looked better than my pictures...which is A-OK in this case...we talked about selling it, consigning it, auctioning it, just about every topic one could talk about a coin.&nbsp; But we have no clue as what to do. </p><p>Upon researching, and with what others have said at the show…it seems common practice for the graders to agree to a grade and &quot;if&quot; it comes back in for grading it might get a better grade.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My wife thinks its worth trying one more time just to see what kind of grade it gets the second time.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if I can live with the excitement. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But now, I think I have more questions than before...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie41" alt=":depressed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The real reason I didn&#039;t post sooner is because I didn&#039;t have time nor internet fri, sat, sun...I arrived home in the evening Sunday, went to bed, and then work.&nbsp; Monday when I came home I went back to bed..slept 12 hours from the hectic weekend.&nbsp; Friday, my sons car sprung a trans leak...towed.&nbsp; Tuesday I fixed that...came home went to bed.&nbsp; Wednesday I tried posting but I failed miserably.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So now I am trying again.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Our coin was graded...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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