besides White Castle hamburgers () what exactly is a slider? I have seem it advertised to be good as well as bad
I interpret it as a coin that is MS but with some signs of wear from contact with other coins or from the way it was stored rather than from circulation so it still counts as MS instead of AU in the eyes of some people.
I've always seen a slider as a very high AU coin that is just *almost* MS, but still has enough wear (due to album wear or mishandling, but maybe not true circulation) to qualify as AU.
for me the coin needs to be choice Au usually AU-58. I believe and I'm sure if I am wrong I'll get corrected, the term slider is in reference to the wear or marks that a coin will get as it is pushed acrossed a counter. Usually a new coin in a register that is used in a transaction and gets slid across the counter. Sounds good to me
They call it slider because friction marks that appear to be from sliding on a bar or counter cause it to not be MS
If you are up for a challenge... ...try to put together a slider set of Morgans or lincolns. Or even a type set. It has been my experience that finding sliders is more difficult than finding MS specimens for some dates/mm's.
You'd probably find more quarters that are sliders than anything else than. Well on second thought playing quarters probably won't give the coin the same desired effect as just sliding it around the bar.
