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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3528886, member: 56859&quot;]Who is the auction house?</p><p><br /></p><p>I would contact them and see if they will refund you.&nbsp; My experience with a few returns is that auction houses want happy customers, within reason.&nbsp; Tooling <i>should</i> be disclosed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the NGC guys saw these coins in hand and all we have are small images, they are in a better position to make the call (not infallible but certainly better than strangers on a coin forum looking at inadequate images).</p><p><br /></p><p>You won&#039;t find a large number of slab supporters here.&nbsp; At best, ancient coin collectors on this forum are ambivalent and at worst... you&#039;ll get an earful.&nbsp; Use the search function to read more about opinions on slabbing.&nbsp; There is sometimes a role for it but in general, it seems to mostly be a service aimed at luring modern coin collectors to ancients, and in its worse sense turning ancient coins into the same lifeless commodities as modern entombed coins and relieving new ancient coin collectors of the pesky task of learning how to evaluate ancient coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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