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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1940224, member: 4373&quot;]To clear a few assumptions, I&#039;ll continue. </p><p><br /></p><p>1) These were not bargain coins. Chinese and Russian coins and I paid good money on them. Definitely above catalog value. </p><p><br /></p><p>2) On the matter of slabs - I think there seems to be a huge assumption (or deception) that there are plenty of such coins available including in slabs. I have been collecting rather obscure coins and these coins rarely appear in the market. I grabbed the opportunity when I saw them available for sale. Bear in mind that these are coins that I have looked for at least five to TEN years. If you said that I should have waited until a slab appeared, I guess I probably wouldn&#039;t see another one any time soon. Maybe everyone has different level of patience. </p><p><br /></p><p>3) If these were in a slab and if these are in counterfeit slabs, I suspect it would have been a lot harder for me to see tellsigns.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, this is not a debate about slabs, bargains, sellers etc but it&#039;s more about how one should always keep ahead of the counterfeit game. You might want to mitigate the risk by assuming the slab is genuine, paying good money, believing in a good seller&#039;s reputution but ultimately, it&#039;s your own skills in identifying counterfeits that count the most. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would post the photos of them but will hold off until the investigation for them is over. Would rather not jinx it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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