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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 7937679, member: 105571&quot;]I have never seen a good reason to leave the auction house stickers on the slab and a couple of good reasons to remove them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My reasons for leaving stickers on - None.</p><p>My reasons for removing stickers - Adhesive issues; blocking slab hologram; not suitable for ID&#039;ing because nothing guarantees that duplicate lot numbers won&#039;t appear; and finally, I hate providing free advertising on what I own be it cars, shirts or coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do, however, always record in my database the auction house, date of auction, auction number, lot number, hammer price, BP, S&amp;H, ancillary costs, slab certification number, die marriage, rarity and any other information that I think can or might be needed for any of the potential uses of the data.&nbsp; This written data complements all the photographic recordings I make which consists of the auction house photos, my photos of slab and close-ups plus photos used in die variety identification and die state markers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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