PCGS slab with sticker over the top?

Unicorn · July 29, 2013, 05:51:52 PM

Robster, I don't think it's the Shane you're thinking of (CCF), although I think he may have a surname starting with the same initial, perhaps even the same surname.

Enworb would probably be able to confirm that it's not the CCF Shane though.

(Long way from Stanthorpe to Wauchope)

enworb · July 29, 2013, 06:08:54 PM

Its another shane that mos people would be aware of.

markn · July 29, 2013, 06:22:31 PM

Quote from: 'enworb' pid='23257' dateline='1375087134'Its another shane that mos people would be aware of.

How do you know it's another Shane? He's got the same name.

accumulator · July 29, 2013, 06:24:07 PM

Quote from: 'enworb' pid='23257' dateline='1375087134'Its another shane that mos people would be aware of.

:huh: Enlighten me please.

Unicorn · July 29, 2013, 06:26:32 PM

Just a thought .....

I don't think CCF Shane would be sending his coins off to the US for slabbing if he was a part of APCGS, but rather he'd be flogging his own stuff, especially on CCF.

markn · July 29, 2013, 06:27:39 PM

Quote from: 'accumulator' pid='23260' dateline='1375088047'
Quote from: 'enworb' pid='23257' dateline='1375087134'Its another shane that mos people would be aware of.

:huh: Enlighten me please.

Shane Williams. The shanew over on CCF that has an extremely high opinion of the size of his ..... uhhh .......error collection is a Shane Williams. The person who owns the domain name www.apcgs.com.au is also a Shane Williams. The person selling the slab this thread is talking about is also a Shane. They may or may not be the same person.

markn · July 29, 2013, 06:28:24 PM

Quote from: 'Unicorn' pid='23261' dateline='1375088192'Just a thought .....

I don't think CCF Shane would be sending his coins of to the US for slabbing if he was a part of APCGS, but rather he'd be flogging his own stuff, especially on CCF.

Someone has already tried spamming the hell out of CCF about APCGS with a few different identities. They all got banned.

Robster · July 29, 2013, 06:35:34 PM

I just recall him saying he had the funds to back an Aussie T.P.G. if he could find a partner.! (On another forum about 12 months ago.)
I have been away for a couple of days and have been busy catching up with all the stuff that has been happening (add quote- "like sands through the hourglass".) "You hang up, no- You hang up, no- You hang up.!!:kez_15:

Unicorn · July 29, 2013, 06:41:12 PM

Yes Robster, you're correct with that, it's in the thread
http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=131879&whichpage=1

Mark, yes I can remember something like that happening.

I pretty sure Enworb's met him in person, hence I was pretty sure he'd be on the money. If he was a TPG then I don't think he'd have asked so many of the grading / buying questions as he has.

Though, never say never I suppose, could have fooled us all (well me at least).

QuoteYou hang up, no- You hang up, no- You hang up.!!

:laugh2::laugh2::laugh2::laugh2:
I bet Stefano is still alive ..........

markn · July 29, 2013, 06:47:12 PM

Quote from: 'Unicorn' pid='23268' dateline='1375089072'If he was a TPG then I don't think he'd have asked so many of the grading / buying questions as he has.

OK. So according to shanew on the CCF forum he bought a prototype pre-decimal note printing plate from an eBay auction. When Tony James wrote about the same plate owned by the same Shane Williams apparently he'd found it somewhere else. Somewhere that sounded a lot more interesting that simply buying it off of eBay.

Perhaps it's an honest mistake. Perhaps it isn't.

Unicorn · July 29, 2013, 07:10:30 PM

Yes Mark, I read on a thread that the story of the plate was not the same in the article as opposed to the CCF story. When I read that was the case, I thought perhaps the article story may have been the story of from whom Shane bought it, rather than Shane's story. (I haven't read the article so forgive my ignorance).

markn · July 29, 2013, 07:24:44 PM

Quote from: 'Unicorn' pid='23272' dateline='1375090830'Yes Mark, I read on a thread that the story of the plate was not the same in the article as opposed to the CCF story. When I read that was the case, I thought perhaps the article story may have been the story of from whom Shane bought it, rather than Shane's story. (I haven't read the article so forgive my ignorance).

OK so let's add a pre-decimal printing plate found in a garage sale. A pre-decimal printing printing plate found on eBay. And don't forget the solid gold dollar coin one of his sons found in coins they withdrew from the bank. This guy is about the luckiest man alive.

Perhaps I am coming off bitter and twisted but in all my years I've never known someone to have so much "luck".:kez_11:

Unicorn · July 29, 2013, 07:40:14 PM

Lucky ..... yes indeed and he didn't mind playing games with us at times either ........ if I recall correctly you prompted him once to .... come out with it ..... instead of beating around the bush.

PS: I don't think you're bitter or twisted, just rational and not gullable.

markn · July 29, 2013, 07:50:37 PM

Oh geez it just gets better. I haven't looked at CCF for a while but I just ducked over there and found this.

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=154374

Mr Lucky has found a gold sovereign in an old pilots cap. Honestly, you couldn't make these stories up......

Unicorn · July 29, 2013, 09:21:58 PM

Mark, you are really ..... really starting to convince me ...........
camera at the ready ..... forceps, scalpel ..... delivering the baby ...... hang on I know it might be close to the right date, but I thought it was a boy (George)! ..... Boy George!!!! Karmacomedian!!!

I know that one pair of my great, great, grandparents came out from England in 1859 on the Palmyra and the only money they had was 10 sovereigns sewn into his belt for safekeeping. Cost them a pound each for the trip.

Damn, why did I have to know that ...... now the sovereign discovery almost sounds plausible.