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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 329147, member: 4552"]Meanwhile back to the original post. For one thing if you insist on purchasing coins from ebay, expect anything. Regardless of what anyone may say or think, slabs can be opened and the coin replaced and then resealed. If that is the case you could have a slab stating MS70 with a coin in VG8. I saw one like that at a coin show where someone did it for a joke. I could not see how it was opened. I suggest you start going to coin shows if available. If not only purchase a coin you can see in person or accept you may receive anthing. As to a coin in a slab selling for a dollar or there abouts, really common. Many people just have to have a coin in a slab and pay for that. Then when that coin becomes available due to many reasons, dealers leave it in the slab but full well know they will not get back the cost someone paid for that slab. Such slabs appear when someone dies, is desperate for cash,  robberies, etc. If not broken out, the slabbed coin ends up for sale for whatever anyone can get for them. I suggest you go or try to go to coin shows and you'll see this all the time.[/QUOTE]