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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2420694, member: 19463&quot;]Certainly the coin is worth more in an error NGC slab than it is out.&nbsp; I have one error slab just to show people who think plastic is perfect but mine is not the great NGC.&nbsp; Certainly they would fix it for free.&nbsp; They should be willing to buy it for $1000 because it shows that their entire operation is not as professional as they want you to believe.&nbsp; The coin in that slab is not anything a Septimius specialist would collect.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe not.&nbsp; A local dealer showed me a pile of coins NGC had returned to him for failing their standards.&nbsp; They included fakes, unable to determine and bronze disease coins.&nbsp; I asked him why he would send some of the garbage I saw to be slabbed and he replied that his price was nowhere near their advertised retail.&nbsp; I take that to mean that someone sent them 10,000 junk coins and they threw them into generic slabs as fast as their fingers could fly.&nbsp; I would like to think that David Vagi could tell a Septimius from a Caracalla at twenty paces and that he would hire people with similar skills for the real work but this coin is a demonstration of the need to buy the coin and protect yourselves from accidental or intentional incompetance.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That is a fact.&nbsp; When you set up a business and hire employees to work in your name you are saying that have taken steps to insure those employees are working to a standard acceptable to you.&nbsp; It does not matter whether the job is flipping burgers or authenticating coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; The incompetence does not belong to the new hire but the manager/owner who did not care enough to guard against stupidity perpetrated in the name of the business.&nbsp; We regularly see some person of &#039;fame&#039; held accountable for tweets Twittered by their &#039;Twiddle-Dumb&#039;.&nbsp; I can not imagine staking my reputation on the activities of people I did not and could not trust to represent me properly.&nbsp; Are there few enough people out there looking for a job (at minimum wage?) separating the Caracalla from the Septimius that we have to hire those incapable of the task?&nbsp; Are we asking them to process a thousand coins in the time more appropriate for ten so we can grow our business by offering super discounts to bulk customers?&nbsp; I apologize to any of you that I have led astray by giving incorrect information on a coin.&nbsp; I offered no warranty and you got what you paid for.&nbsp; If you really wanted a high value answer, you could have sent the coin off to the slabbers, whether you are a $40 or a $.40 customer, and got a professional opinion.&nbsp; Right?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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