placed an opening bid on a few items last week to watch em.. mostly a few Stacks W 57th slabs (just wanted one from one of these big collections lol) Well I got a big surprise this morning, One of those opening bid won.. 2 yes 2 an H10 and dime for $20 each 1871 and 1891... Even with "Genuine" grades I'm a very happy camper lol...
no no 2 for 40 but even at $20 each i stole em May have worded my 1st post a lil sloppy... was a $38 opening bid for the 2
LOL, I'll be damned, didn't even notice that, thought both were h10s when i placed the bid... so ok an h10 and a seated dime for 20 each lol...
In effect, you bought the holders, not the coins, because at $20 each you have barely covered the cost of having them graded!
He did say he wanted them for the labels, and you cannot get a label without the coin being graded and in a slab. The fact that the grade came back as Genuine (which sounds exactly like “no grade assigned”) does not mean they weren’t “graded” - they just were not assigned a grade. For me, getting a coin with a Details or Genuine grade often leads to it being cracked out and put into a smaller holder that I prefer. But that’s not what @mrweaseluv said he was after. I see it that he paid $20 for someone to have the coin graded, got a holder with a label he wanted, and now, in effect, has two free coins in addition.
@RonSanderson Ron pretty much has it right... In this case I was after the plastic more then the coin. I also been looking for a few of the other "famous hoard" labels. Again not so much for the coin or even the plastic but for the bit of history that such a label adds
When you include the shipping cost $20 normally wouldn't cover it, but I'm sure Stacks got a special deal.
