Grade Wars- Attack of the Slabs

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Sign me up for VCR repair!

 

I still have a VCR and a couple of VCR tapes.

 

I've heard legends about this "VCR" machine that people used in the olden days.

 

Definition: "Good Old Days"
A time when this list talked about coins, not plastic.

 

=> you're probably kidding, right?



Ahaha, you got me ... I took you seriously for a sec

 

Really nice meeting you as well. Sorry we didn't get to chat much. I was too busy selecting one raw & one slabbed ancient at the show.

I bought a raw crocodile coin with Augustus & Agrippa. I am so stoked! It has been on the want list ever since I was introduced to the coin at CT. Pictures & a thread will be posted folks. I think the beauty of this AE coin is going to be difficult to capture in a photo.

The slabbed coin purchased at the show is an upgrade for my Seleucid Philip I Tetradrachm. It just looked sooooooo much more attractive than my original coin. The grade on the slab is XF+ 5/5. No Duh. It is prettier than my original Philip I. Its in an edge view holder & weighs 15.67 grams according to NGC.

OMG, there is a photo online at NGC: http://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/index.aspx?CertNumber=4184514-001

 

Not that it matters to anyone here, but has anyone noticed I haven't taken part in this discussion nor do I plan to.

 

Perhaps this is as good a time as any to announce that Saturday I sold off my last slabed US coin. I went from coming here over 3 weeks ago after purchasing a slabed ancient coin and swearing I would never renounce slabs (even with ancient coins), to purchasing my first raw ancient coin a day later, to swearing off of modern coins and selling my precious slabs off only 3 weeks after my pronouncement that I would never forgo slabs. That escalated quickly.

There is a powerful force at work in this forum. I guess it's true what they say...once you buy ancient coins, you never go back.

 

Never is a long, long time. I still enjoy the modern coins I bought or found in circulation over the last 50 years. I bought half a dozen in the last five years. There is another difference in the way various people collect. Some of us enjoy the buying and selling and count as 'mine' all the coins ever owned. Others of us buy with the intention of owing that coin for the rest of our life feeling guilty when we let something go. Some dealers point out correctly that they get to handle and enjoy thousands of coins they could never make permanently theirs. I could never be a dealer since you can't make a living not selling coins. Years ago I was told David Sear does not collect coins. Has that changed?

 

So true.........also, never say never when it comes to collecting.

 

If only Sally Strutters would give up on one of her plates of food once a day they could feed a dozen villages for a year.

 

Poor Sally. The subject of much abuse. I'm sorry I mentioned it.