Was this a PCGS mistake ?

Heh. When I had my house - that all blew up in 2007 when the market crashed - I did all that work in the bathroom because of fire safety and easy isolation/ventilation. Now I work on a stainless steel table on a fireproof portable floor covering.

And fire extinguishers spaced at steadily-further distances from that location, as I mentioned. Among my tools is a propane kiln; I can completely melt most coins if I want, and you would be astonished (well, maybe not you) how easy some things are to "conserve" if you have a thousand degrees Fahrenheit easily available. I suspect that's a major NCS tool as well. I've screwed up coins in some pretty ridiculous fashions. With the right touch and a little luck, I can turn a coin back into a planchet.

Oooh - I gotta add this: People, clad coins in general and Zlincolns in particular are nothing you want to do this with. Zinc has a relatively low melting point, and you don't want to discover trapped water/materials in a clad in this fashion. Trust me on this. That kind of heat is only useful for alloys, and even then laminations are one of those "sometimes your best efforts still kill the coin" incidents Insider mentioned.

I am a diagnosed adult ADHD patient, although it wasn't a "diagnosis" when I was a kid in Vermont - I was just a "rambunctious kid" who got disciplined a lot. I learned to control the mental stuff in my teens as a survival mechanism (fortunately, sufficient intelligence usually exists with the syndrome that I could fly through academic tasks before I lost attention), and I've chosen not to treat the physical hyperactivity because it's set me in good stead in my middle age; I ride my bike a few thousand miles a year, and walk another thousand or so, just for recreation. I've never reached 10% bodyfat and am currently around 4% at 56 years old.

Numismatics is the only thing I've ever been able to concentrate on for more than a couple months. And I can concentrate on it with all the "nothing else exists at that moment" obsession of ADHD. It's the greatest blessing in my life, along with the Calling (it's the only way to describe it, teachers know what I mean) to teach.

That's why I do this.

 

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Whoa dave. I was the same way. I was diagnosed in my teens with adhd. My high school kicked me out early in my senior year (with a 3.9gpa) solely due to my absences. All they cared about was $ and I had the ability to only need to go on test days and if I got a B on a test it was an aberration. Finished in a different school with 1460 on my SAT's. I kinda underestimated them, and overestimated my abilities though (old scoring system)

 

I know you realize that you have given away some conservation "tips" between the lines of your post.

 

I only scored in the 160's with the English score higher a few points higher than the math. That's why I like the faces.

 

I edited it. It was 1460. I had to look it up for the exact number as it's been awhile

 

I've been doing that for months here, deliberately. I've been following the topic online for ten years, and I feel very strongly that so much misinformation is being spread - usually innocently - that it's time to share publicly what I've learned the hard way. I'm not claiming infallibility; indeed, part of the reason I'm endeavoring to put it online is to establish a directly-associated dialogue for people to correct me/each other (I'll be providing forum/message space to that end).

All in one place. It's time we got this stuff into the open, correctly. Yes, it'll empower some folks who really_shouldn't be doing it and who will then kill good coins, but I think that's already happening anyway and I hope to at least educate those who *could* do it correctly if they learned correctly.

 

I thought 1400 was the max?

 

IMO, more coins are going to be by letting out a little at a time. Better to outline the entire process for each metal IN DETAIL if you know it.

Be careful...I was only joking about you burning down something.

 

I can't do it quickly - I'm not good enough at coding to handle the workload yet, and I can't dump that all on my partner, who is busy enough as it is. First things first.

 

1600 was the max

 

I find this is true of most people with ADHD, not numismatics, but they all seem to have some field that they ARE able to intensely focus on, that just captures and holds their attention.