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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1920159, member: 19463"]Nice coins - some exceptional. The photos are what you expect considering you are shooting through plastic and part of each coin is concealed by fingers. </p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree with Bing on breaking them out of the slabs. You paid a lot of money for those slabs and will recoup it only if you sell to someone who agrees with you regarding their value when you lose interest. Certainly neither Bing nor I would have any of these in our collections as they are but it would make more sense to sell these to another slab fan and buy similar coins from a trustworthy dealer who knows enough about the coins to sell raw. None of these coins are particularly rare so you could duplicate them within reason if you ever decide to be a coin fondler like me. </p><p><br /></p><p>I find the last one most interesting. My similar raw and identified Tabaristan sold for $29 which is well under the cost of a slab. I assume these bulk slabs without full grading or ID are cheaper but still it seems more sensible to have slabs on coins worth 10x the cost of encapsulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1920159, member: 19463"]Nice coins - some exceptional. The photos are what you expect considering you are shooting through plastic and part of each coin is concealed by fingers. I disagree with Bing on breaking them out of the slabs. You paid a lot of money for those slabs and will recoup it only if you sell to someone who agrees with you regarding their value when you lose interest. Certainly neither Bing nor I would have any of these in our collections as they are but it would make more sense to sell these to another slab fan and buy similar coins from a trustworthy dealer who knows enough about the coins to sell raw. None of these coins are particularly rare so you could duplicate them within reason if you ever decide to be a coin fondler like me. I find the last one most interesting. My similar raw and identified Tabaristan sold for $29 which is well under the cost of a slab. I assume these bulk slabs without full grading or ID are cheaper but still it seems more sensible to have slabs on coins worth 10x the cost of encapsulation.[/QUOTE]
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