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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1008935, member: 13650&quot;]I usually buy NGC slabbed stuff.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;m just paranoid, but I always look them over real well if the actual coin can&#039;t be verified by the picture they have on their website.&nbsp; I always worry about tampered with slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Now I know this is out there but I bought a 1945-P MS-66 war nickel for my US type set.&nbsp; The pics weren&#039;t the best.&nbsp;&nbsp; The guy said there was some light sanding/buffing marks on the back of the slab.&nbsp; Which, I&nbsp; could see and didn&#039;t care because I planned on breaking this one out for the album and saving the label.&nbsp; &nbsp; I normally want problem free slabs.&nbsp; (Have had problems in the past with beat up slabs.)&nbsp; I figured, I may as well take the beat up slab out of circulation and use the nice coin inside for the album. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Anyway, I got it.&nbsp;&nbsp; No picture in NGC&#039;s database but the serial # matched the coin and grade.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the slab, there&#039;s usually just one or two points that they seal on the edge.&nbsp; On this one, both upper right corners have that rough white stuff and the center, as well as the bottom left corner and the center of the bottom.&nbsp; I also wonder if the &quot;buffing&quot; it got on the back which took off some of the hologram, wasn&#039;t to get a glue spot/fingerprint off??&nbsp; I suppose it could have been a dealer sticker.&nbsp;&nbsp; Anybody know if NGC has a standardized sealing method??</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s definitely a high grade nickel in the slab.&nbsp; But there&#039;s a very fine, 1.5 mm scratch in the field right behind Jefferson&#039;s head.&nbsp;&nbsp; Could it possibly get a MS-66 with a mark like that in the field?&nbsp;&nbsp; I was not expecting it&nbsp; and you could not tell in the picture.&nbsp;&nbsp; No returns accepted by the seller.&nbsp;&nbsp; I decided to risk it.&nbsp; &nbsp; I have not left feedback over this issue, or contacted the seller yet.&nbsp;&nbsp; Also have not cracked it out yet.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It seems like something that could have been so simple.&nbsp; I looked at war nickels for a long time trying to pick out a problem free one.&nbsp;&nbsp; I didn&#039;t want to take one out of my BU set.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m going to use it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I just wanted to see what you guys thought.&nbsp; Am I blowing this out of proportion?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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