I never had a "thing" for error coins but if somebody gave me this nail it would probably end up in a trash can but in same time it seems like some people are ready to pay over 10000 dollars for it wow
Good find! The most laughable part of the whole story is seeing it in a PCGS slab certified as MS 65. How can it be "mint state" when it has a big f***ing nail stuck right through the middle of it?
Don't these TPG pirates have any integrity? Honestly, I think these shameless bastards would grade toenail clippings if you offered them money. We need to get them and their fraudulent slabbing businesses out of our hobby before they destroy it.
Who's with me? Let's make 2016 the year when collectors started to collect coins again instead of plastic slabs.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
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Citeer: "pnightingale"Good find! The most laughable part of the whole story is seeing it in a PCGS slab certified as MS 65. How can it be "mint state" when it has a big f***ing nail stuck right through the middle of it?
Don't these TPG pirates have any integrity? Honestly, I think these shameless bastards would grade toenail clippings if you offered them money. We need to get them and their fraudulent slabbing businesses out of our hobby before they destroy it.
Who's with me? Let's make 2016 the year when collectors started to collect coins again instead of plastic slabs.
Me think there is something odd going on. A nail going through the feed to the press. A nail being hit by a die. One would think it would mess up the works. I don't think the die would live after that. It going though the feed to the die and it should clog it up. To me it sounds like some one at the mint is playing around again.
Just my thoughts yours daryl
It show the highly trained people at PCGS are. Yes the nail would be cut into thirds. And it would never go though the feed to the die. Them grading it shows that they have no ideal what they are doing. And everything they do is questionable . And you get to pay for it. They have lost any creditably.
I'm totally agree with you Phil. I don't have any slabbed coin and I will never have one.
I can smoothly understand that some people like such oddities (I mean the nail-error-coin, not the slabbed coins) and even collect them, but it goes beyond my comprehension that a "famous" coin certifying company grades this.
But in the past we already had some discussions about those certifying companies. Their only intention is to squeeze money out of the pockets of collectors.
Yes I think Phil is right. I have only one coin I think of sending in. But have never done it . It is a US 2 cent coin. What is pressed only on one side. It is the right material, Weight, and dia. But the blank side is flat. I believe my grandpa gave it to me. So have no ideal how old it is. But I don't think it is an error, now. But a die test. So it not really a coin. But would like to know.
but in same time it seems like some people are ready to pay over 10000 dollars for it wow 
