MAN IS NGC GETTING SLOPPY!

Given the structure of your own sentence, you have no room to talk.

For the sake of everyone else, please do not apply for the job!

Chris

 

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Thank you, Chris

 

Deflation.........

 

Oh, the worries of the world - oh, the humanity. Cities not far from him are being burned but he is worried about an infernal mislabeled coin.

 

its just a typo..

 

They should have mentioned it here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/worst-mistakes-in-history-2011-4?op=1

 

If you think that's sloppy what would you call this?

3 or 4 years ago I sent in two 1999-S silver proof sets for grading.
Virtually every quarter and half were mislabeled.

Both halves say Connecticut

One Pennsylvania quarter is correct while the other says fifty cents

Both Georgia's say New Jersey

Both Connecticut's say Georgia

One New Jersey's says Pennsylvania, the other says fifty cents

Both Delaware's are correct.

I have since sold one of the sets and cracked the quarters for my Dansco.
I still have the Connecticut half though.

 

They probably do have such a person. But NGC grades 150,000 coins a month, that is 7,500 coins a day or 938 coins a hour. If you are the guy checking these slabs you are looking at 16 coins per minute or about one coin every 4 seconds. Sounds like plenty of time, and at the beginning of the day you're probably able to do fine, but after seven hours you WILL be missing things. And by the end of the week oh boy!

 

Mechanical errors happen, it's just a fact of life. And some can be collectible in their own right. The coin shown here is actually a Large Motto variety. Sure would hate to be the person that paid Small Motto money for it. This occupies the VG-8 place in my two cent grade set.

 

All this talk about these things kind o' makes me wonder if the grade ain't a 'mechanical error' too..........

 

I want one of the PCGS graded Micro-O counterfeits - now there is a label worth something.

 

Again, forgive me, as I am a "new member" and you are an "active member," so in the vein of "taking my own advice" based off of my other posts, please take my coin/bullion/investing advice, along with my opinions, with a grain of salt. With that said; the coin is no different. The piece of plastic classifying/grading/displaying it is incorrect.

Another loose metaphor I will use is this: If the post office lost your order from the mint, when you finally received the package, would you sell your coin on eBay, or to your LCS as a "delivery error" variety? I just need someone to explain the correlation between the hobby services grading company error and the coin itself.

 

No one collects pieces of mail. Plus, the post office is known for screwing up. Coin collecting is a very serious hobby, and the top two graders pride themselves on what they do. I find it amusing that they make some pretty big, obvious mistakes sometimes. I would not pay big money for this coin, but I would buy it.

 

Agree, but I don't think it's the actual graders putting the coins and labels in the holders. I believe it's much further down stream in the process.

 

By "graders" I am talking about grading companies. It is still the company screwing up

 

First card I ever got. I always keep a deck in the works in my safe, as over the course of 15-20 years, the value of it has slowly crept up. When new sets come out, I browse them on gatherer.wizards.com and see if any new cards help my deck. I currently have a deck, that works on a principle I have yet to see anywhere else, and has yet to lose. However, the only way I play is through Skype with a few old buddies who play.

I will always keep a deck (as well as a simple Red/Green burn/beast deck in case someone ever wants to play). Funny story, I sold around $5k of Magic cards on eBay about 4 years ago I accumulated through Middle school, High School and College to fund some numismatic moves I made. Turned out to be a great play.

 

At least the grade looks about right. Can't complain about that!!

 

Looks like they called it a 5¢ coin instead of what it really is: A double 5¢. Which wouldn't be any more confusing than calling a half-dime an "H10"...,, But I digress.