PR: Collectors Universe Purchases Chinese Mint
Ken Barr
news.announce.important.numismatics newsgroup:
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Newport Beach, CA, April 1, 2010 (API) -- COLLECTORS UNIVERSE
PURCHASES CHINESE MINT
Collectors Universe (NASDAQ: CLCT), the parent company of the
Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS), Professional Sports
Authenticator (PSA), autograph authentication company PSA/DNA
Authentication Services (PSA/DNA), Professional Stamp Experts (PSE)
and the American Nasal Hair Grading Service (ANHGS), announced before
the opening bell on Wall Street this morning that it has purchased the
Bejing, China based Whang Hang Low Mint.
David Hall, President of CLCT, stated that "We have conducted an
exhaustive study of all the Chinese mints producing counterfeit United
States coins and counterfeit PCGS holders, and determined that Whang
Hang Low was clearly the best of this group. We look forward to
integrating their product line into the CLCT family, organized as a
wholly owned subsidiary called WHL Mint Inc gMbH Ltd Pty Cie. The
PCGS Registry Set requirements will immediately change to include the
WHL Mint products which the United States Mint was either unable or
unwilling to produce, such as 1921-D Lincoln cents, 1932 P, D and S
Buffalo nickels and 1933 P, D and S Washington quarters, among other
coins. We will also be adding a counterfeir fourth-party
certification service sticker to all WHL Mint products, a green oval
sticker with one letter added to the end of the name of a well-known
current fourth-party service. These CACA stickers will serve to
definitively certify the enclosed coin as being a genuine WHL Mint
counterfeit housed in a genuine counterfeit PCGS slab".
Mark Salzberg, President of PCGS competitor Numismatic Guaranty
Corporation (NGC) was contacted for his comments on this acquisition
and replied "No comment ... other than that we do not agree that Whang
Hang Low Mint is the best counterfeit Chinese mint, and that, by the
way, NGC will have a major announcement in the next day or two".
The United States Treasury Department's Secret Service was also
contacted for comments, to which they replied "No comment ... we're a
SECRET SERVICE, dammit, so how did you even get this phone number?"
gogu
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Bob
Very funny!
mazorj
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Nicely done, Ken. It would be even scarier - and almost credible - if it
had been the other way around with the Chinese taking over TPGs. Who knows,
that might even be the topical buzz for some future April Fool's Day.
Thanks for the witty satire. :-D
- mazorj
"Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting
behind it."
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"In times like these it is difficult not to write satire."
- Juvenal