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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 7804259, member: 24754&quot;]What I was attempting to get at in this thread wasn&#039;t about profit strategies and so forth, as I never purchase coins with the intent of selling them (these sales happened due to unintended circumstances). Nor was it intended to investigate sale platform strategies with respect to slabbed vs raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, if I had purchased raw coins from Heritage and subsequently sold them on Ebay 2 weeks later with this type of price differential, then I would be asking the same questions, which pertain to why the systematic price differential exists?</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope that the paragraph above gets the general point across with respect to the intentions of this thread, but it&#039;s not exactly true because the slabbed/raw issue does actually factor into my evaluation to some extent. I would expect Heritage to garner more trust than sellers on Ebay, therefore, a price differential should be expected for raw coins. However, with slabs, neither Heritage nor Ebay sellers are really factored into the risk evaluation, so I find it surprising that this type of differential would exist under those circumstances.</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, the questions do not pertain to the actual prices paid, or the value of the plastic, but to the % difference in prices on the platforms.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The photos are high resolution, and if you really want to have a closer look, then clicking on the photo will take you to an interface that allows you to zoom in on the coin. It&#039;s not as good as a pre-zoomed photo, but it is pretty good.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Totally agree. I often wonder why NGC Ancients didn&#039;t just bite the bullet initially and derive a new grading system for ancient coins. If they intended to use the entire spectrum, then XF, AU, and MS for ancients could never actually mean the same thing as they do for moderns. If they are not going to mean the same thing, then why use the same system?</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean, really, what does MS mean for a coin that was hammered and buried 2000 years ago?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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