Switching to Slabs!

I have no problem with a do it yourself slab, but the TPG slabs are a no no for me.

 

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I see no problem at all with these slabs. It's just another storage arraignment. With a small collection this is a fun way to store coins, but when you have a large collection I think it may take up too much room. Otherwise I would do the same I think

 

That is why I tell people to buy copper coins that are toned "brown" as they can have many pretty colors. They are cheaper, and you do not have to worry about them changing from "red."

I don't. I just like my coins pretty. Interesting stories are always a big plus.

Whoops! Then I am collecting modern coins wrong. Gotta pay for school and this hobby somehow.

 

I showed a moderns dealer one of my Chinese spades with lovely patina, and he thought it was so damaged and corroded. It took a while to convince him that it was actually a positive thing to have on coins that old.

 

My thoughts exactly. It's the plastic tombs I can't stand. The 'do it yourself' slabs conceptually are really no different than flips.

 

I wonder...are there any ancients that are "Red" or "Red-Brown"?

 

Exactly!

 

Yes. There is a patina called "Syrian Red". It is a deposit left by the red sands in that area. They can be really pretty. Example:

MAXIMIANUS
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP C M AVR VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: IOV ET HERCV CONSER AVGG, Jupiter standing right holding sceptre & orb facing Hercules standing left holding Victory & club, crescent S in lower centre, XXI dot in ex.
Struck at Antioch 286-95 AD
4.3g, 22mm
RIC 622

 

As a subscribe to coin world, I get a discount on their reusable slabs called Amos Advantage.. I like using them for all the reasons stated above, plus it lets me store them in the boxes meant for slabbed coins. Only disadvantage? As a person who is not as deep into ancients as quite a few of the members of this forum are, I can't determine to any degree of certainty if the coin is genuine, I have to rely on the honesty of the person who has sold me the coin. Before I sent the '55 doubled die (counterfeit) and '72 doubled die Lincolns I kept them in the Amos Slabs. I had the '55 for years, everyone who saw it never questioned it's authenticity, but it was counterfeit. The '72 was fine.


Came out MS62 Brown.

 

While I don't have a picture of my coins in their QuickSlabs, here are the obverse and reverse labels that I use:



For coins where the reverse is at 6H orientation relative to the obverse, I put the reverse label in "upside down" so it's readable when the reverse is properly oriented.

 

Sure. Just look at this new thread:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/enamored-fixated-enthralled.301808/

 

I did not know it was called Syrian Red patina, thank you for the info.

I have one that is that same patina...


RI Diocletian Ӕ Quinarius 1.46g 16mm Rome AD 284-305 IOVI CONSERVAT AVGG, Jupiter stndng thunderbolt sceptre RARE RIC 193

 

OK, OK, I forgot about the comedians here...ha ha