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<p>[QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1915271, member: 15929"]AND, no guarantees that the new slab wont have a scratch on it. I have received them directly from PCGS with scratches on the slabs and quite frankly, it's irritating. </p><p><br /></p><p>BUT, its on the slab and not the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture this, you show your pretty coins to your children or grandchildren. One of them accidently drops the slab or mishandles the slab and it gets a scratch.</p><p><br /></p><p>All the effort to reslab the coin because it was scratched during the auction sale goes right out the window.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, a scratch on a slab is no biggie and if folks are THAT obsessed with perfection that a naturally occurring and inevitable event happens to a slab then maybe they should reconsider exactly what it is they are looking for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, this doesn't even bring in to account that PR70DCAM First Strike Gold Eagles are darned near a dime a dozen. Of the 1,169 graded as First Strike $50 Gold Eagles by PCGS, 1,014 are PR70 DCAM!</p><p><br /></p><p>In a nutshell, if you don't like either of those offered by Heritage then there's 1,012 others to choose from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1915271, member: 15929"]AND, no guarantees that the new slab wont have a scratch on it. I have received them directly from PCGS with scratches on the slabs and quite frankly, it's irritating. BUT, its on the slab and not the coin. Picture this, you show your pretty coins to your children or grandchildren. One of them accidently drops the slab or mishandles the slab and it gets a scratch. All the effort to reslab the coin because it was scratched during the auction sale goes right out the window. IMO, a scratch on a slab is no biggie and if folks are THAT obsessed with perfection that a naturally occurring and inevitable event happens to a slab then maybe they should reconsider exactly what it is they are looking for. Of course, this doesn't even bring in to account that PR70DCAM First Strike Gold Eagles are darned near a dime a dozen. Of the 1,169 graded as First Strike $50 Gold Eagles by PCGS, 1,014 are PR70 DCAM! In a nutshell, if you don't like either of those offered by Heritage then there's 1,012 others to choose from.[/QUOTE]
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