Broken Slab - I've been had!

Those slabs are perfectly normal, IMO.

 

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I thoought most top 2 tpgs slabs would break if tampered with , I guess with a lazer though .
rzage

 

Le , where's the abrasion ?
Rusty:thumb:

 

We're talking about the slab that Carl mentioned in his post above. Not the one in the pics from the first post of this thread.

 

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also a nick in the hair above the ear.

 

Would like to but then many people on this forum may well go to those coin shows and also know that dealer. Then they would mention to him that I am advertising what he did. Bad enough to mention the type of coins since not to many would do the same with the same coins.

 

How would divulging the TPG name lead anyone to know which dealer did this exactly?

 

HMMM. Now that is something I didn't think of. I've tried asking the dealer how he did that but he just smiles at me. I too wondered how this has been happening. Resealing would be simple but opening without damage takes practice and/or the right equipment.

 

That's uncollectible better send it right to me for proper disposal .
Rusty

 

Again, I was about to ask the same thing. No one is asking for the dealer's name. Just what kind of slab it was.

 

What am I missing here?

Am I missing something here? 10 cents worth of plastic and 2000 ASE - were they not around $6 then? I think the roll price was $135 and ICG slab for heavens sake.
Well I'm not making light of your question but who cares?
Break it out and sell it now for silver and move on to the next coin.
An ICG slab is worth nothing - I'm not sure why (at that time) anyone in their right mind would have spent the amount of time to switch it with a lessor graded coin and ICG could just as easily gave it a MS-71 for all we know - move on to the next coin.
All this talk over plastic just makes me sad.
Also I tried and true way to remove slabs is just tapping them lightly with a cloth covering around the outside seam and sooner of later the slab will just come apart in often in 2 perfect half's.
ICG, NGC, ABC, QUR, TUV, - it all just wears me out.
Slabs are an insult to the coin collecting.

 

ICG is not that bad. I like their grading.

 

I can think of only one way - it is the dealers grading company.

 

Thats interesting. But if it was the dealer's grading company he could just slab the wrong coin himself. No tampering would be neccessary. lol.

 

That slab is fine - It is extruded plastic from the sonic sealing process.
You will see it in NGC and PCGS slabs also but not as often as they take more care in the 'final' product then lower teired TPG's

 

I've examined all my slabs and I think someone broke into all of them and replaced each coin with a one grade lower coin. All of this while I slept.