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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 5167603, member: 96746&quot;]Hammered coins and slabbing don&#039;t mix well. There seems to be a predominantly American desire to give everything an absolute number - and you can&#039;t with hammered because there are just too many variables. Double striking happens more often than not. Sometimes the detail is on flan, at others not. Sometimes you get flat areas on an otherwise well struck up coin. When all this goes into a slab you often find the number tail wags the dog. A Charles I shilling in Goldberg made $1200 because it was in a 62 slab. Over here it would have been in the trays at £100-150 max because it wasn&#039;t a particularly good example of a typically poorly struck issue. Basically, you are just as well off raw as slabbed, with the added bonus of it usually being cheaper. Buying raw is no different to buying the coin and not the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe there is a bit more gold to come from the Chris Comber collection in Baldwins St. James&#039;s if you want anything of Elizabeth I. He was the right collector for the material you want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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