CGC 10.0 now "Gem Mint"

[MonumentalCo]

According to the new issue of CBG the name of a CGC 10.0 will soon be "Gem Mint" instead of just mint.

[Rickdogg]

Darth needs to get his books reholdered for this

[blowout]

That was also the description noted in the new Overstreet grading guide.

Something had to be done to distinguish 9.9 from 10.0.

 

Personally I think the name is pretty lame though, how about 'utter perfection (in our opinion)'

[Darthdiesel]

Darth needs to get his books reholdered for this

 

Inasmuch as other sellers on ebay do, I'll just crack open the slabs myself and generate my own "Gem Mint" label

 

 

[aardvark88]

9.9 = Gem - minus?

[ArnoldTBlumberg]

Contrary to what some people have written about the situation, this was many months in the deciding back in the summer of 2002, with people polled throughout the entire comic book collecting community, including many on these boards and elsewhere. It came down to Pristine Mint or Gem Mint, and most people - myself included - believed that Pristine Mint has been so misused over the decades that it would have lacked the kind of weight it needed, whereas Gem Mint was an already established term for the top of a scale in coins, where comics got their terminology anyway. Seemed logical.

 

Arnold

[Guest]

I prefer Pristine Mint myself.......oh well

[blowout]

Thanks for the explaination Arnold. Its nice to know that there is at least some grading criteria shared by Overstreet and CGC.

[Bonds25]

I prefer "prestine mint".

[Rickdogg]

ROFL

[Guest]

Not that again!

[ArnoldTBlumberg]

Oh yeah, and one other thing - again, contrary to what some people have written in other printed venues - I didn't pick "Gem Mint" because it sounded like "Gemstone." Look it up - the Gem Mint term has been around for a very long time. So you can put down your Big Book of Conspiracies and go back to looking for the guy on the grassy knoll. Sheesh.

 

Arnold

[murph0]

Let's just call 10.0's "flawless"

 

Brian

[Bugaboo-migration]

I guess we should just be glad they didn't call it "Bo Derek".

 

It's hard to be a perfect 10 anymore when you're 50 or 60 years old.

[ArnoldTBlumberg]

That would be "Charlize Theron" actually, but it would probably crowd the CGC labels.

[COI]

9.9 should be "Minty" and 10 should be "Mint".

[hammer-migration]

Dungeon, Is your new Avatar a talking Hot-water heater???

[CosmicBob]

Uh, no, it would be Catherine Zeta-Jones, actually. Or possibly Eliza Dushku.

[Bugaboo-migration]

Would this fit on the CGC labels?

 

[COI]

Might I add; Josie Moran 10, Ali Landry 10, and Kristen Kreuk 10.